Workshop W2 – GamED
Date: June 17
Time: 14:00 – 18:00
This workshop offers a new and exciting approach to ESD through a game-based learning and educational technology. Participants will explore how to design innovative game-based activities with SDGs and get practical experience in developing and embedding an ESD implementation plan in all disciplines and modules.
The workshop’s design will allow for cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary collaboration between educators and students. Leveraging the UNESCO key competencies for sustainability, participants will develop critical thinking, self-awareness, and problem-solving skills through interactive tasks and activities, peer-to-peer learning, and innovative pedagogy to transform the learning environment for a sustainable future.
Objectives
- Stimulate engagement through the production of new ideas and future collaboration and networking between universities, staff and students.
- Provide workshop participants an opportunity for practical experience in designing innovative and collaborative game-based activities with SDGs.
- Encourage lively debates and sharing of knowledge among the participants about digital technology and embedding ESD practices for teaching and learning.
- Provide workshop participants an opportunity for practical experience in developing an implementation plan for embedding ESD in all disciplines and all types of modules.
- Encourage future research in the field of digital technology and education for sustainable development.
- Demonstrate examples of change and best practices in ESD and digital technology in an interactive atmosphere.
Intended audience
The workshop will bring together educators, both experienced and early-career, students who wish to gain an understanding of ESD and digital tools and participants across various disciplines, including those not typically associated with ESD. The workshop is suitable for all levels of expertise in ESD and educational technology and all levels of technical skills. The expected number of participants is about 20 and more people.
The workshop is most suitable for people who wish to:
- Get practical knowledge in Activity Design through digital tools
- Embed Sustainability within their Teaching & Learning
- Learn how Digital Tools can be used to enhance student engagement
- Apply Innovative approaches to Teaching & Learning
Agenda
Content
The workshop will cover the following topics:
- The role of educational technology and digital tools to empower ESD, game-based approach, UDL and collaboration
- Peer-to-peer learning and the use of innovative pedagogy for teaching and learning
- Approaches to designing engaging activities and embedding ESD implementation plan in the module
- Approaches to mapping SDGs and competencies with the teaching and learning content
- Practical examples of ESD game-based activities and real-life scenarios
Dynamics
The following is a rough outline of the proposed agenda for the workshop. This workshop uses a participatory approach, where participants actively engage with the workshop content. The participants will get a real-life and practical experience of how digital tools can be used to promote and empower ESD, EDI, UDL, active learning and game-based approaches and activities’ and implementation plan design.
- Introductions, including Ice-breaker and Game ‘Know your goals’ activities
- Interactive presentations, including discussions and feedback
- Practical activities, including future thinking scenario discussions and debates on food and travel footprint
- Networking Break, socialising & networking
- Practical activities, including activities and implementation plan for embedding ESD design and wrap-up activities
Organizer
Dr. Nataliya Romanyatova (SETU, Ireland) is a Postdoctoral Researcher in ESD, Digital Transformation & Academic Integrity and Instructional Designer in South East Technological University (SETU), Ireland. Her background is in the area of education, sustainability, linguistics, research and instructional design.
Nataliya worked as an English language lecturer, associate professor, and instructional designer in several universities in Ireland and abroad. Since her undergraduate degree, she has been passionate about pushing the boundaries of Higher and Adult Education, looking beyond the norm and evaluating how staff and students can be supported and engaged through innovative pedagogical approaches. Nataliya is managing several key university projects on sustainability, which include SETU Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) community of practice, Sulitest pilot launch, ESD Toolkit and Climate Fresk Game SETU CEKO programme. Nataliya is the Climate Justice Universities Union SETU Representative and the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education SETU UDL Lead. Email: nataliya.romanyatova@setu.ie, SETU, Ireland
Dr. Niamh Power (ATU, Ireland) is the current Chairperson of the Environmental Science Association of Ireland. She is a Lecturer and Researcher, in Munster Technological University (MTU), Ireland.
She received an honours degree in Civil & Structural Engineering coming top of her class, before pursuing her PhD in the area of waste management, anaerobic digestion and biogas as a transport fuel. Her interests focus on the area of sustainability with particular expertise in waste management, anaerobic digestion, renewable energy from wastes & crops, nutrient recycling, nutrient recover from wastewater, life cycle analysis and policies & drivers for change and the circular economy. She is involved in a number of large national and EU research projects on the circular economy, solar PV (InVEST) sustainable use of nutrients these projects including (ReNu2Cycle, ReNu2Farm and Phos4You,) and future resilience of the farming sector (SIMONE). Dr. Power also worked on the N-TUTORR project as the sustainability lead for MTU and looked at embedding education for sustainable development within Higher Education. Email: niamh.power@mtu.ie, MTU, Ireland