Education app for students to engage in independent, project-based learning towards decarbonising their schools

Solar Options for Schools Ltd项目的主要目标是：* 开发和测试创新的可持续发展教育（ESD）学习移动的应用程序，该应用程序将使用移动的手机上的地理功能提供情境/体验式学习，鼓励学生进行有关能源和可持续性的学习“旅程”，并最终激发他们学校的太阳能项目。这将提供学习-行动-分享、基于地点和项目的可持续发展教育体验，而这种体验不存在于数字形式中。评估应用程序的使用在多大程度上可以改变行为以降低碳排放。*为了评估我们的太阳能项目开发成本降低的程度，因为该应用程序使学生能够在开发太阳能项目时迈出第一步，从而使太阳能更容易进入学校，甚至是光照水平低于南方的北方学校。Solar Options for Schools Ltd将创建和测试应用程序的原型，该应用程序通过使ESD学习个性化，情境化和数字化。通过其提供可持续发展教育的能力，应用程序将在移动的（而不是通过电脑或平板电脑学习）将使更多弱势儿童平等获得学习和技能，并通过继续教育和激励下一代在面对面的时候更可持续地生活，有助于加快向净零碳社会的过渡。如果可持续发展教育的学习因疫情而停滞不前，许多年轻人的教育也可能停滞不前，脱碳将变得更加困难;另一代人将无法学习旨在实现可持续同居的技能。过渡到净零碳社会将需要更长的时间。这个实验性开发项目引入了一种全新的ESD方法，同时应对COVID-19大流行带来的限制（和机遇）。

The key objectives of the Solar Options for Schools Ltd project are:* To develop and test an innovative Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) learning mobile App, which will be using geo-functions on mobile phones to provide contextual/experiential learning, to encourage pupils to take learning 'journeys' about energy and sustainability and ultimately inspire a solar project at their school. This will deliver the Learn-Act-Share, place- and project-based ESD experience that does not exist in a digital form.* To assess the extent to which use of the App can change behaviours to lower carbon emissions.* To assess the extent to which our solar project development costs are reduced due to the App empowering students to take the first steps in developing a solar project, resulting in solar power becoming more accessible to schools, even those in the north where light levels are less than in the south.Solar Options for Schools Ltd will create and test a prototype of the App that is innovative by making ESD learning personalised, contextualised and digitised. Through its ability to deliver ESD, the App which will be on a mobile (rather than learning delivered by a computer or tablet) will give more disadvantaged children equal-access learning and skills and could help quicken the transition to a net zero carbon society by continuing to educate and inspire the next generation to live more sustainably at a time when face-to-face ESD is not possible.If ESD learning falters due to the pandemic, the education of many young people may also falter and decarbonisation will become even more difficult; another generation will not learn skills aimed at sustainable cohabitation. Transitioning to a net zero carbon society will take even longer. This experimental development project introduces a completely new approach to ESD, while responding to the limitations (and opportunities) that the COVID-19 pandemic has presented.