Outdoor EDcast

Outdoor EDcast

Outdoor EDcast (formerly 'Disconnect: The Outdoor Education Podcast') explores the topics of what Outdoor Education is in the modern school setting, what it's role is, where it's headed and why it's more important now than ever. In partnership with ‘Educators for Climate Action Manitoba’, Outdoor EDcast will now also bring you into professional development sessions hosted by the group of dedicated teachers. Teachers, camp councillors, scout leaders and anyone interested in outdoor, place-based, experiential learning will find content useful to their teaching. Listeners can expect ideas for direct implementation, thought-provoking dialogue and interviews as well as an opportunity to communicate with the host and share their experiences in the field outdoor education.

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December 18, 2023 64 mins

Welcome to season 2 of Outdoor EDcast (formerly known as Disconnect: The Outdoor Education Podcast)

Scott Durling & Dr Rhéa Rocque talk about how to tackle the subject of Eco-Anxiety with your students.

Visit our new website!! https://podcast.oldoakstudio.ca

Visit Educators for Climate Action Manitoba: https://www.facebook.com/educ4climatemb/

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Please check out Educators for Climate Action Manitoba: https://www.facebook.com/educ4climatemb

Join us for a professional development session if you can!!

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Colin Harris is the the founder and executive director of Take Me Outside, as well as a PhD candidate in educational research at the University of Calgary. In today's episdoe, you'll hear about Take Me Outside and Colin's run across Canada to promote the cause of taking kids outside to learn.

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April 17, 2022 16 mins

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Rebirth

Cover Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash

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Episode cover photo by Brendan Beale on Unsplash

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David Sobel's website

Don't forget to email me a short voice memo letting me know what your favourite interview, big takeaway, your Aha! moment from the past year of interviews! I'd love to hear from you! Send to disconnectpodcast@protonmail.com

The music you heard at the end of the episode is by the band Moonfield, whose guitarist is a colleague of mine! Please check them out if you enjoyed what you...

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November 4, 2020 75 mins

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This episode, we take a look at the experience of queer youth at outdoor camps. With the help of Dr. Fenton Litwiller, Assistant Professor in the faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management at the University of Manitoba, and Elyse Rylander, founder of Out There Adventures, we aim to look at the role of outdoor camps in the lives of queer youth.

Links from today's episode:

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August 25, 2020 21 mins

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Today's episode is a reflection on the upcoming school year. I'll be back with more interviews later, but today's episode is some food for thought as your prepare for the months ahead.

You can now find me on Twitter! @OutdoorEdCast I'd love to hear from you, email me at disconnectpodcast@protonmail.com

3 Questions to ask youself before using an app in your lesson

  1. Is it essential to achieving you...
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Check out the following links which we referred to during today's interview with Megan Zeni, the classroom gardener.

On today's episode, you heard the song Multiverse by Ketsa, use...

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On today's episode, we speak with Wynnston Denny, a kindergarten teacher from Austin, TX, who tells us about how he started with small activities and built up to a huge success in taking his class outside for school. We'll also look at a bit of research by David Sobel, from his book Childhood & Nature: Design Principles for Educators.

Artwork for today's episode by Annie Spratt, from unsplash.com.

Find ou...

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At the end of today's episode, you heard the song "Sum Of My Fears" by Dazie Mae.

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April 17, 2020 51 mins

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An interview with Emily Reid of Glasgow, Scotland's Ecodrama theatre company to explore how imagination can bridge the gap for city school lacking access to nature. The 'Out To Play' draws upon the talents of drama artists to engage school children in their environments and get them reconnecting with nature. In today's episode, you heard Roll Jordan Roll by the Joy Drops.

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About today's show.

In today's episode, we talk with Dr. Ben Schellenberg of the University of Manitoba. Dr. Schellenberg studies passions and explains to us how different types of passions can lead to vastly different outcomes for the same habits or actions. We'll explore how this applies to our teaching and see what the best way is to begin incorporating small elements of nature education into any subject material at any...

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On today's episode we'll look at the effect of isolation and quarantine on desire to be outside and also how it improves creativity and sense of belonging in a community.

As mentioned in the episode, here are links to Air Quality Data Websites. https://waqi.info/ https://www.airvisual.com/earth

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With the entire world talking about covid-19, what can we, as outdoor education teachers, take away from this? Tonight's bonus episode takes a brief look at how Outdoor Education is the perfect place to teach community and to help students understand how their actions can have immediate effects on their surroundings and on their community.

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The first episode of Disconnect: The Outdoor Education Podcast defines what Outdoor Education is for the purpose of the podcast. In doing so, it also asks questions (which will be answered in later episodes) about what Outdoor Education is in 2020, what its role is and where it belongs.

Connect with us over this week's question: what do you do with your class, your campers, your scouts or guides to reignite ...

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