A “Teaching for Sustainability” Bingo
Yesterday I posted a first draft, today I have a much more finished version for my upcoming course…
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iEarth GeoLearning Forum 2023 Bingo
Unfortunately, I can’t join the iEarth GeoLearning Forum in person today, but at least I can be there in spirit (and contribute with a Bingo to be played during an…
How to create an Activity Bingo for teaching purposes
We have recently shared our experiences with a Bingo game to nudge students to make the most out of fieldwork (Glessmer et al., 2023), and I have created Bingos for other…
Dive camp bingo
While on the Bingo trip to nudge people (see here for example for fieldwork activities for students, or Universal Design for Learning for teachers), why not make one for the…
Published now: “Activity bingo: Nudging students to make the most out of fieldwork”
Kjersti and I, together with Linda and Francesco, just published an article in Oceanography on the fieldwork bingo we developed for the student cruises earlier this year (and that came…
UDL bingo: challenge yourself!
There are a ton of things on my to-do list for this week before I go on vacation, but I really don’t want to do any of them right now,…
Developing a “student cruise bingo” to make learning visible & fun
I am super excited to work with Kjersti again on an upcoming student cruise next month; she is such a great teacher and it is always inspiring to observe her…
Currently reading: “Stories of hope: reimagining education”
I did not return to my practice of reading one chapter of the “Stories of Hope” book every day right after I returned from my vacation and just too much…
Currently reading: “Stories of hope: reimagining education”
I recently started the daily practice of reading the book “Stories of hope: reimagining education” (first blog post here), and this is how it continues from day 4 to day…
Now published: The book “Teaching fieldwork in geography, earth and environmental sciences”! Summary part 2
This is the second half of my summary of this book, the first half of the book is summarised in this blog post!
Now published: The book “Teaching fieldwork in geography, earth and environmental sciences”!
Feels like a very long time ago, but Kjersti, Hans-Christian and myself contributed two vignettes to the book “Teaching fieldwork in geography, earth and environmental sciences“, which has now become…
Preparing my course “Teaching for Sustainability” with the support of Noah (2025)’s brilliant book
In preparation for this fall’s online course on “Teaching for Sustainability“, I was looking into what kind of methods I want to model. And then — perfect timing — I…
Currently reading Noah (2025) “Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality: A Guide to Crafting Engaging Professional Learning Experiences in Higher Education”
As you saw in my recent post on the first draft of my “teaching consultations menu”, I found a really awesome book on “Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality: A…
Exploring the UDL 3.0 version, inspired by an episode on the Tea for Teaching podcast
It took me a while to appreciate the UDL* framework since I first started looking into it 3 years ago. Without context, it seemed overwhelming in the amount of details…
Co-create your own adventure — our presentation at MNT 2025
Kjersti Daae and myself have a poster at MNT today (kindly presented by Anna-Marie Strehl). Below is the text we wrote for the conference proceedings.
“Should teachers worry that giving students gold stars or stickers for completing writing assignments decreases their motivation?” Currently reading Bardach & Murayama (2025) on “The role of rewards in motivation”
Bardach & Murayama (2025) discuss the conflicting results of studies on motivation, where rewards are found to both increase and decrease motivation, depending on the study. They point out that…
Guest post by Kirsty Dunnett: “Where could Higher Education go? A hopeful perspective”
New super interesting guest post by Kirsty Dunnett, on playful higher education!
Exploring PBL, reflection, student identity, and sustainability in Ginie Servant-Miklos’ work
I am currently in the early stages of co-developing a course, most likely project-based, on sustainability for engineering students. I have written a lot about how I am trying to…
Listening to podcasts on DEI, conspiracy theories, and micro motivation
I’m back to listening to podcasts! I don’t know why it goes in such waves, but here we go with some recommendations from what I listened to in the last…
Reflections on “How do I cultivate a sense of joy, passion, and purpose in my teaching, and how do I share that with my students?”
Mark Carrigan recently asked quesions for a reflective teaching practice on his blog, and one really resonated with me: “How do I cultivate a sense of joy, passion, and purpose…
Thinking about my positionality as a teacher and researcher in academic development
Kirsty “gave me the task” to (that sounds harsher than it was — she pointed me to a super interesting article and we agreed to both) do a concept map…
Structuring fieldwork as a jigsaw to increase student responsibility in, and ownership of, their projects
I am a huge fan of Kjersti‘s excellent teaching, it is always so inspiring! She, together with Hans-Christian, developed a jigsaw method to structure preparation for a student cruise, the…
Revisiting Universal Design for Learning
I have again been chewing on the “Universal Design for Learning” idea for the last couple of days. This was prompted by us agreeing that we want to let participants…
10 years of “Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching”!
Today marks the 10 year anniversary of my blog, “Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching”! This blog is a pretty detailed documentation of my development as a teacher over the last…
#WaveWatchingWednesday
Here is a recap of the last month or so of my #WaveWatching pics on Insta. Enjoy!
Designing postcards to inspire discussion about co-creation methods
One deliverable in our #CoCreatingGFI project (which has a new website! Check it out here!) are a set of postcards to share our experiences with co-creation with other teachers and…
#WaveWatchingWednesday
Shockingly little #WaveWatching currently happening on my Insta @fascinocean_kiel (maybe I also need to reconsider the name at some point?), but here are the latest pictures!
Reflections on the GeoLearning Forum 2021
On October 21. and 22., I attended the fourth iEarth GeoLearning Forum (GLF). The GLF is an opportunity for geoscience teachers and students from all over Norway to meet up and…
