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Sharp, Emma L.; Fagan, Joseph; Kah, Melanie; McEntee, Marie; Salmond, Jennifer – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
"Wicked problems" are complex to understand and challenging to teach. Our experience of teaching about environmental concerns in Aotearoa New Zealand suggests how these concepts are taught is more important for student learning than the nature of wicked problems themselves. By offering opportunities for students to co-develop their own…
Descriptors: World Problems, Concept Teaching, Environmental Education, Geography Instruction
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Sakr, Mona – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
How can we make use of image-based social media to develop students' critical engagement with concepts like equality and diversity? In this paper, I draw on bell hooks' description of liberatory theorising to discuss findings from a project that involved 60 2nd year BA education students taking and sharing photographs through Instagram as part of…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Social Media, Photography, Concept Formation
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Elisabeth Gee; Kelly M. Tran; Priyanka Parekh – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2020
This design case describes the development of three analog games intended to introduce middle school-age girls to core computer science (CS) concepts. We describe the learning objectives, game mechanics, and narrative elements of each game, and some key problems and decisions that we confronted during the design process. Our design process was…
Descriptors: Games, Design, Females, Learner Engagement