Dr. Jane Goodall is attending global summits like COP15 to warn of the planet's bleak future without immediate action.

She emphasizes the importance of preserving nature for human survival.

Dr. Goodall campaigns to ban trophy hunting and emphasizes the importance of funding conservation efforts.

The Roots & Shoots program, founded by Jane Goodall in 1991, empowers young people to create positive change.

The program operates in 68 countries, aiming to engage young people in making a difference.

The Roots & Shoots program, supported by companies like P&G, empowers young people to undertake wildlife conservation projects.

Schools can partner with organizations like the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council to integrate Roots & Shoots into their conservation curriculum.

Teacher training and support are necessary for implementing the Roots and Shoots program.

The program's effectiveness can be assessed through student engagement, conservation project participation, and environmental impact.

The Roots & Shoots program effectively promotes conservation and environmentalism among high school students and can be assessed using various metrics.

Educators can evaluate the program's impact through student activities like building bird nesting boxes and participating in conservation projects.

The program can be evaluated through student outcomes like increased environmental awareness and advocacy.

The Jane Goodall Institute is a global conservation nonprofit promoting environmental, conservation, and humanitarian issues.

The Roots & Shoots program can significantly promote conservation and environmentalism among high school students with proper implementation and evaluation.

Dr. Jane Goodall is attending global summits like COP15 to warn of the planet's bleak future without immediate action.

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Content: Leading conservationist Dr Jane Goodall warns next generation faces a 'bleak future' without action

COP15, the once-in-decade global biodiversity summit, began in Montreal on Wednesday. Ahead of the conference, ITV News spoke to one of the world's most famous and inspiring conservationists, Dr Jane Goodall.

With an estimated one million plant and animal species facing extinction, the scale of the issues being grappled with by nations at COP15 in Montreal could hardly be greater.

Entire ecosystems face collapse if we do not act, so how best to overcome this challenge?

Dr Jane Goodall has spent a lifetime trying to understand, protect and educate others about the natural world. She’s witnessed devastating habitat loss but also examples of where, given time, nature returns.

She paints a dark picture of what happens if politicians fail to rise to the occasion, saying the “price of failure is condemning our children, our children's children, to a very, very bleak and grim future.”

Talking to ITV News in Parliament, where she was marking a significant moment in the campaign to ban trophy hunting, she explains how we need to view nature.

“I would say how important it is to realise that we are actually not separate from the natural world. We are part of it and more than that we depend on it. We depend on it for food, water, everything," she said.

"We depend on healthy ecosystems. An ecosystem is made up of an interrelated mix of animal and plant species living in that ecosystem. And as more and more animals and plants become extinct in that area, so the ecosystem eventually will collapse.”

Decades of witnessing animals, such as primates, up close has forged her understanding of our world. It was notable in a room full of animal welfare campaigners just how quiet it was when she spoke.

In Montreal, the world faces a choice but it’s complicated. Delivering change includes finding a way of maintaining wealth. Making people poorer while saving plants and animals won’t work, but Dr Jane Goodall sees options that will.

She concluded: “We need nature for our own physical and psychological well-being. That's proven again and again. We must not let these ecosystems collapse, we have this window of time, we have the tools, we know how we can do things. But will we?”

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She emphasizes the importance of preserving nature for human survival.

What would letting children get close to nature help cultivate?

Dr. Goodall campaigns to ban trophy hunting and emphasizes the importance of funding conservation efforts.

What difference does Dr. Goodall believe every individual is capable of?

The Roots & Shoots program, founded by Jane Goodall in 1991, empowers young people to create positive change.

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The work of legendary ethnobiologist, conservationist and activist Jane Goodall has already inspired people to care for endangered species and the environment for decades — but the doctor’s latest endeavor continues her work in motivating the next generation.

Apple TV+’s mission-driven children’s series “Jane” harnesses the power of TV, with Emmy-winning creator J.J. Johnson (“Endlings,” “Ghostwriter”) using Goodall’s teachings to motivate kids to take a stand for endangered species and care for the environment. “Jane,” from the Jane Goodall Institute and Johnson’s company Sinking Ship Entertainment, premiered on April 14, with 10 episodes now available on Apple TV+.

“Jane” features eager 9-year-old environmentalist Jane Garcia (Ava Louise Murchison) — who is inspired to help save the planet, following in the footsteps of her role model, Goodall — along with her friends David (Mason Blomberg) and a chimpanzee named Greybeard. Each episode focuses on a different endangered species, such as Apis mellifera (Western honey bee) and Panthera tigris (tiger). Blending live action and CGI — and featuring an epic theme song “One Step Closer” written by Diane Warren, and sung by Leona Lewis — the show depicts the friends taking a stand for the species and the environment, and getting into occasional trouble along the way. The episodes all end with the friends video-chatting with real-life animal experts, particularly highlighting women and people of color.

While Goodall’s years of dedication to great apes research and advocacy have made her a household name in the 21st century, she began her work at age 26 in 1960 studying chimpanzees. She founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977, which fosters research, advocacy as well as community-led conservation, and it empowers children — particularly through its youth program Roots and Shoots, which was founded in 1991.

A United Nations Messenger of Peace and a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE), Goodall’s research on chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania helped change scientists’ understanding of humans’ relationship to animals. The research continues in Tanzania through the Jane Goodall Institute Gombe Stream Research Center, and it is the world’s longest-running chimpanzee study.

Also a prolific author, Goodall has adult and children’s literary works such as “The Book of Hope,” “In the Shadow of Man” and “Rickie and Henri: A True Story.”

Goodall is no stranger to the screen, however, as the subject of dozens of films including “Chimps, So Like Us,” “Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees” and “Jane Goodall: The Hope” — as well as Brett Morgen’s 2017 Emmy-nominated documentary, also called “Jane.” While Goodall did not create this “Jane” for Apple TV+, her life’s work and teachings inspire the show’s protagonist who idolizes her, and if Goodall had not approved the show’s concept when it was in development, it would not have moved forward.

Goodall, who turned 89 earlier this month, spoke with Variety over Zoom about how she hopes “Jane” inspires the youngest generation, and what she hopes to accomplish next in her career.

How do you hope viewers, especially children, react when they see “Jane”?

I hope that it will encourage them to actually think more about endangered species — to think about the fact that if we’re not careful, many of these species will disappear. I hope it also will encourage young people to join our Roots and Shoots program, which is in 68 countries. It’s about young people choosing projects to help — animals, people and the environment — deciding what they want to do, working out what they can do, rolling up their sleeves and taking action.

So if this Jane Garcia encourages real-life activities, it’ll be great. I hope it will encourage young people to join in the effort to make this a better world, to choose projects that will help to save the environment before it’s too late.

Talk about environmental issues often creates anxiety in children and young adults, but it is still obviously important to learn about — how do you, through this show or beyond, hope to inspire the next generation without causing anxiety?

That’s my entire program Roots and Shoots, it’s all about taking action. If young people get together and work on projects, which is the same sort of thing with Sinking Ship Entertainment, then it’s all about positive change. We need to know that many species are close to extinction, but that we have to stop that from happening. And therefore we have to work together to find out ways of saving the animals that are moving toward extinction. We need to know about the doom and gloom — I talk about it all the time. But at the same time, it’s desperately important to give people hope, especially young people, because, yes, we can make a difference.

So “Jane” shows young people how they can get together and solve the “doom and gloom” effectively?

Yeah, hopefully. The goal is to try and get young people involved and taking action, and stepping on beyond that to do more. It’s young people getting really worried, but then working together with older people who are also wanting to try to save the species. So it’s a complete mixture.

How do we inspire the next generation to create change, without placing blame on children for a situation they didn’t create?

There are major problems and, yes, all sorts of things have led to unfortunate decreases in numbers of endangered species. But the whole emphasis is on working together to create change. Let’s get young people involved, talk about what can be done to make a difference and then, as I say, roll up their sleeves and work out what they can do. And taking action is going to be different with different species. And, basically, I hope that this program will have enough fun in it, as well as understanding the problem, that young people will be pushing toward saving a lot of these animals. Many animals on the very brink of extinction have been given another chance.

What’s an example of a species that was pushed toward extinction, but human intervention reversed the course?

My favorite one is that little black robin that was reduced to just two individuals, one male and one female. That was it. And through some very clever work, there are now about 500 of them. They’re all genetically identical, of course, but they’re being spread into four different islands. So, hopefully, there will be some genetic change so they’re not all identical, since that’s not very healthy. There are many, many stories like that.

What message do you have for people who feel hopeless, or that they alone cannot make a difference?

People have to realize that every single one of us can make a difference. We could just say, “Oh well, I know that animals are becoming extinct. There’s nothing I can do about it.” That’s really going to be the end of us. But if you decide, “I will try and make a difference, I will do something every single day,” then we can make a difference. We can choose what we can do: Some of us can help animals, some of us can help planting trees, some of us can help whatever it is that we care about. And if we all choose projects to make the world better, then it’s going to make a major difference. We don’t all give up and say, “Well, it’s just me, there’s nothing I can do.” If we give up, then the future is not very good, is it? We all have to do our bit to try and persuade other people. We’re in the middle of a pretty bad, dark space. So for young people to join in and feel, “Gosh, if I do this, I will be making the world a better place,” that’s really important.

You’ve done so much in your life and in your career — what else do you look forward to accomplishing?

I want our Roots and Shoots program to be in every school in every country. But I always say, “If you try and aim for the stars, you might reach the moon. If you aim for the moon, you might reach the head of Mount Everest,” for example. So that’s the same for the stars — and at least we can reach the moon and help to protect the various animals and plants that are facing tremendous danger. The young and old alike in different countries need to really, really work hard to save these creatures. We’ve got to do it now.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

What would letting children get close to nature help cultivate?

The program operates in 68 countries, aiming to engage young people in making a difference.

The Roots & Shoots program, supported by companies like P&G, empowers young people to undertake wildlife conservation projects.

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Schools can partner with organizations like the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council to integrate Roots & Shoots into their conservation curriculum.

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Content: SISTERS — About two dozen students from Sisters High School split into two groups, with half wading across Whychus Creek to plant hundreds of trees and shrubs along the streambanks.

By sowing the native plants — spirea, dogwood, red dogwood, cottonwood and willow — the students were getting hands-on experience about what they learned in class about riparian areas and restoration.

The Upper Deschutes Watershed Council, which led the students through the work, has partnered with schools for years to connect students to rivers and streams and help them develop a sense of place, a sense of stewardship and learn what the restoration work means and why it’s important.

But this was a special week because students participated in the final phase of a series of restoration projects that began in the early 2000s to remove dams on Whychus Creek and open up 38 miles of spawning and rearing habitat for fish.

Mathias Perle, the restoration program manager for the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council, told students the final dam had been recently removed and chinook salmon and steelhead trout are slowly beginning to return.

Kolleen Yake, the watershed council’s education director, showed students how to plant the native plants and explained how the trees and shrubs will protect the soil from erosion and provide shade for native fish.

“The education, the stewardship, it goes beyond just the individual students that we interact with because they interact with their peers, with their parents, with the community as a whole,” Perle told The Bulletin. “And I think that’s something that’s really changed over the last decade is seeing the community in Sisters supporting and getting behind this work, too.”

The removal of Plainview Dam, the last dam in the 38-mile stretch of water, was delayed in September 2020 and again this summer due to wildfires and smoke.

Multiple entities have worked with the watershed council to remove the barrier, including the Three Sisters Irrigation District, the Deschutes National Forest, the Natural Resources Conservation Service and private water rights holders.

The agencies also installed irrigation-diversion fish screens to prevent fish from entering an irrigation canal and piped an unlined irrigation canal to improve water conservation.

Perle said the project has allowed ranchers to continue getting water from the creek, while protecting fishing and creating a better habitat.

The students who took part in planting the trees and shrubs on Tuesday and Wednesday are part of a long running class at Sisters High School called interdisciplinary environmental expedition.

Glen Herron, who teaches the science component of the class, said the class gives high school juniors the opportunity to study the natural environment in a hands-on fashion.

The class integrates three subjects: English, environmental science and outdoor recreation. And most of the time, students are out in the field to experience what they learn in the classroom, Herron said.

At the beginning of the term, Herron said the class started exploring the Hayden Glacier. Throughout the course, the class works its way through the subalpine, coniferous forest and then down to the desert.

“At each of those elevations, we look at what’s happening locally and politically,” he said.

Herron said the goal is to give students a sense of place and have them learn how things like the geology, restoration efforts and recreational opportunities in the region are interconnected.

“We’ve got to be aware of that to be good stewards,” Herron said. “There’s going to be more and more people on this planet, so how are we going to take care of it? I think that’s so important.”

Oscar Rhett, a senior at Sisters High School who is helping lead the class after participating last year, said the class is popular and attracts a lot of students who want to get outside.

But the class transforms student perspectives, he said, by helping students realize they need to play an active role in taking care of the community and the natural environment.

“If I’m out in the woods, it changed the way I camp; it changed the way I deal with trash,” Rhett said. “It helped me care a little bit more about everything.”

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King’s Lynn’s Springwood High School takes part in big dig

Students, staff and parents from Springwood High School have been adding to its green credentials by planting more than 400 hedgerows around the school grounds.

It was the second of the school’s rewilding events, which has been made possible thanks to the support of community and environmental ambassadors.

This comes along with a donation of trees from the Woodland Trust.

Agnieszka Munns, environmental lead at Springwood, said: “The annual hedge planting is part of the school’s ongoing attempt to increase biodiversity, create natural barriers and provide nesting sites for wildlife.

“It was finally able to take place after being postponed on account of previously water-logged and slippery ground.

“Despite conditions still being cold and wet, students, parents and staff who attended the dig were able to enjoy a little sunshine, and over 400 hedgerow saplings were successfully planted in the school grounds.”

She added: “During the replanting, students, members of staff and families, were informed how carbon emissions are connected to everyday actions and how such emissions can be reduced or offset by making small, manageable changes.

“Beyond the limited target area, an important message for our students was to keep promoting the need to protect their local environment, thereby encouraging everyone to care for and respect nature, and to take pride in their green achievements.”

The replanting scheme is one in a series of green initiatives undertaken by Springwood, which was recently awarded an Eco-Schools Green Flag by Keep Britain Tidy for its environmental awareness.

Mrs Munns added: “Earlier in November, more than 2,000 students and staff were encouraged to take part in the national ‘Cutting The Carbon’, by completing nine simple changes. These challenges included having a ‘no-meat day’, ‘saying no to new’ and ‘ditching the drive’.”

“With more green initiatives planned for next year, including creating a wildflower meadow and making bird-nesting boxes, Springwood High School is making sure the young people receive a sound grounding in considering how to protect the environment, starting locally in their own school.”

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Content: Jane Goodall wants University of Wisconsin-Madison students to walk away with one message Sunday: Do not give up hope.

It’s a strategy the world-renowned ethologist and conservationist has found effective in spurring action, even as headlines catastrophizing climate change inundate people with a sense of doom.

“I don't agree with scientists who say the tipping point has already reached the point of no return with climate change and loss of biodiversity,” Goodall told the Cap Times. “We still have a window of time. But if we lose hope, fall into apathy and don't take action, then we're doomed.”

Goodall is best known for her groundbreaking work in the early ‘60s as a primatologist. At 26, she began studying chimpanzees in Tanzania, becoming the first to observe that the animals make and use tools. Now part of the world’s longest-running study of wild chimpanzees, her findings have forever changed scientific understanding of primates and humans’ relationship to them.

Goodall’s legacy also endures through her activism. In 1977, she founded the Jane Goodall Institute, a global conservation nonprofit. One of the organization’s programs, Roots & Shoots, educates young people in over 60 countries to work on environmental, conservation and humanitarian issues.

In 2021, Goodall additionally published “The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times,” which details her hope in the world’s ability to make change despite its environmental challenges.

Goodall will speak Sunday at 7 p.m. in UW-Madison’s Memorial Union for the Wisconsin Union’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Tickets for the event sold out among students within 90 minutes, but the public can still register to watch the online livestream.

In a virtual interview with the Cap Times, Goodall spoke from the Edgewater Hotel about climate deniers, how she remains optimistic and what the audience can expect from her on Sunday.

Will you have time to explore Madison this weekend, or will you mostly be working?

It’s all working. Not mostly — all. But the hotel has a lovely view overlooking the lake with all the ice. My life turns out to be work, meeting lovely people and just having an occasional moment to walk in a bit of nature.

What can people expect to learn from you on Sunday?

I hope they take away the message that every single one of them makes a difference every single day of their lives, and they can choose what sort of difference they make. I think that’s the most important message that anybody can have — that they, as an individual, matter and have a role to play.

Your platform revolves around this message of hope. What might be the harm in catastrophizing?

It makes people lose hope. If you’re told that nothing you can do will avert the planet heating up to a point where life is no longer possible and that we’re destroying the ecosystems on which we depend, then why bother doing anything?

The important thing is to realize we still have time, but we have to take action. We have to each do our bit. It may seem small, but billions of small, ethical actions make change.

Much of your work focuses on involving young people within conservation efforts. What inspires you about the attitudes of younger generations toward animals and the environment?

They are much more aware, which isn’t surprising. When I was young, "environmentalism" wasn’t even a word.

Young people are surrounded by doom and gloom. The radio’s full of it, the internet's full of it, the television's full of it, the press is full of it, and so they're much more aware. Fortunately, there are enough people saying it's not too late, and that inspires them and galvanizes them into action.

Do you think those attitudes are much different from older generations?

They are different because older generations either didn't understand what was happening because of ignorance, or they don't want to understand because they want to carry on with business as usual. They want to go on making money in the short term at the expense of future generations.

Sometimes I don’t think they’re thinking like that. I don't think they're deliberately understanding that they're harming the future for their children and grandchildren. But they're simply not thinking in the way that we should be thinking today.

Is it still worth trying to change their minds?

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! How to change the minds of the older people? Through storytelling, not through pointing fingers, not through making people angry, not by telling them they're bad, but by reaching into the heart. I’ll give you one example.

This CEO of a huge international corporation told me he was working to get his company ethical for three reasons. One, because we're using our nature's finite natural resources faster than nature can replenish them. Second, consumer pressure — people are beginning to demand ethically produced products.

But what really tipped the balance, he said, was his little girl of 8. She came back from school one day and said, “Daddy, they're telling me that what you're doing is hurting the planet. That's not true, is it, Daddy? Because it's my planet.” That reached his heart. That's the way you change people.

When did you realize this approach of storytelling could persuade people?

I think it was probably part of my nature. I'm not confrontational. I'm fighting for change, yes, but not by confronting. People must change from within. I don't believe you can change them by hammering them with facts that they don't want to listen to.

When I first went to the medical research labs where the scientists kept chimps in 5-foot by 5-foot cages, it was one of the worst experiences of my life. I came out shaken, trying not to cry. I was taken into a room with the top people from the National Institute of Health in the department of animal experimentation. I realized they were waiting for me to speak.

I said, “I imagine all of you are caring and compassionate people, and maybe feel just as I did about what's going on in there.” When you think of it, that was very clever. They couldn’t admit they weren’t caring and compassionate, could they?

Instead of telling them they were bad people, I showed them pictures of the chimpanzees in the wild, making their nests, playing, lying around. In their minds, they could contrast it with the cages where these very social beings were kept for 30 to 40 years. I know it did get into some of their hearts because they told me so. It made some labs completely change the way that they operated.

When you meet somebody, or a group of people, you may not realize that you've made a difference — but you may have planted seeds that will grow and cause change in some of the hearts.

What mistakes did you make early on in your career that emerging activists and young people can learn from?

I was saved from making mistakes in the early days. Before I went to Africa to study chimps, I was working at London Zoo. The chimps were in terrible conditions. So when I got back from my first stint in Africa, the zoo arranged a press conference. I thought now I could really tell the world how bad the chimps were treated!

I happened to be having dinner that night with a very powerful man that I met in Tanzania, and I told him about my plan with great excitement. There was dead silence. He said, “Do you realize that the head of the London Zoo is Solly Zuckerman, Winston Churchill's wartime adviser? A very, very powerful man. Do you think he's going to take it lying down when you criticize his zoo?”

He said, “Just tell me three things that are the most important to change.” I told him, and within two weeks, they were all done. There was no confrontation. That was a lesson that came just in time for me not to make that mistake.

So it’s about activists getting rid of their own personal egos.

Exactly. What people want is to have their name out there and to say, “I did it. I changed this.” It’s learning to not want to be recognized for change. The main thing is to make the change. Not “me” making the change.

This powerful man obviously didn't want me to say that the chimps were being treated badly. He immediately agreed, but didn’t want it out in the press. Give Solly Zuckerman the credit. That’s fine — as long as it changes.

This is a lesson I talk about with our youth. I tell them not to be confrontational. Your goal: Is it to glorify yourself? To be the champion? Or do you really want change?

What do people still not understand about your work and its relevance today?

Climate change deniers, people who don’t want to make a difference, probably don’t understand. What they really think is hard to tell. But are there really people who deny that climate change is happening? Probably not. When they admit it’s real, they say it’s natural and that it’s not manmade. Do they really believe that? I can’t believe they do — but that’s what they say. They don’t want to lose face, and making people lose face isn’t a good way to make change.

What makes you think they don’t really believe what they’re saying?

Well, I can't think of anybody with any ounce of intelligence could believe it. That's why.

How often do you come across those kinds of people?

Not very often. They tend to avoid me.

Kayla Huynh joined the Cap Times in 2021 and covers higher education. She graduated from Northwestern University with a master's degree in journalism after attending UW-Madison.

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Trading homework for hip waders: Regina students become stewards of conservation park

Students from a Regina high school will get to take class outside, while helping the environment.

High school students partner with Ducks Unlimited to create wetland centre of excellence

Science has always been a big part of Mireya Zigler's life.

Zigler's dad was an environmental science teacher at Martin Collegiate in Regina, and she admits to having a bit of a dinosaur obsession as a kid.

Now, Zigler and her Grade 10 classmates at Dr. Martin LeBoldus High School will get to explore their passion for science further, as they become environmental stewards at McKell Wascana Conservation Park.

The project is a partnership between the school and Ducks Unlimited to make the roughly 70-hectare (171-acre) park in east Regina a wetland centre of excellence — part of a national network of schools and community partners for the conservation organization.

The centres give students an opportunity to lead conservation projects and community outreach at their local wetland through the school year, while learning about its importance to the environment.

McKell Wascana is the third such centre in Saskatchewan, and the 27th in Canada.

"As a student, I've just found that everybody's kind of a kinesthetic learner," said Zigler.

"If you're actually going to go out and experience what you're doing, everybody is going to be able to absorb that information ... significantly more than just memorizing text in a classroom."

How these high school students are becoming advocates for the environment

18 hours ago
Duration 2:01
Grade 10 science students from Dr. Martin LeBoldus High School in Regina are taking the classroom outside. They've partnered with Ducks Unlimited to be stewards of the McKell Wascana Conservation Park, which was recently named a Wetland Centre of Excellence.

Her classmate Kaylee Lawrence agrees. It's a great way to get out of the school to learn, says Lawrence.

"We spend a lot of time in there and it can get really boring at times," she said. "This is a great new experience and a way to get us into nature."

Student-directed activities

The 47 students involved in the project will get to choose which conservation activities they want to do.

Those include building nesting boxes for birds, and even getting waist-deep in Wascana Creek to filter the water and improve its quality downstream.

Mariane Bolla, head of national education with Ducks Unlimited, said the McKell Wascana site was chosen for the project because Ducks Unlimited helped establish the park.

Wetlands like McKell Wascana are well known for their environmental benefits — serving as natural water filters and a home for numerous species of animals. They can also store carbon, instead of releasing it into the atmosphere.

Bolla said this particular project requires teachers who show leadership and are willing to put a bit more effort into their lessons.

LeBoldus science teacher Desmond Hartney was already doing some outdoor education, so the Ducks Unlimited project was a good match.

Hartney said his students are eager to start working at the site.

"They kind of feel a responsibility for maintaining it," he said. "They become advocates for the environment — not just necessarily this wetland but also other areas around the city and the province."

Hartney hopes to implement the project into other classes at LeBoldus in the future.

Zigler is hopeful her classmates will become better citizens after the year-long partnership.

"I just hope that people are going to learn to actually care about the environment," she said. "I really hope that this is going to impact them."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ethan Williams

Weather and climate journalist

Ethan Williams is a weather and climate reporter and presenter for CBC News in Saskatchewan, based in Regina. Catch CBC Saskatchewan News with Sam Maciag and Ethan Williams weeknights at 6 p.m. CST for your local news and weather. Get in touch with him: Ethan.Williams@cbc.ca

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ecological literacy

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What would letting children get close to nature help cultivate?

drive to protect the earth
ecological literacy


Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program is a global conservation initiative that empowers young people to create positive change in their communities, and it can be adapted for implementation in a high school science classroom.

The program focuses on projects that help animals, people, and the environment, and its main message is that every individual has a role to play in helping the environment.

To implement the Roots & Shoots program in a high school science classroom, teachers can partner with organizations such as Ducks Unlimited for conservation projects, and students can participate in activities such as building nesting boxes and water filtering.

The program can be integrated into the curriculum to promote environmental care and conservation education, with the goal of implementing conservation education into the curriculum.

Teachers can use various strategies, such as small group discussions, debates, and role-playing, to promote critical thinking and empathy among students, and to facilitate constructive conversations and debates on environmental issues.

Environmental education promotes critical and creative thinking skills in students, which are essential for facilitating constructive conversations and debates on environmental issues.

The Roots & Shoots program can help students develop critical thinking and empathy skills, and it can be assessed using various tools, such as self-reflection questions, peer revision and editing, and video recording self-reflection.

Virtual reality (VR) technology can also be used to improve critical thinking and problem-solving skills, develop empathy and social skills, and support personalized and interactive learning experiences.

The effectiveness of the Roots & Shoots program can be measured using a combination of assessment tools and methods, providing a comprehensive understanding of its impact on promoting critical thinking and empathy among high school students in a science classroom.

By implementing the Roots & Shoots program in a high school science classroom, teachers can help students develop a deeper understanding of environmental issues and promote critical thinking and empathy skills.

The program's emphasis on individual actions making a difference collectively can help students understand their role in creating positive change in their communities.

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The program has been successful in empowering young people to make a positive impact on the environment, with individual actions making a difference in saving the planet.

Teachers can use the program to help students develop critical thinking and empathy skills, and to facilitate constructive conversations and debates on environmental issues.

By incorporating the Roots & Shoots program into their curriculum, high school science teachers can help students develop a deeper understanding of environmental issues and promote critical thinking and empathy skills.

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The Roots & Shoots program is active in 70 countries with hundreds of thousands of young people participating, making it a global conservation initiative with a significant impact.

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By implementing the Roots & Shoots program in a high school science classroom, teachers can help students develop a sense of hope and empowerment, and promote critical thinking and empathy skills.

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Overall, the Roots & Shoots program is a valuable resource for high school science teachers looking to promote environmental education and conservation, and it can be adapted to fit the needs of their students.

Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program is a global conservation initiative that empowers young people to create positive change in their communities, and it can be adapted for implementation in a high school science classroom.

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The work of legendary ethnobiologist, conservationist and activist Jane Goodall has already inspired people to care for endangered species and the environment for decades — but the doctor’s latest endeavor continues her work in motivating the next generation.

Apple TV+’s mission-driven children’s series “Jane” harnesses the power of TV, with Emmy-winning creator J.J. Johnson (“Endlings,” “Ghostwriter”) using Goodall’s teachings to motivate kids to take a stand for endangered species and care for the environment. “Jane,” from the Jane Goodall Institute and Johnson’s company Sinking Ship Entertainment, premiered on April 14, with 10 episodes now available on Apple TV+.

“Jane” features eager 9-year-old environmentalist Jane Garcia (Ava Louise Murchison) — who is inspired to help save the planet, following in the footsteps of her role model, Goodall — along with her friends David (Mason Blomberg) and a chimpanzee named Greybeard. Each episode focuses on a different endangered species, such as Apis mellifera (Western honey bee) and Panthera tigris (tiger). Blending live action and CGI — and featuring an epic theme song “One Step Closer” written by Diane Warren, and sung by Leona Lewis — the show depicts the friends taking a stand for the species and the environment, and getting into occasional trouble along the way. The episodes all end with the friends video-chatting with real-life animal experts, particularly highlighting women and people of color.

While Goodall’s years of dedication to great apes research and advocacy have made her a household name in the 21st century, she began her work at age 26 in 1960 studying chimpanzees. She founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977, which fosters research, advocacy as well as community-led conservation, and it empowers children — particularly through its youth program Roots and Shoots, which was founded in 1991.

A United Nations Messenger of Peace and a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE), Goodall’s research on chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania helped change scientists’ understanding of humans’ relationship to animals. The research continues in Tanzania through the Jane Goodall Institute Gombe Stream Research Center, and it is the world’s longest-running chimpanzee study.

Also a prolific author, Goodall has adult and children’s literary works such as “The Book of Hope,” “In the Shadow of Man” and “Rickie and Henri: A True Story.”

Goodall is no stranger to the screen, however, as the subject of dozens of films including “Chimps, So Like Us,” “Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees” and “Jane Goodall: The Hope” — as well as Brett Morgen’s 2017 Emmy-nominated documentary, also called “Jane.” While Goodall did not create this “Jane” for Apple TV+, her life’s work and teachings inspire the show’s protagonist who idolizes her, and if Goodall had not approved the show’s concept when it was in development, it would not have moved forward.

Goodall, who turned 89 earlier this month, spoke with Variety over Zoom about how she hopes “Jane” inspires the youngest generation, and what she hopes to accomplish next in her career.

How do you hope viewers, especially children, react when they see “Jane”?

I hope that it will encourage them to actually think more about endangered species — to think about the fact that if we’re not careful, many of these species will disappear. I hope it also will encourage young people to join our Roots and Shoots program, which is in 68 countries. It’s about young people choosing projects to help — animals, people and the environment — deciding what they want to do, working out what they can do, rolling up their sleeves and taking action.

So if this Jane Garcia encourages real-life activities, it’ll be great. I hope it will encourage young people to join in the effort to make this a better world, to choose projects that will help to save the environment before it’s too late.

Talk about environmental issues often creates anxiety in children and young adults, but it is still obviously important to learn about — how do you, through this show or beyond, hope to inspire the next generation without causing anxiety?

That’s my entire program Roots and Shoots, it’s all about taking action. If young people get together and work on projects, which is the same sort of thing with Sinking Ship Entertainment, then it’s all about positive change. We need to know that many species are close to extinction, but that we have to stop that from happening. And therefore we have to work together to find out ways of saving the animals that are moving toward extinction. We need to know about the doom and gloom — I talk about it all the time. But at the same time, it’s desperately important to give people hope, especially young people, because, yes, we can make a difference.

So “Jane” shows young people how they can get together and solve the “doom and gloom” effectively?

Yeah, hopefully. The goal is to try and get young people involved and taking action, and stepping on beyond that to do more. It’s young people getting really worried, but then working together with older people who are also wanting to try to save the species. So it’s a complete mixture.

How do we inspire the next generation to create change, without placing blame on children for a situation they didn’t create?

There are major problems and, yes, all sorts of things have led to unfortunate decreases in numbers of endangered species. But the whole emphasis is on working together to create change. Let’s get young people involved, talk about what can be done to make a difference and then, as I say, roll up their sleeves and work out what they can do. And taking action is going to be different with different species. And, basically, I hope that this program will have enough fun in it, as well as understanding the problem, that young people will be pushing toward saving a lot of these animals. Many animals on the very brink of extinction have been given another chance.

What’s an example of a species that was pushed toward extinction, but human intervention reversed the course?

My favorite one is that little black robin that was reduced to just two individuals, one male and one female. That was it. And through some very clever work, there are now about 500 of them. They’re all genetically identical, of course, but they’re being spread into four different islands. So, hopefully, there will be some genetic change so they’re not all identical, since that’s not very healthy. There are many, many stories like that.

What message do you have for people who feel hopeless, or that they alone cannot make a difference?

People have to realize that every single one of us can make a difference. We could just say, “Oh well, I know that animals are becoming extinct. There’s nothing I can do about it.” That’s really going to be the end of us. But if you decide, “I will try and make a difference, I will do something every single day,” then we can make a difference. We can choose what we can do: Some of us can help animals, some of us can help planting trees, some of us can help whatever it is that we care about. And if we all choose projects to make the world better, then it’s going to make a major difference. We don’t all give up and say, “Well, it’s just me, there’s nothing I can do.” If we give up, then the future is not very good, is it? We all have to do our bit to try and persuade other people. We’re in the middle of a pretty bad, dark space. So for young people to join in and feel, “Gosh, if I do this, I will be making the world a better place,” that’s really important.

You’ve done so much in your life and in your career — what else do you look forward to accomplishing?

I want our Roots and Shoots program to be in every school in every country. But I always say, “If you try and aim for the stars, you might reach the moon. If you aim for the moon, you might reach the head of Mount Everest,” for example. So that’s the same for the stars — and at least we can reach the moon and help to protect the various animals and plants that are facing tremendous danger. The young and old alike in different countries need to really, really work hard to save these creatures. We’ve got to do it now.

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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By Michelle Cohan

In 1960, on the banks of Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania, one young British woman would set out to change what we know about primates forever.

Jane Goodall, in 1960, searching an African forest for chimpanzees.

Jane Goodall defied conventional scientific methods by immersing herself in the jungle, which led to groundbreaking discoveries about chimpanzees; most notably that they use tools, are omnivores and that they are socially complex beings.

More than six decades later, her unorthodox field work – and her conservation efforts – are still celebrated around the world.

Today, the recently-turned 90-year-old’s work looks a little different – taking place mostly indoors, and with a different crowd. Through her program called “Roots & Shoots,” Goodall empowers young people to create change within their communities. And for her, this work is just as significant.

CNN spoke with Goodall recently during a trip to South Africa, where she observed some of the projects local Johannesburg students are heading up as part of Roots & Shoots.

The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

CNN: The younger generation has so much they can learn from elders. Who made an impact on your life?

Goodall: I think it’s really important, this exchange of information from the elders to the youngers. I was really lucky; I had an amazing mother. I was born loving animals, and she supported that love of animals. I was one-and-a-half years old, and she came into my room and she found I’d taken a whole handful of wriggling earthworms into my bed. Most mothers would’ve [said], ‘Oh, throw these dirty things [away].’ She just said, ‘Jane, I think they might die without the Earth, you better take them into the garden.’ And so she nurtured this inherent love I had … in all the insects, the birds, the animals, everybody around me.

Jane Goodall

CNN: Roots & Shoots is active in 70 countries, where hundreds of thousands of young people are making an impact within their communities. How did the program come about?

Goodall: When I began Roots & Shoots in Tanzania in 1991, it was because I was meeting young people then who had lost hope. Young people who felt we’d compromised their future. And the reason they’re losing hope, it’s obvious: climate change, loss of biodiversity. I could go on listing, listing, listing … but when they said there was nothing they could do about it, then I thought, ‘No, that’s not true.’

We worked out that Roots & Shoots’ main message [would be that] every individual has a role to play. And that we needed to think holistically in terms of helping the environment, people and animals, because we are all interrelated. That’s where it began.

CNN: What is the most important message to convey to the younger generation?

Goodall: The goal that I have is helping young people understand that there is a window of time [to save the planet]. Unfortunately, today I [still] meet more and more people who are losing hope. So many people feel helpless and hopeless because [they question] what can they can do as an individual.

But what people have to understand is when it’s 2 million, 1 billion, 2 billion, 3 billion, all taking small actions to make the world a better place, that is changing the world. What matters is people understanding that as an individual, what they do makes a difference. Not because it’s just them, but because they are not alone.

CNN: Does climate innovation and technology give you hope?

Goodall: Yeah, I think that if we look around at what’s happening to the planet, we need to grab onto every single thing we can that will help us to move forward out of the disaster that we have created. And if we look at solar energy, if we look at wind energy and the power of tide energy, then these things are good.

The problem has been to get government support. So governments tend to put money into the fossil fuel industry, rather than to support the new emerging technologies that will enable us to live in a more harmonious way with the natural world. If we don’t do that, our future is doomed. And unfortunately, it’s not only our future, but so many of the other animals that so many of us love. We have to take action now.

CNN: What message do you have for the world?

Goodall: A message to the world would be, don’t forget that you as an individual make an impact on the environment every single day. And it’s up to you to choose what sort of impact you make. I think once everybody understands the role that they play, whoever they are, is so desperately important, then we move towards a better world.

Editor’s note: At one of Goodall’s recent presentations in California, 93-year-old movie actor and director Clint Eastwood was in the audience. Asked why he was there, Eastwood said he supported Goodall’s work and added that he was a big fan of 90-year-olds.
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What would letting children get close to nature help cultivate?

To implement the Roots & Shoots program in a high school science classroom, teachers can partner with organizations such as Ducks Unlimited for conservation projects, and students can participate in activities such as building nesting boxes and water filtering.

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Trading homework for hip waders: Regina students become stewards of conservation park

Students from a Regina high school will get to take class outside, while helping the environment.

High school students partner with Ducks Unlimited to create wetland centre of excellence

Science has always been a big part of Mireya Zigler's life.

Zigler's dad was an environmental science teacher at Martin Collegiate in Regina, and she admits to having a bit of a dinosaur obsession as a kid.

Now, Zigler and her Grade 10 classmates at Dr. Martin LeBoldus High School will get to explore their passion for science further, as they become environmental stewards at McKell Wascana Conservation Park.

The project is a partnership between the school and Ducks Unlimited to make the roughly 70-hectare (171-acre) park in east Regina a wetland centre of excellence — part of a national network of schools and community partners for the conservation organization.

The centres give students an opportunity to lead conservation projects and community outreach at their local wetland through the school year, while learning about its importance to the environment.

McKell Wascana is the third such centre in Saskatchewan, and the 27th in Canada.

"As a student, I've just found that everybody's kind of a kinesthetic learner," said Zigler.

"If you're actually going to go out and experience what you're doing, everybody is going to be able to absorb that information ... significantly more than just memorizing text in a classroom."

How these high school students are becoming advocates for the environment

18 hours ago
Duration 2:01
Grade 10 science students from Dr. Martin LeBoldus High School in Regina are taking the classroom outside. They've partnered with Ducks Unlimited to be stewards of the McKell Wascana Conservation Park, which was recently named a Wetland Centre of Excellence.

Her classmate Kaylee Lawrence agrees. It's a great way to get out of the school to learn, says Lawrence.

"We spend a lot of time in there and it can get really boring at times," she said. "This is a great new experience and a way to get us into nature."

Student-directed activities

The 47 students involved in the project will get to choose which conservation activities they want to do.

Those include building nesting boxes for birds, and even getting waist-deep in Wascana Creek to filter the water and improve its quality downstream.

Mariane Bolla, head of national education with Ducks Unlimited, said the McKell Wascana site was chosen for the project because Ducks Unlimited helped establish the park.

Wetlands like McKell Wascana are well known for their environmental benefits — serving as natural water filters and a home for numerous species of animals. They can also store carbon, instead of releasing it into the atmosphere.

Bolla said this particular project requires teachers who show leadership and are willing to put a bit more effort into their lessons.

LeBoldus science teacher Desmond Hartney was already doing some outdoor education, so the Ducks Unlimited project was a good match.

Hartney said his students are eager to start working at the site.

"They kind of feel a responsibility for maintaining it," he said. "They become advocates for the environment — not just necessarily this wetland but also other areas around the city and the province."

Hartney hopes to implement the project into other classes at LeBoldus in the future.

Zigler is hopeful her classmates will become better citizens after the year-long partnership.

"I just hope that people are going to learn to actually care about the environment," she said. "I really hope that this is going to impact them."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ethan Williams

Weather and climate journalist

Ethan Williams is a weather and climate reporter and presenter for CBC News in Saskatchewan, based in Regina. Catch CBC Saskatchewan News with Sam Maciag and Ethan Williams weeknights at 6 p.m. CST for your local news and weather. Get in touch with him: Ethan.Williams@cbc.ca

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What will decrease anxiety according to Dr. Goodall?

young people working together on conservation projects

The program can be integrated into the curriculum to promote environmental care and conservation education, with the goal of implementing conservation education into the curriculum.

What would letting children get close to nature help cultivate?

drive to protect the earth
ecological literacy

Teachers can use various strategies, such as small group discussions, debates, and role-playing, to promote critical thinking and empathy among students, and to facilitate constructive conversations and debates on environmental issues.

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The central question facing the nation’s college and universities, which have been roiled by protests since the deadly surprise Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, is not whether speech should be regulated, but how.

That was the starting point for a group of legal and political scholars gathered Tuesday by Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. The goal was to clarify how the law defines free speech and speech that can be regulated, and to discuss the balance that institutions of higher education must strike in creating policies that respect personal safety, legal rights, and academic freedom.

“Today’s challenges underscore enduring questions about the appropriate role of institutions of higher education during times of political and social conflict and how the mission, policies, and values of universities intersect with constitutional and statutory law,” said Brown-Nagin, the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and professor of history at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

The Supreme Court has long held that First Amendment protections do not preclude institutions from imposing limits on speech. They “may, and indeed should, restrict” some types of speech provided they remain neutral and aren’t simply acting because they disapprove of its content, said Nadine Strossen ’72, J.D. ’75, professor emerita at New York Law School and president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991-2008.

The court has allowed limits on the time, place, or manner of speech, such as prohibiting disruptions in classrooms or libraries, or speech intended to incite violence. In addition, Strossen said, harassment or bullying, or statements so objectively offensive, severe, and intimidating that they deprive someone of an equal educational or employment opportunity, are also appropriately subject to restriction.

However, she noted, institutions are permitted as a general rule to sanction speakers only if they are making statements directed at specific individuals, not a general group, and their language must constitute what the Supreme Court calls a “true threat,” one that instills “a reasonable and objective fear” in another that they will be subject to physical attack.

Besides considering limits to speech, higher education policies must also look to promote constructive, open dialogue. Many faculty and students say evolving social norms and campus speech policies of recent years have had a chilling effect on free expression that is stifling education and inquiry, according to Keith E. Whittington, a professor of politics at Princeton University, and Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

The two scholars lead the Academic Freedom Alliance, a national organization of college faculty who are pushing back on speech policies that limit academic freedom.

“The more we expand what we think of and are willing to treat as disciplinable harassment, discrimination and bullying, the less space there will be for free inquiry and exploration of ideas,” Suk Gersen said.

“Many of us, myself included, became concerned in the last several years” about “the slow erosion of academic freedom” that has “started to feel unbearable” in the last two years, she said.

It is “incredibly common” for students, “regardless of their political leanings, to say in the privacy of office hours, ‘I would never speak my mind; I would never raise my hand in class to actually express a viewpoint even if I know some who might agree because other people won’t agree with me and then I might be subject to some kind of shaming campaign or ostracized.’”

Teachers are changing course syllabi and eliminating topics such as gender, sexual assault, and racial discrimination. “But now, it’s too risky even if they’re not espousing any viewpoint,” Suk Gerson said.

The whole point of these policies is to ensure everyone has access to educational opportunities, said Erica Chenoweth, Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Kennedy School. She said there have been “some egregious instances in which people have been bullied out of the institution” and harassed over their viewpoint or speech. “And so, there needs to be sort of a minimum standard so that everyone has access to the opportunities of academic freedom.”

Fostering a culture of mutual respect on campus will involve more than settling on a code of conduct everyone can live with, said Chenoweth, who led a Kennedy School working group that recently completed a two-year effort that examined ways to have serious, respectful conversations about divisive topics.

“And the answer is that you have to really intentionally build not just a culture of mutual trust and respect, but also the skills to have these types of conversations — to convene them, to facilitate them, and to recover from them,” said Chenoweth, who urges less confrontational debates and more small group discussions in intimate settings where people can offer their genuine views and concerns.

“At its core, the purpose of the University is to create new knowledge, to talk about ideas, and to prepare the next generation of leaders to go out and build a true world. I think that that means that we have a responsibility to practice that well here,” Chenoweth said.

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Content: GILGIT       -        The sessions on ‘Climate Change awareness’ for students on Friday was held by Gilgit-Baltistan environmental protection agency (GBepa) in collaboration with other partners. The sessions were arranged at Government high school for Boys, Danyore and Government high school for Girls, Oshkhandaas. The sessions were attended by students of 8th, 9th and 10th standards in both male and female campuses. On the occasion officials of GBEPA said that climate change was a topic that highly influenced the young generation and it was important to understand the level of climate change awareness of younger people. They added that environmental education promoted critical and creative thinking skills and inspired youth to become more engaged with their communities, adding that it helped them understand important of environment and provided them with the building blocks they needed to live eco-friendly and sustainable lives. These sessions would be further conducted in all districts of Gilgit Baltistan to raise awareness about current environmental and climate change impacts. GBEPA holds session on ‘climate change awareness

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Content: Margaret Wooding School in Redcliff is holding an Exhibition of Learning on Wednesday from 3:30 – 6 p.m. The event is open to parents and members of the community.

Students at the school wanted to learn more about endangered animals, and all the work they’ve done will be showcased at the exhibition next week.

Principal Craig Corsie explained, “They’ve gone through research, done essay work, illustrations, peer revision and peer editing. They’ve prepared presentations, created dioramas, all to showcase what they’ve been doing. Through the entire process they’ve been doing a self-reflection process, and video recording that each time.”

In the self-reflection sessions, students answer the following questions: What did I learn? What am I learning about myself? How can I improve for the next stage based on the feedback I’ve received from classmates, teachers and myself?

Grade 5 students Lilly Green and Connor Che presented their experiences to the board of trustees of Prairie Rose Public Schools.

Green did her project on snow leopards.

“I learned I was patient when I make a mistake because it is an opportunity to learn. I was excited when doing the diorama because I could use my creativity and artistic abilities.”

Green found the reflection videos showed how she grew as a learner and helped improve her work. Going through it has enabled her to be more comfortable talking in front of groups and screens.

Che researched sugar gliders, a small marsupial.

“I am an independent learner who can get carried away with other things.”

Creating the dioramas and drawings were his favourite part and he found inspiration from the work his classmates produced. Coming up with interesting sentences for his report was challenging. While he’s gained more self-confidence, he also learned he is easily distracted when doing research.

For his diorama, Che used a 3D printer to create his sugar glider, then sanded it down and painted it.

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Virtual technology boosts student learning skills by providing opportunities for hands-on, experiential learning. Additionally, VR technology can also be helpful to improve problem-solving and critical thinking skills. By immersing themselves in virtual scenarios, the students can learn to analyse, interpret information, make decisions, and develop solutions to complex problems

One of the most effective ways by which the VR technology is boosting student learning skills is by immersing them in realistic and interactive simulations. This virtual technology allows students to experience concepts and situations in a safe and controlled environment, which can effectively help to improve their understanding and retention of the content. For example, students can learn about historical events through VR simulations. This can help them to bring the past to life by making it more significant and realistic.

Along with this, Virtual technology boosts student learning skills by providing opportunities for hands-on, experiential learning. Additionally, VR technology can also be helpful to improve problem-solving and critical thinking skills. By immersing themselves in virtual scenarios, the students can learn to analyse, interpret information, make decisions, and develop solutions to complex problems.

Virtual reality also contributes to education by enabling immersive teachings that have a lasting impression on students. With the help of VR technology, graduates can transform their skill sets and made immediately applicable.

For students, learning through play, first-hand experiences, and application of knowledge results in a more enticing environment and significantly stronger skill sets. Moreover, all these VR learning opportunities help students develop crucial interpersonal abilities like empathy, teamwork, and social skills that students need for their future.

Virtual learning also enhances students' creativity by supports kids' decision-making and uses their creativity to help them create their own alternate world. In order to bridge the gap between students' abilities and novel learning experiences, VR can be quite helpful. Learning students are less likely to become distracted when using VR since it delivers concentrated immersion and makes it simple to keep them engaged throughout the entire lesson.

VR technology supports students in various different ways:

Access to the wealth of information and remote learning

The VR inclusiveness allows students to join a class from anywhere in the world, interact with the world through digital avatars, and experience the characteristics of a real classroom. Students can enhance their leadership abilities and higher-order thinking skills in such a setting. It also provides privileged access to information that has been handed down and is supported by evidence. In a sea of lies, this information can act as a beacon.

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With VR, students can access a variety of educational information, learn at their own pace, and get immediate feedback. Students can better understand complex subjects since it is engaging and immersive. Students' cognitive skills are strengthened as a result. While immersive experiences use a combination of images, sound, and technology to create enduring and compelling worlds, interactive and immersive experiences allow the spectator to explore places through a succession of connected 360° settings.

Boost students' cognitive skills

Cognitive abilities include things like your memory, thinking, focus, problem-solving abilities, reading comprehension, and learning processes. These skills help you stay awake and logical while also speeding up your processing speed. You can focus on one task while being distracted by other things. Thanks to selective attention! You can use logic and reasoning abilities when you recognise a customer's wants and go through a process of brainstorming and problem-solving to meet those needs. When your processing speed is high, your brain can more quickly interpret information and apply it to a work or project.

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Technology can be crucial in developing authentic evaluation, giving students the chance to evaluate their own work and develop their skills to produce the desired results. Students can learn to improvise their study findings or public speaking techniques, for instance, with the assistance of a virtual tutor. Virtual reality will unquestionably increase the effectiveness of knowledge transfer in education.

Additionally, VR can be utilised to include more modern technology in the classroom and assist students in creating a better future for themselves and those around them.

Lastly, VR technology can also help to improve students' social and emotional skills. For example, students can use VR to practice communication and collaboration skills in a virtual team-building exercise. It can also be used to simulate real-world scenarios and help students develop empathy and understanding of different perspectives.

In conclusion, VR technology is a powerful tool that can help to boost student learning skills by providing immersive, interactive experiences, opportunities for hands-on learning, and opportunities to develop problem-solving, critical thinking and social-emotional skills.

(The author is Co-Founder & VP – Product and Strategic Alliances, iXR Labs)

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