Designing a Technology-enhanced Climate Change Education Curriculum
▶Summary
The character and values of the future generations are formed in their youth, mostly by the Educational system. The climate change is of fundamental importance for the future of the planet and therefore, it is important to root appropriate curriculums, technologies and modern learning materials in the educational process. To achieve the abovementioned, teachers with appropriate qualification, knowledge and experience are required. On the other hand, the contemporary education greatly relies on modern technologies, which enhance the learning process and allow to increase the motivation, understanding rate, interest in saving the planet. This project addresses the needs of teachers and pre-service teachers, which are forming the character and values of the future generations, specifically in the field of Climate change education.
▶Objectives
The main objectives of the TECCHED project are: PO1: to design and implement a technology-enhanced climate change curriculum to fight against climate change for excellence in teacher education programs that foster the development of skills and values for 21st century responsible citizenry; PO2: to teach scientific knowledge about climate change and foster ‘character and values’ development of teachers regarding climate change supported by appropriate pedagogical approaches and technologies; PO3: to design the curriculum for technology-enhanced teaching of climate change that fosters character and values development in education faculties; PO4: to prepare an interactive enriched book and a digital learning platform for faculty members to learn the curriculum and the digital learning platform, and to evaluate its effectiveness.
▶Impact
The most important outputs of the project are: 1. A technology-enhanced climate change curriculum to fight against climate change was designed. 2. A set of instructions (37) for application of different Digital tools for teaching Climate change was created. 3. An Interactive enriched book, following the content of the designed climate change curriculum was created, including a total of 18 topics. 4. A Digital learning platform for studying Climate Change was created. Other results of the project include: - More than 250 teachers and more than 2400 pre-service teachers were taught to use the developed Digital learning platform, Interactive enriched book, tools and curriculum. - 5 scientific papers were prepared, demonstrating the results of the project. - The website of the project has more than 27 000 unique visits. - A total of 209 dissemination activities with more than 174 000 people or organizations reached. All supporting documents for the project Final report are available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eSprkSi9xy_tRFmcAf0SGzXSRCUKekFP?usp=drive_link