5 Simple Ways to Inspire a Love of Nature and the Outdoors Among Children
Children need surprisingly little to develop a love of nature and the outdoors - essentially it's coded into their DNA. Children didn't...
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Alex Moxon
Mar 8, 20191 min
How to Instill a Love of Learning and Prepare Children for the 21st Century
Once called STEM, STEAM education is growing in popularity worldwide. It stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and...
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Alex Moxon
Mar 7, 20193 min
10 Steps to Starting Your Own School Outdoor Education Program
Imagine a world where every school has outdoor education built into the school fabric and ethos. Imagine a school where children are...
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Alex Moxon
Mar 4, 20193 min
Experiential Education Fosters a Love of Learning Like Nothing Else! Ask Albert Einstein.
In a world where children spend most of their education cooped up in small boxes called classrooms, real-world experiential learning can...
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Alex Moxon
Feb 16, 20193 min
Youth Everywhere Are Protesting for Urgent Action On Climate Change!
On 23rd January 2019, 16 year old Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In...
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Alex Moxon
Feb 14, 20193 min
Creating Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs through Outdoor Learning
Children growing up in the 21st Century will need to be adaptable, dynamic and creative lifelong learners in a highly uncertain...
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Alex Moxon
Feb 9, 20196 min
Is Outdoor Education a Privilege of the Wealthy?
I've been thinking about this question for a while now, and I've come to learn the unfortunate truth. There is a burgeoning inequality in...
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Alex Moxon
Feb 4, 20195 min
"Nature is Boring. I Want My Smart Phone Back!"
Sometimes the older children become, it seems the less interested they become in nature and the outdoors. As an experiential educator in...
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Alex Moxon
Jan 31, 20194 min
What Is the Future of Outdoor Education?
The concept of modern outdoor education is nothing new. It owes its beginnings to separate initiatives. Organized camping was evident in...
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Alex Moxon
Jan 28, 20193 min
Let's Scrap Environmental Education & Get Ourselves Off Planet Earth!
In a recent conversation with a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) teaching colleague, who is also an avid reader of...
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Alex Moxon
Jan 20, 20197 min
How to Actively Engage Children in Conservation: A Game of 'Predator-Prey'
So far the focus of my blog posts for Outdoortopia has been on education reform and integrating outdoor and experiential education (OEE)...
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Alex Moxon
Jan 19, 20195 min
Is It Time to Re-think Outdoor Education for the 21st Century?
Outdoor and Experiential Education (OEE) is the perfect vehicle for developing young people into well-informed global citizens. The kind...
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Alex Moxon
Dec 29, 20182 min
Best 5 Pedagogical Approaches for Top-notch Sustainability Education
Environmental and sustainability education means incorporating key sustainable development issues into teaching and learning; for...
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Alex Moxon
Dec 21, 20184 min
Getting Kids in Nature is Not Enough. Actions Speak Louder Than Words.
If we are to create a new generation of ecoliterate young people who truly understand and value nature's life supporting systems, we must...
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Alex Moxon
Dec 5, 20184 min
Top 5 Ways to Empower Children to Tackle the 21st Century Environmental Burden We're Leaving Them
Environmental Education (EE) in the context of sustainable development is essential for the next generation to build a brighter future in...
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Alex Moxon
Nov 26, 20183 min
Philanthropy is Not the Solution to Sustainability. Here's Why.
Ecosia is a commercially-driven and clever search engine powered by Microsoft. But why would anyone want to change search engines from...
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Alex Moxon
Nov 11, 20184 min
Our Education System is Failing to Prepare Children for the 21st Century. Here's Why.
What outcomes should we seek from our education system, if we are to successfully prepare the next generation of young minds for a highly...
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Alex Moxon
Nov 2, 20184 min
Outdoor Education & the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Outdoor education has come to mean many things. It can mean anything from adventure-based learning to environmental education, service...
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Alex Moxon
Oct 26, 20183 min
Educate Not Advocate: The Key to Sustainability?
According to Dictionary.com, the verb "to advocate" means "to speak or write in favor of, support or urge by argument; to recommend...
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Alex Moxon
Oct 20, 20185 min
Community Mapping: What's Affecting Your Neighborhood?
In service learning, students learn to tackle real-world problems in their community, while building deeper understanding and skills for...
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