ENGLISH PROJECT ‘OUT OF EDEN’   2020-2021

 An initiative of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

This is the third course-year that the students of 2nd of ESO of our High School INS Lo Pla D’Urgell collaborate with the project ‘Out of Eden’. This is a free online learning program for youth around the world.

It is a very specific virtual learning community of the Zero Project (University of Harvard), designed to accompany Paul Salopek (journalist of National Geographic) in his Out of Eden Walk project. Paul Salopek ‘s 21,000-mile odyssey is a decade-long experiment in slow journalism. He is walking the pathways of the first humans who migrated out of Africa in the Stone Age and made the Earth ours.

Students in classrooms around the world are grouped into small and diverse learning groups to jointly undertake a “learning trip.” They complete weekly activities, post their responses, and read and respond to the messages of others.

Our students will complete two trips or journeys which consist of 6 didactic units each, so they will complete 12 didactic units. These are called ‘footsteps’, imitating Paul Salopek’s journey. Our students have already done very nice and good footsteps so far and have shared ideas and comments with students around the world.