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Great idea

staitz — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:17:41 +0000

This is an amazing and a unique opportunity for students, the leaders of tomorrow, to work together in order to better understand issues that will have a direct impact on their lives. The conservation of energy is an amazing place for our students to begin to study. It will also provide the students with a chance to work with students from different schools and learn from each other. These students are all going to share this world, they should start thinking about how to make it a better place now!

Schooling them

SK — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:54:54 +0000

I agree it is useful to have it interactive with schools

Weakness: Is there funding available for making big changes to the school? (Lighting improvments in building envelope)

It is a wonderful idea. It

cgasner — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:21:24 +0000

It is a wonderful idea. It is a good endeavour for the students to become more aware of the environment.

Marvelous idea!

jrotem — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:08:28 +0000

I think it is a terrific idea to engage all the students in this project.

another step towards repairing the world

sigal — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:47:56 +0000

This important collaboration for energy conservation is yet another step that we are all trying to do towards saving this planet for future generations and teaching our students how to be better at that.

Schooled

hart — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:44:44 +0000

The concept is good but like others I also feel the name needs to be worked on.

Great idea, we need to engage

fern.glowinsky — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:48:28 +0000

Great idea, we need to engage children in a meaningful way in terms of impacting the environment. Start with grade 8 but extend more broadly to other grades over time.

Eco-schools and Eco-Challenges

Zell — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:58:26 +0000

I shake my head and wonder why and shake my head on how Club Peguin http://clubpenguin.com/

could have been sold for 800 million to Disney.

Comes down to for kids..."I am bored" if a child in school is bored with their work, teacher, parents they simple do their own thing.

But when a kid feels there is something to lose or gain... then maybe they will be more engaged to participate.

There are so many organizations to help teachers develop and share knowledge like http://knowledgeontario.ca/

As a researcher I marvel at the splinter mentality of groups in the non Profit realm and how the lack of funding has bred do gooders into hungry grant writers and needy people that can't even afford to pay bills.

Why is it that groups like http://www.charityvillage.com/ still can't help everyone who does great things for our society?

Why is it that we can't give teachers and students activation tools to get into the groove of saving the planet?

Whats happened to Eco Schools

Zell — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:46:31 +0000

What is stopping Eco-Schools from moving ahead?

There are over 1000 schools that have adopted the program and are trying to get the gold certification of a Eco-school requires manual based auditing that happens over a 3 month period in spring.

Why not all the time?

How will Inter-schools build the bridges to the TDSB and the other Public school boards in a streamlined way?

Why is Eco Schools have such a high rate of non participates?

Having students make

cschel — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:58:49 +0000

Having students make classroom connections to their daily lives.