Digital Explorer is a pioneering social enterprise working to develop young people’s emotional engagement with the wider world through technology and exploration
Fact: Current educational methods and traditional media are failing to foster a sense of care and responsibility for the wider world.
Fact: There are not enough resources to take every young person out into the world to experience it firsthand.
Digital Explorer provides a solution by:
- Putting young people at the heart of the education process
- Taking select groups of talented young communicators on curriculum-based expeditions
- Using the latest technologies to broadcast their experiences to a global online audience
- Working with educators, expeditions, non-profits and the private sector to replicate the model
Digital Explorer achievements include:
- First remote satellite broadcasts from a UK youth expedition back to the classroom
- Live video conferences between Antarctica and the UK classroom
- Award-winning website with the Offscreen Student Expedition 2007 (receiving over 100,00 hits during the 12 day expedition)
- Winner of Royal Geographical Society Innovative Geography Teaching Award
- Training over 250 educators in creating resources using Google Earth
- Over 230,000 hits on Digital Explorer-designed expedition websites for 2041, an organisation dedicated to the preservation of Antarctica
- Helping WaterAid to add their work to the permanent Global Awareness section of Google Earth
