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How can you educate students across the world about our most significant global issues? By taking them to the source (via the internet) with the GoNorth! adventure learning program.

GoNorth! takes students on virtual Arctic adventures providing lessons on climate change, sustainable development, and indigenous cultures. University professor of learning technologies Aaron Doering and his team brings scientific research and geographic exploration into thousands of K-12 students’ classrooms in 30 countries, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, India, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom, and across the United States, using satellite communications and multi-media technology.

The team travels by dogsled interacting with students online while transmitting trail reports, sounds and visuals from the trail to share the team’s explorations and experiences each day that synchs to a K-12 curriculum. Students also collaborate with subject matter experts and other classrooms around the world engaging in a dialogue about what they’ve learned.

In 2008, Go North! received the prestigious Tech Awards Laureate from the Tech Museum of Innovation for applying technology to benefit humanity.

“Adventure learning is changing the way students learn and my hope is that this model of distance education will continue to have an impact around the world,” says Doering.

For more information on Go North! visit: www.PolarHusky.com