2021 Padron Teaching and Learning Symposium: Science Students Engagement in Padron Campus Learning Resources by Way of Immersion in Sustainability

Science Students Engagement in Padrón Campus Learning Resources by Way of Immersion in Sustainability
Beth Cloues, Professor/Librarian, Learning Resources, Padrón Campus 
Rene Revuelta, Professor Mathematics and Natural Science, Padrón Campus

Isabel Duque, Librarian, Learning Resources, Padrón Campus 

This presentation describes a novel approach to significantly engage Padron Campus PSC and BSC students, and MDC Online OCE students to learn to use Padron Campus learning resources via Earth Ethics Institute’s (EEI) Global Sustainability and Earth Literacy Studies (GSELS) activities at Miami Dade College (MDC) Padron Campus. 
The 248 science students in Professor Revuelta’s classes were challenged to:

• Learn through research, reflection, and discussion and not through rote memorization
• Make use of embedded tutoring, embedded librarian, and Ask a Librarian services.
• Participate in learning resources workshops offered by Padron Campus librarians Beth Cloues and Isabel Duque.
• Learn how to employ the College’s numerous and diverse learning resources. 
• Learn in alignment with the way they will be working in the modern workplace. 
• Experience community-based learning and land-based learning.
• Immerse in experiential learning that is project-based focusing on local real-world issues. 

In addition, the science students were further challenged to employ the Miami Dade College library website, library online databases (e-books, articles, magazines, etc.), video streaming (Swank, Kanopy, Films on Demand, etc.), Learning Resources YouTube videos, and Tutoring. They were also directed to Padron Campus writing tutors for assistance with their projects.

The product of the PSC, BSC and OCE students’ efforts is demonstrated by communicating to the campus community what they learned by their participation in the Sustainable Cities Symposium via a series of sessions titled Student Reflections on Reconnecting through Voluntary Simplicity: Sustainability in Miami with Professors Beth Cloues (Library Science), Isabel Duque (Library Science) and Rene Revuelta (Environmental Science)

Presenters' Biography

	Rene Revuelta wrote You Can Be a Minimalist (Yes, You Can) in “Resilience and Earth Literacy.” https://earthliteracy.blogspot.com/2020/09/you-can-be-minimalist-yes-you-can.html Rene co-led the very first Global Sustainability and Earth Literacy Studies (GSELS) learning community.  Aliens Among Us (Fall 2015), partly inspired by Rene’s collaboration with Arizona State University’s courseware Habitable Worlds and Biology Beyond.  Learning about Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) was another source of inspiration. Rene significantly contributed and participated in all GSELS learning communities: Black Lives Matter (Spring 2016), Identity and Adjustment (Fall 2016), IAC Recycles (Spring 2017), Vulnerability and Resiliency (Fall 2017), A Sense of Place (Spring 2018), War (Fall 2018), Peace and Justice (Spring 2019), Zero Hunger I (Fall 2019), Zero Hunger II (Spring 2020), Sustainable Cities I (Fall 2020), and Sustainable Cities II (Spring 2021).
	Beth Cloues is a faculty librarian at Padron Campus. She has been a librarian at Miami Dade College since 1988. She earned a B.A. in French from Kentucky Wesleyan College and an M.S.L.S. in Library Science from Florida State University. Beth Cloues is certified as a GSELS instructor and has used GSELS modules in the LIS 2004 classes she teaches. She has been teaching face-to-face courses since 2006 and online courses for MDC Online since 2009. She has also provided support via Learning Resources to the past GSELS learning communities at Padron Campus.
	Isabel M. Duque is a native Floridian and a daughter of exiled Cuban immigrants. She has a Master's Degree in Library Science, and a Bachelor's Degree in English with a minor in Film studies. Isabel has a background in both academic and public libraries, as well as teaching English literature in public schools. Her life’s work is to transform the library landscape in higher education, create a more inclusive, interdisciplinary curriculum and making curiosity contagious. Isabel’s areas of interest are in storytelling, critical pedagogy, regenerative culture, and liberation studies, all of which are avenues to developing multi-literacies, community, and self.

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This session will be recorded and made available to view after May 1, 2021