Noel Enyedy
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Director of Research/CONNECT
GLOBE in the City
In collaboration with UCLA's Institute of the Environment and School Management Project I studied teachers teaching environmental science to urban students using the computer-mediated Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) curriculum. GLOBE is an international project that promotes learning environmental science by having students engage in authentic science.
Students collect meaningful environmental data in their local neighborhood and transmit their data via the Internet to an international database. Students then have access to data displays that are based on the combination of their data and the data collected by other schools around the world.
Our studies focused both on the students and the teachers. For the students, we documented their activity as they transformed the world of nature (literally dirt, water, and air) into the world of culture (numbers, categories, and environmental policy). For the teachers, we examined the interaction between their beliefs, their pedagogical practices, and new technologies.
