Sessions
GOMI on EARTH at the iEARN Conference
Yoko Takagi
JEARN
Yoko was born in Fushun, Republic of China in 1940. Learning practical English in my late 30s which drove me to international communication. Careers as Coordinator of Global Education started with Luma phone, a still image video phone, under Hawaii Department of Education in 1985. More than 600 times of video conferencing including...Read Full Bio
Yoko Takagi
Yoko was born in Fushun, Republic of China in 1940. Learning practical English in my late 30s which drove me to international communication. Careers as Coordinator of Global Education started with Luma phone, a still image video phone, under Hawaii Department of Education in 1985. More than 600 times of video conferencing including ISDN and Satellites between schools in Japan and other countries. Met global education network ”iEARN” in Budapest 1996. Since after my interests stay in promoting collaborative learning with children in the world, inviting Japanese children and teachers to iEARN. Attended iEARN Conferece and Youth Summit every summer since 1994. Honored with iEARN Awards.
Type: Interactive Workshop
Location: Room 1103
Date: Friday
Time: 10:30-11:30 AM
This session is associated with a UN SDG!
This session relates to the GOMI on EARTH iEARN Project!
Session Description
During the session, participants quickly experience each step of the GOMI on EARTH Project. GOMI is Japanese for waste. You are “GOMI detectives” at Part I. You follow its long journey to final destination on EARTH. You face "World GOMI Reality“ at Part II. And you are "GOMI activists” at Part III, where you care GOMI and reach your creative GOMI solutions at your house, your school, your community, your country, and our EARTH. The session will also share work done by past participants from countries such as US, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Kenya, Egypt, and others.
What will educators learn and be able to do at the end of the session?
Through this workshop session, participants put their eyes on the long GOMI Journey from throwing a little trash (GOMI) out of our hands to its end at landfill or in the air, or in the oceans on our EARTH. Who knows, it may invade our human society someday. Our goal of this session is how to get people's attention on GOMI and how deepen realization of GOMI on EARTH today.
Additional Session Information
Session participants realize how little knowledge and concerns on GOMI on EARTH in order to keep our Mother land and Ocean as healthy EARTH. Their realization inspires them how to bring this project into their classes and work collaboratively on GOMI forums with other countries through project PART I~PART III. It invites Diversity and Inclusion in Global Education.
Session Resources
GOMI on EARTH
These are the slides for the iEARN Conference session.
GOMI on EARTH
This is a web sites which is up at its start of GOMI on EARTH workshop
GOMI on EARTH
This is a website to use at PART II World GOMI Reality " GOMI Mountains"
GOMI on EARTH
This is a website to use PART II World GOMI Reality -2 "Marine Litter & Micro Plastic in the sea"