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We are rushing to bring AI into classrooms. Nobody is asking what we are taking out.

Alicia M. Highland, environmental educator, Founder of Tiny Green Learning, writes for Society & AI on why AI cannot fix what structural disinvestment built. Her work centers justice, community, curiosity, and connection. Her argument is patient, empirical, and necessary.

Free and openly published for #OEWeek2026:
https://societyandai.org/perspectives/ai-is-not-the-root/

#NatureBasedEducation #AIinEducation #EnvironmentalEducation

AI Is Not the Root: A Reflection from Nature-Based Education

A nature-based educator reflects on the tension between AI integration in education and the structural inequities it claims to solve, arguing for the enduring value of relational, place-based learning.

Society & AI | Society-Centered Artificial Intelligence Research & Practice

Koodugalganeshan 5d ago

#Voiceofkoodugal
Students from IDA Scudder School participated with great enthusiasm, actively building their own nest boxes to create space for sparrows in every home.
#Koodugal #SparrowConservation #SaveSparrows #Vellore #EnvironmentalEducation #StudentAction #Biodiversity

Koodugalganeshan 5d ago

Dear All
Right recognition connects the right people and drives real impact. Through media visibility in platforms like The Hindu and The Times of India, Koodugal continues to build meaningful collaborations. One such outcome was inspired educator reached out to bring sparrow conservation to students.
#Koodugal #SparrowConservation #EnvironmentalEducation #Sustainability

CBC Prince Edward Island Mar 22

P.E.I. students get fun but pivotal hands-on lessons about aquatic invasive species
Youth across Prince Edward Island are getting hands-on lessons in how aquatic invasive species spread, thanks to a new program run by the P.E.I. Invasive Species Council.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-invasive-species-council-school-program-9.7135804?cmp=rss

Chance 'Um Mar 1

This is a neat and educational site about indigenous Hawaiian snails. I love that sites like this live on the internet. #snails #hawaii #hawaiienvironment #environment #environmentaleducation

https://hawaiikahuli.org/

Koodugalganeshan Feb 21

🐦🌿 From Silence to Confidence…
koodugal Workshop in Ranipet
At A.M. DCA PS, children learned to create safe spaces for sparrows and something beautiful happened.
A quiet, usually silent student suddenly stepped forward and began fabricating a nest box independently. Teachers were surprised.
#KoodugalTrust #SaveSparrows #Ranipet #DIYWorkshop #EnvironmentalEducation #SmallHandsBigImpact

Audubon Ballroon (he/him)Feb 4

Shade Grown Coffee released in 2020

'Shade Grown Coffee' is the inspiring story about how growing coffee in the shade of native trees in the tropics can have a truly positive impact on local communities, halt deforestation and protect critical habitat for wildlife.

the birthplace of coffee is Ethiopia

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12026324

#movie #environmentaleducation

HGourlayUCL Jan 2

If you're in the UK, it's not too late to participate in the new year plant hunt: https://bsbi.org/take-part/activities/new-year-plant-hunt #citizenscience #environmentaleducation

New Year Plant Hunt

treemama Dec 2

We are now a 501c3! Can you help keep #iSeaTree (and all of our TreeMama resources) free and open by giving a donation this #GivingTuesday? #environmentaleducation #communityscience #citizenscience

Donate Here: https://ko-fi.com/treemama

Lea Berndorfer Nov 26

Over the past few months, I illustrated 58 information cards and did the graphic design for the new educational mystery game „Das Geheimnis der Soja-Bohne“ aka “The Secret of the Soybean”.

Developed by Dr. Henrike Becker, Dr. Johanna Lochner and ANU the material lets 10–12-year-olds explore how soy production, meat consumption, and environmental change are deeply connected — and how global issues shape our everyday choices. 🌱🔥
Through a narrative introduction, we meet Oskar (Germany), João (Cerrado) and Taíssa (Amazon) and uncover a global web of cause and effect:
• What does a sausage have to do with deforestation?
• Why is the sky burning over Santarém?
• And what responsibility do we carry?

With my illustrations, I want to include south perspectives, avoid stereotypes, and work sensitively with the lived realities of the interviewed children and activists. This was only possible through close collaboration with the interdisciplinary team and their partners in Brazil.

The material is part of the project GloPE – Global Perspectives on Sustainable Diets (GloPE 4), funded by Engagement Global/BMZ, and is free to download via the ANU website www.umweltbildung.de.

Huge thanks to Dr. Henrike Becker, Dr. Johanna Lochner, Annette Dieckmann, Sabrina Abel, Julia Pesch and everyone involved for this thoughtful and inspiring collaboration. ✨

🔎🔎🔎🔎🔎
Interested in using the mystery in your own educational work?
Join the online training with Dr. Henrike Becker, Dr. Johanna Lochner and — live from Brazil — Tainan Kumaruara:
📅 Dec 2, 12:00–14:30

#illustration #scienceillustration #globallearning #environmentaleducation #soy #Cerrado #Amazon #COP30