Nearly 1,500 educators in the global education community have pledged to go paperless in honor of Earth Day 2010, on April 22. The pledge is not simply about going paperless, it is about making an effort to design lessons that engage students more effectively while reducing our impact on the environment.
Shelly Black-Plock, who writes the TeachPaperless blog proposed the pledge in March and educators from across the globe took up the challenge, including 118 from Texas. One of the educators who has pledged to go paperless for a day is Paul Wood, from Bishop Dunne Catholic School in Dallas.
Wood's students will be exploring ways they can take better care of Earth and will be blogging about what they learn. When asked why he decided to take the pledge, Wood stated, "I think it is important that we try and make every effort possible to reduce our use of natural resources. There are plenty of technologies out there that will allow us to very easily go paperless and we can teach our students best by modeling."
Teachers who would like to make the pledge can still do so by visiting the TeachPaperless blog. Going paperless is not about the day, but about making a commitment to reduce the footprint left by educators throughout the school year.
For more information, visit:
TeachPaperless blog
Paperless Earth Day wiki - resources and lesson ideas
Teach With Video blog
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