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This article is based on a spontaneous insightful dialogue with Christian Wagley, Costal Organizer Florida-Alabama, working with Healthy Gulf and 350Pensacola.  These thoughts are part of the reflection process as I listen to Christian and allow a deeper consideration of how we teach through climate change, the opportunity for fostering “Learning, Diversity and Urban Thinking”. Sustainable …

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As part of my Humphrey Fellowship during the 2023/2024 academic year, I am “imaging” a University of Teachers: a model for lifelong teacher training that supports the inner goals process as a foundation for teaching and learning with 21st-century competencies. The key word is imagining. On imagining..   Imagination: is more important than knowledge. Knowldge is …

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Based on the reflection and collective dialogue with teachers and students at Lizdeika Highschool, in Radviliškis Lithuania, I am thanking the Lithuanian team of teachers, vice principal, and principal, that made our learning there possible and for their innovation context. I was invited together with teachers and students from Turkey, Italy, Portugal, and Romania to …

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STEAM- as New ways of learning, allowing learning relations to be visible; different levels of emotions will be possible dwelling (pondering), enchantment, and caring. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.” Rumi Art in STEAM is very important, art invites the many different possible ways in which to approach …

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Hygiology is the science of preserving health, and care to preserve; the act of keeping from destruction, decay, or any ill. The state of being preserved, looking at how something has survived can be perceived as well-being, as resilience. The capacity of the system to adapt, ideas from “Teaching to transgress” by the amazing bell …

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We are living in the nature, without the nature we don’t have our culture.” Heli Aikio, teacher, Sámi musician artist By Integrative Practices, as part of 21st-century classrooms, we mean the ability to hold, teach, be, and do with students learning. During a time of “wicked problems”, rapid paradigm shift, where the teachers via the …

Integrative Practices- how we step and show up in the classroom matters! Read More »

This article is more than any, an invitation for you to practice imagination and imaginary, almost as using VR/AR to step into, and build or deconstruct what we bring with us in terms of pedagogies, or expectations around new learning spaces. I heard the words “future-proof spaces” from Tiina Otala, my guest with this article. …

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With 21st-century education, we might have different visions (ideals), yet they might share a common core, like: “citizens able to make democratic decisions, with respect to humans and more than human rights”. To have the ability to “ make democratic decisions” means we actually continuously practice making sense of the world around us, clarifying who …

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I first came in contact with this tool in Turkey, Izmir, meeting the expert guests of the Erasmus KA2 project on Emotions & Robotics. I want to offer credit to their work, their dedication, and their research effort.  There was an important experience in which once more it revealed: when it comes to digitalization, we …

Digital storytelling- integrative learning for leadership in the class Read More »

“Something old something new, something borrowed something blue”- how to prepare for new learning ways and space What is a learning environment? I believe is a space “where you can sense the future”. A space in which what one learns (through learning relations) will be accessible and upscaled in everyday life situations – for work …

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