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EAST — A Way Forward: Tech Inspires Self-Directed Learning

Students in the Environmental and Spatial Technology program, at Horace Mann Magnet Middle School, in Little Rock, Arkansas, connect with nature through projects that serve their community.

October 29, 2007

Watch more videos in the EAST series:

  • EAST -- A Way Forward: Tech Inspires Self-Directed Learning

    Students in the Environmental and Spatial Technology program, in Little Rock, Arkansas, connect with nature through projects that serve their community.

  • An Old-School Coach Becomes a Facilitator for EAST

    A teacher finds new inspiration for a different way of teaching though the Environmental and Spatial Technology Initiative.

  • Student Filmmakers Find a Voice Through EAST

    Middle-school students make sense of local history while creating an award-winning documentary in an Environmental and Spatial Technology Initiative class.

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