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COLCs Canada -wide Ocean Lit iteracy Study: : Regional Workshops: : Atla lantic June 22 10:30am to 11:30am ET Upon on joi oining, plea lease se: Select preferred language channel (English or French) Ensure your online name is

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June 22 10:30am to 11:30am ET

COLC’s Canada-wide Ocean Lit iteracy Study: : Regional Workshops: : Atla lantic

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  • Ensure your online name is formatted as follows:
  • FirstName LastName, preferred pronoun (Organization)
  • E.g. Julia Ostertag, she/her (COLC, Atlantic RC)

(participants > your name > more > rename)

WELCOME!

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Participant Controls

As a participant, you will have the ability to (by clicking on the control bar icons): Mute / unmute Show / stop video View and participate in the Chat View participants on the call React with a thumbs up or clapping hands Select your preferred language channel (English or French)

*Please note: If you are participating via phone, you may

not be able to participate in all the same ways

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Welcome and Introductions

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Who is in the room? Anyone missing?

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7 Mile Bay Arctic Eider Society Association du bassin versant de la baie de Shediac Back to the Sea Society Biodôme de Montréal Canada's Ocean Supercluster Canadian Network for Ocean Education (CaNOE) CarolAnne Black, Consulting Science Writers Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship (COVE) Clean Foundation Coastal Action Coastal Connections Coldwater Lobster Association Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq Conseil de la conservation du Nouveau-Brunswick/Conservation Council of New Brunswick CPAWS-NL Dalhousie University écH2osystème Environment and Climate Change Canada Équipe d'alphabétisation-Nouvelle-Écosse Esgenoôpetitj Watershed Association Fisheries and Marine Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland Fisheries and Oceans Canada Fishing for Success Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) Gesner & Associates Environmental Learning Green Marine Halifax Regional Centre for Education Illinois Coastal Management Program JASCO Applied Sciences (Canada) Ltd Johnson Geo Centre Laurentian University M - Expertise Marine Maritime Aboriginal Peoples Council Memorial University of Newfoundland MEOPAR Mi'kmaw Conservation Group Jane Affleck, Artist/Researcher Ocean Bridge Ocean Conservation Trust Ocean School/Ocean Frontier Institute Ocean Tracking Network Ocean Wise Oceans Learning Partnership Parcs Canada / #Nature For All Pisces RPM Rambøll Shediac Bay Watershed Simon Fraser University

  • St. John's Storytelling Group

Students on Ice Foundation WWF-Canada

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Agenda

  • COLC ocean literacy study overview
  • Regional Report Highlights: Strengths, Barriers, and Preliminary

Recommendations

  • Advancing the Development of a National Strategy
  • Breakout Group Discussions: How can a national strategy help advance
  • cean literacy in the Atlantic region?
  • Closing Remarks and Next Steps

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Ideas for a Smooth and Effective Zoom Meeting Today

We’ve got an ambitious agenda! Here are some thoughts to guide your participation today:

  • Let’s use the Chat Box to pose questions and share comments throughout the session
  • Let’s use the React options to show support (thumbs up and clapping)
  • Please keep yourself on Mute for the duration of session, except in breakout groups
  • Please to use the “Interpretation” channel to hear the delivery of the presentations in the official

language of your choice

  • Watch for the follow-up survey after the workshop to provide additional input!
  • Please note, the session is being recorded and will be shared post-workshop
  • Most of all… your patience is appreciated as we navigate this virtual engagement

experience!

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Understanding OL in Canada – Study Overview

Interviews Asset Map Nanos Poll National Survey Youth Workshops Media Analysis Arts-Based Research

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OVER 3,000 Canadians & 400 organizations

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Understanding OL in Canada Study

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Research Questions:

1. What is the current understanding and state of OL in Canada? 2. What are the current strengths and barriers of OL in Canada? 3. What are the key recommendations to advance OL in Canada?

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Atlantic Report Highlights

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549 Responses

Regional data:

  • 73 Documents Scanned
  • 61 Interviews
  • 108 OL Initiatives Identified
  • 8 Arts-based Responses (Jane Affleck, P.E.I.)

National data specific to the Atlantic Region:

  • 337 Canadian OL Survey respondents
  • 100 Nanos Poll respondents

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Regional overview

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Key Strengths

  • Relationships and collaboration
  • Place-based knowledge and experiential learning
  • Ocean engagement through raising awareness about plastic pollution
  • Women leaders
  • Two-Eyed Seeing (Etuaptmumk)
  • Workforce development
  • Others? Let us know in the chat!

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Key Barriers

  • Lack of funding and the competitive nature of funding
  • Conflict and lack of trust due to siloed relationships
  • Overcoming human separation from coasts and the ocean
  • Gap in human and ocean health connections
  • Others? Let us know in the chat!

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Preliminary Recommendations

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Preliminary Recommendations

  • Invest in OL
  • Include the ocean as part of school curricula
  • Make the ocean visible and accessible to all Canadians

through a watershed approach

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Preliminary Recommendations – Key Emergent Messages

  • Build trust/break down silos through collaboration
  • Encourage knowledge co-creation projects
  • Develop OL networks regionally/Coordinate regional networks nationally
  • Ensure Indigenous voices, knowledge, languages, and rights integrated from beginning
  • OL is required beyond formal education
  • Communicate OL through media, storytelling, arts, etc.
  • Share research data openly, transparently, through accessible platforms
  • OL that is inclusive and accessible
  • OL that is culturally and regionally relevant
  • Recognize urgency of ecological crises
  • Other? Let us know in the chat!

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Advancing the Development of a National Strategy

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Advancing the Development of a National Strategy - Intended Outcomes

  • Strengthens Canadians’ knowledge & values about the ocean
  • Fosters an ethic of care for the ocean in Canadians
  • Changes behaviours and incites action
  • Influences policy decisions and educates decision-makers
  • Advances reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples
  • Builds bridges and a culture of collaboration within and beyond the OL

community, regionally, nationally, and internationally

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Next phases / Timeline

  • July – August
  • September – October
  • November - December

Potential pathways for strong regional engagement:

  • Collectively flesh out recommendations
  • Assist with building the digital National OL Asset Map
  • Participate in sector-specific working groups (e.g.,

industry engagement, national education framework, etc.)

  • Review drafts of national strategy
  • Other?

Anything else? Let us know in the chat!

Advancing Development of National Strategy – Timeline

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How can a national strategy help advance ocean literacy in the Atlantic region?

Breakout Sessions

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  • 4-5 people per group + a dedicated notetaker
  • Open and inclusive space for constructive discussion
  • Before we bring you back to the main gathering space, your notetaker will prepare 1-

2 key takeaway messages from group discussion to be shared in the main Chat Box

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What did we hear from Breakout Groups? Remember to share one takeaway from your group in the Chat Box!

Regional Insights for the National Strategy

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Wrapping up our Session

What was your experience today? What did you learn? Surprises? A-ha’s? In “one word” please use the Chat Box to share your closing thoughts…! NEXT STEPS: Pathways for Engagement Follow-up survey ‘What We Heard’ summary report

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Thank you for your participation!

Julia Ostertag (Regional Coordinator) : julia@colcoalition.ca Diz Glithero (National Coordinator): Diz@colcoalition.ca

WWW.COLCOALITION.CA @CANoceanlitCO

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Workshop Partners: Regional Research Partners: