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"The significant problems we face cannot be solved with the same level of thinking we used to create them." Albert Einstein
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"All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. His instincts prompt him to compete for his place in the community but his ethics prompt him also to co-operate (perhaps in order that there may be a place to compete for)."
Aldo Leopold

Youth Learn | Authentic Youth Leadership

Youth Learn is designed to keep our fingers on the pulse of young people and how they learn best and to give them access to our work, even if their schools aren’t ready.

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Oct112010

Digital IF

Digital IF (Digi IF) is a collaboration between The Cloud Institute and the International Education Resource Network (iEARN).  

Digi IF is a condensed digital version of our Inventing the Future: Leadership and Participation for the 21st Century Curriculum. Inventing the Future is designed to challenge high-school students to become leaders of a sustainable local and global community. Through Digi IF, students will learn to become active citizens, envisioning the kind of future they want for their communities, and provide action plans to support sustainable community development.

During the six week course, students and teachers will gather together via discussion forums and two scheduled video conferences with a Lead Sustainability Educator from The Cloud Institute to discuss the multifaceted concepts of "community" and "citizenship" and their roles in creating a sustainable future.

Using iEARN’s collaborative platform, students will be able to share their perspectives as citizens of a locally and globally interconnected community and will learn how to measure progress toward their visions for the future.

The program will conclude with an opportunity to present their culminating projects to one another, targeting specific milestones to achieve over a specified timeline. These efforts have an opportunity to be presented at the 2011 iEARN  Environmental YouthCaN conference in April 2011.

Check out the Digi IF 2011 Retrospective Booklet, highlighting student interactions and work from the first week of the program.

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