Down the Hall – Episode 32 – Rural Justice
There are unique challenges involved in educating students in rural areas. This is something that the Faculty of Education at UBC is working hard to address, to help teachers in rural communities enhance their curriculum choices by using local resources and landscapes to broaden their students experiences.
This week, Jenny talks to Dr. Linda Farr Darling about the opportunities her position as Eleanor Rix Professor of Rural Teacher Education has offered her in supporting rural teachers as they face these challenges. The Faculty has a number of initiatives in Rural Education currently ongoing, and Linda gives us some good examples of these projects (more information on these projects can be found on the Rural Teachers site). She also talks about her philosophy regarding the importance of rural education and informing more urban communities about whats happening.
Finally, Linda talks about the Restorative Justice summer institute taking place at the Mir Centre for Peace at Selkirk College, July 9-13.
Before that, your hosts discuss some great Twitter hashtags to follow in order to keep up with the Education conversation on that social networking site. Hashtags are a great way to not only follow conversations, but also find interesting people who share that same interest. Just make sure you check out the hashtags you discover for yourself before you use them!
In addition, theres why we want to go to Education conferences (its not what you think), Daves budding writing career, and aliens (since there are no zombies this week).
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Episode 32 (32:24)
Time Stamps
00:11 | Introduction
UBC Writing Centre
Twitter hashtags:
#edchat
#elearning
#edtech
#k12
#bced
Hashtags.org
11:48 | Interview – Rural Education and Transformative Justice
Interview with Dr. Linda Farr Darling
Restorative Justice summer institute
UBC Honours Japanese-Canadian Students Sent to Internment Camps
29:22 | What’s Happening in EPLT?
Teaching Games for Understanding summer institute (July 3-7, 2012)
Infant Development Supported Childcare (IDSC) summer institute (July 9-20)
Check out all of our summer institutes on our web page.
EPLT/MET on the web
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EPLT on Facebook Down the Hall on Facebook
Credits
Our theme music | “The Pharaos Theme” by The Pharaos through a Creative Commons license
Bumper music
Selection 1 | “Red River” by Jackie & the Cedrics
Selection 2 | “Emergency Exit” by Dr. Frankenstein
All selections thanks to Creative Commons licensing.
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- Down the Hall – Episode 33 – The Future of E-Learning
- Down the Hall – Episode 34 – Digital Youth
- Down the Hall – Ep 28 – The Little Conference That Could
- Down the Hall – Ep 20 – Carrying the Torch
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