Engaging Students in Community Issues

This video, from the 2021 Esri Education Summit, highlights how educators can link abstract concepts to students' lived experience in their local communities and how this can provide engaging learning experiences, strengthen students' investment in their communities, and inspire positive change. In the video, three models for enhancing learning with community-focused activities are provided. For the first model, Wing Cheung, Geertje Grootenhuis, and Craig Jones talk about combating food insecurity and food waste through service-learning partnerships. Cheung introduces service-learning, Grootenhuis highlights food waste issues and solutions, and Jones explores the North County Food Policy Council and how it uses GIS. For the second model, Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg and Monica Shukla-Belmontes explore how GIS can be used for business, equity, and social sciences. Shukla-Belmontes describes infused GIS and Steinberg explores uses of GIS for resilient education. Shukla-Belmontes also explores the empowerment of learners, Brandman programs with infused GIS, the power of engaged teaching with GIS online, and a ground truthed spatial approach to designing with GIS. For the third model, Megan Dixon's presentation "Mapping Paricularity with Added Layers in ArcGIS Online" describes how students can make maps with multiple elements. Examples of student maps are provided. 

The video recording runs 48:59 minutes in length. Additional videos from the summit are available to view separately.