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'''<big>Welcome to Appropedia's Portal page for Service Learning</big>'''
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Service learning is a teaching method, which combines community service with academic instruction as it focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsibility. Service-learning programs involve students in organized community service that addresses local/global needs, while developing their academic skills, sense of civic responsibility, and commitment to the community. Here service learning is focused on implementing sustainability in the real world.
''See [[Appropedia:Service learning]] for more detail on Appropedia's service learning programs.''  
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*[[:Category:Service Learning Courses| Service Learning Courses]]
'''Service learning''' is a teaching method, which combines [[community service]] with academic instruction as it focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsibility. Service-learning programs involve students in organized community service that addresses local/global needs, while developing their academic skills, sense of civic responsibility, and commitment to the community. Here service learning is focused on [[applied sustainability]].
*[[:Category: Service Learning Events| Service Learning Events]]
*[[:Category: Service Learning Funding| Service Learning Funding]]
*[[:Category: Service Learning Journals| Service Learning Journals]]
*[[:Category:Service Learning Programs| Service Learning Programs]]
*[[:Category:Service Learning Resources| Service Learning Resources]]


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=== Service learning using Appropedia ===
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[[Image:panelmountsm.JPG|thumb|right|'''Featured article:''' [[Photovoltaic vaccine refrigeration at Centro De Salud|Photovoltaic vaccine refrigeration at health center in Parras, Mexico]], installed by [[Parras 2006|students of Humboldt State University]].]]
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<div style="font-size:125%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000">'''Service Learning <br> Project Linking Tools'''</div>
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Would you like to network with other service learning practitioners?
*[[:Category:Service Learning members| Service Learning members]]
Need a cool project that makes the world more sustainable for your students?
*[[:Category:Service Learning Project Finder| Service Learning <br> Project Finder]]


Your class or your personal research project can be involved with creating new content on Appropedia, on topics, or describing projects you are carrying out. Then, rather than assignments sitting unused on a hard disk, they become part of a structured, useful set of knowledge for humanity, available to all online, [[Appropedia's OLPC content bundle|distributed through OLPC's XO]] (a.k.a. the $100 Laptop), as well as through [[Offline content collaboration|offline distribution]]. Knowing this motivates students and teachers alike.


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Translating content is another form of service learning. A Clarion University student project involved a collaboration between the physics department, which routinely uses sustainable technologies to teach physics, and the department of modern languages and cultures, chaired by Dr. Eleanor ter Horst. Students wrote and translated in the languages they were studying, and were inspired by the experience.


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*[[Service Learning for Sustainability]]


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* [[Portal:Learning]]
*[[Portal:portals|List of portals]]


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<div style="font-size:125%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000">'''Pedagogical<br>Models'''</div>
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*[[Engineering]]


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==Organizations==
Here are some organizations involved in Service Learning:
 
*[[National Service Learning Clearing House]]
*[[Campus Compact]]
 
===To include===
*Cultural Viewfinder
*Outreach Activities and Design Projects
 
Questions?
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Revision as of 19:16, 24 February 2015

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See Appropedia:Service learning for more detail on Appropedia's service learning programs.

Service learning is a teaching method, which combines community service with academic instruction as it focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsibility. Service-learning programs involve students in organized community service that addresses local/global needs, while developing their academic skills, sense of civic responsibility, and commitment to the community. Here service learning is focused on applied sustainability.

Service learning using Appropedia

Featured article: Photovoltaic vaccine refrigeration at health center in Parras, Mexico, installed by students of Humboldt State University.

Your class or your personal research project can be involved with creating new content on Appropedia, on topics, or describing projects you are carrying out. Then, rather than assignments sitting unused on a hard disk, they become part of a structured, useful set of knowledge for humanity, available to all online, distributed through OLPC's XO (a.k.a. the $100 Laptop), as well as through offline distribution. Knowing this motivates students and teachers alike.

Translating content is another form of service learning. A Clarion University student project involved a collaboration between the physics department, which routinely uses sustainable technologies to teach physics, and the department of modern languages and cultures, chaired by Dr. Eleanor ter Horst. Students wrote and translated in the languages they were studying, and were inspired by the experience.

See also

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