The Teaching and Learning Community will focus on activities related to teaching and learning that are important to all levels of the education enterprise ranging from middle school to graduate school. The idea for the LEAD Teaching and Learning Community leverages on the new paradigm of teaching and learning where students are engaged in the learning process by constructing their own knowledge. The activities of this community include but are not limited to the deployment and integration of LEAD applications as they are developed into the various learning environments, and to the evaluation and assessment of these applications. The assessment and evaluation process will be used to generate recommendations that will be communicated to the developers to drive further modification and refinement.

Goals:

1. Provide a service to the geosciences’ education community in areas of new learning environments, dynamically adaptive learning capabilities, authentic learning experiences, data access, data visualization, new modeling environments, and professional training and development for educators.
2. Facilitate and engage in ongoing communication and consultation based on implementation results in order to meet the needs and capabilities of the users at all education levels.
3. Create LEAD enabling environments that identify appropriate and related initiatives to ensure a collaborative effort for improved access to scientific and educational information.

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