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| The majority of my work falls under what is known globally as "extension", which lies between teaching and public outreach. Extension works long-term with one or more communities to co-develop teaching, research, and professional development activities that address that community's needs, often working outside a formal classroom and forming a longer term connection with the audience than typical public outreach activities (which tend to be one-off). This work is embodied in my nonprofit Science Voices. | ||
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Greenworks
Greenworks is a global environmental stewardship network I am developing to help teachers, students, and communities improve the ways they use science to address environmental challenges through project-based learning. The program has three components: 1) a project design curriculum to help teachers improve project-based teaching and help students develop high-quality projects, 2) extension grants that help teachers develop extension partnerships with local communities, and 3) an exchange program to bring students to international communities to co-develop environmental stewardship projects. This project works with communities in Vale do Ribeira in southeast Brazil, the Carpathian Mountains in western Ukraine, island communities near Ternate in eastern Indonesia, the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas, USA, and community colleges in rural California, USA. | ||
 Guapiruvu, Brazil |
 Ternate, Indonesia |
 St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands |
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Agavi
Agavi is an adaptive learning platform designed for smartphones that enables teachers to build innovative new experiences for their students. Teachers will be able to create non-linear activities, track where their students are and how they're progressing in an activity, and interface with the real world via location and sensors to allow for novel activities. This project is greatly informed by my work on developing the Habitable Worlds online astrobiology course at Arizona State University from 2010-2018. I was inspired by how innovative technology allowed me to teach in ways I've never been able to before, but disappointed in how the complexity of the technology and insularity of the teams that used it prevented it from having a bigger impact. Agavi is designed to address these short-comings. | ||
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Sustainable States
Sustainable States is a role-playing curriculum I am co-developing with Dr. Tara Lennon (Arizona State University). It is developed for teaching geosciences, governance, and sustainability. Students in this experience role-play as leaders of various nations, learning the constraints under which nations operate while addressing sustainability issues. Additionally, teachers who adopt the curriculum participate in teacher development so that they can implement game-based learning in other courses that they teach. | ||