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A place where Ecology & Spirituality Collide

Nature-based technologies are increasingly the answer to complex issues faced by cities.The Lo—TEK Curriculum offers various perspectives, by addressing the following questions—

How can the built environment and indigenous philosophy co-create a sustainable future?

How can stakeholders from youth to policy makers engage in this process?

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Living
Curriculum 
Offerings

Scholar Material

Offered as a web interface for secondary and college level students as well as individual and community learners including:

  • Identity Research

  • Concept Exploration

  • Synthesis

  • Phenomena-based Thesis Project

  • Access to Lo-TEK knowledge-sharing network

  • Empowers learners to make personal connections to who they are, where they come from and why they are here.

  • Embodies creative projects around core concepts embedded in our environmental landscape.

  • Enhances interdisciplinary-minded thinking through a connective embodiment of diverse sectors.

Facilitator Material

Offered as a PDF resource for institutional and organizational memberships. 

  • Sample learning plans

  • Discussion protocols and guides

  • Lists of potential virtual and in person speakers

  • Lists of potential land based learning initiatives

  • Transferable templates for furthering autonomy around note-taking, writing, reflection and more...

  • Guides pedagogues through sample learning plans.

  • Provides creative options for laying out the curriculum for schools—a unit, a semester, a year or a four year sequence—. Whether a research class, an English class, a science and history collaboration or an elective. Or, an organization—a series of professional developments, a one-week deep dive.

  • Offers innovative resources that enhance any purpose or learning atmosphere.

  • Inspires post secondary exploration and overall understanding of life purpose. 

Phenomena Based Project

Offered as a web interface including:

  • Thesis project developed through individual  curiosities and interests  

  • Engaging project page and community forum

  • Opportunities to challenge and build contemporary realities and norms through indigenous, nature-based systems

  • May follow a traditional track that uplifts academic, collegiate research and ends in a proper thesis with a round table presentation.

  • May take a more hands on, community approach that leads into working with a local organization in order to learn or influence justice work, design practices, and integration of knowledge.

  • May be geared around technological innovation and the creation of new technologies that get presented to government officials.

  • The options are endless. 

Land Based Learning

Offered as online material through partnership with The Omni Institute, including;

  • Availability for land-based learning experiences 

  • Opportunities for outdoor, nature-based learning and connection

  • Offers access to nature-scapes across New York State and beyond.

  • Gives scholars an opportunity to connect and design in nature.

  • Lends itself to inquiry through observation and exploration of flora, fauna and self.

  • Practices giving gratitude to found art, groupthink and the transcendent power of natural environments.  

Offered as a web interface for all learners, including:

  • Interactive platform for sharing Lo—TEK curriculum projects 

  • Online forum for communication with other students, educators, and indigenous advisors 

Community Space

  • Rehumanizing—reconnecting with the wholeness of our world, ourselves and our communities.

  • A place for storytelling, discussion, co-planning and creating.

  • A place for us to truly figure out—who we are, why we are here and what it is we are supposed to do now.

  • A place to thrive and innovate with thinkers, designers and change-makers all over the world. 

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