look at it this way for tes 09
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TES Education Show: 3rd October 2009TRANSCRIPT
“A curriculum, to be truly educational, will lead the students to unanticipated,
rather than predicted, outcomes”
John McKernan
Look at it This Way: ICT in the Geography
ClassroomAlan Parkinson
Secondary Curriculum Development LeaderGeographical Association
My contact details
alanparkinsonatthega
@GeoBlogs
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About me....
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants
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What I hope to do....
• Outline some web tools that will help support the development of adventurous pedagogy, and suggest how they can be used in the geography classroom
• Connect their use with a Living Geography approach, and to the GA’s manifesto for geography: ‘a different view’
• Share the work of a range of teachers who form part of my Personal Learning Network (PLN)
"As I travel the world, I find myself asking questions
that only geographers can answer..."
Michael Palin
a different view
Why “look at it this way ?”Example lesson activity in handout...
Geographical enquiryStudents as active participants and investigators, not just the passive
recipients of knowledge
Using imagination and creativity to think critically about what we see
BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY
CreatingGenerating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things
Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.
EvaluatingJustifying a decision or course of action
Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging
AnalysingBreaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships
Comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, finding
ApplyingUsing information in another familiar situationImplementing, carrying out, using, executing
Understanding
Explaining ideas or conceptsInterpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining
Remembering
Recalling informationRecognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding
A-Z on Google Earth by Rachel Young
A = Leigh, KentZ = Sleepy Staffordshire
7 sectionsA curriculum resource
Thinking geographicallyLiving Geography
Geography and young peopleInvestigating and exploring geography
Geography and the ‘real world’Curriculum making with geography
“The Met Office admitted this week thatits promise of a barbecue summer was wrong, explaining that it was very difficultto predict what will happen in threemonths time. Meanwhile, they remainabsolutely convinced that they know precisely what the weather will be like a century from now.”
Jeremy Clarkson – August 2009
The Action Plan for Geography
“The Independent” – 23rd Sept
“The central problem of our time is not standards. It is
actually about getting kids to engage with learning.”
Prof David Hargreaves, SSAT
“If you're enthusiastic and have a command of your subject, you don't need
technology. You just need to have a relationship with your pupils, to engage with them, and be interested in them as people, and how they develop. Teachers of different ages and different types have different skills, and they all have a place –
children like variety.” History Teacher quoted in same article
Blogging....2003: GeoBlogs...
• A reflective ‘diary’ of what had been taught, and the pedagogy involved• A means of setting homework and continuing the ‘conversation’ so that the lesson didn’t end when the lesson ended• Sharing student work with a wider audience, and peer assessment with other schools• Communication with colleagues• A ‘filing cabinet’ to remember links I had come across
http://livinggeography.blogspot.com
Juicy Geography: Noel Jenkins
Geography Geek: Helen Young
http://delicious.com/preche/wastefulworldDelicious is an example of “social bookmarking”
“mobilelearning”
New fieldwork...GA Worldwise Challenge
Juniper Hall, September 2009
WordleDigital images
Big Huge Labs : image manipulation
Noel Jenkins“virtual fieldtrips”Exeter Princesshay
360 degree panoramas
Alternative maps...
Flip Video
Make sure you have the latest version
installed on your
machine.
http://googlearthusersguide.blogspot.com
Clone Towns ? Dead hearts ?
Copenhagen – DecemberGoogle Earth Climate Tours
Gavin Brock’s OS Layer
http://www.brock-family.org/gavin/google-earth/osmaps.html
Images.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/geographypages
Hooks....
Online magazine, plus YouTube, plus iTunes podcast subscription
John Davitt
• The LEG (Learning Event Generator)• A series of tasks, and alternative ways of
completing the tasks.• An iPhone app (the RAG) and an Excel
spreadsheet version...• Have made a GEOGRAPHY version, but could
be customised...
narratives : “writing” the earth
Literacy
http://www.kerismith.com/
“Childhood is a branch of
cartography”
Michael Chabon
Bringing your maps to lifeOrdnance Survey Mapping News
Newspapers
NINGSNetworkING
Supporting each other through curriculum change...
Over 1400 members !
Teachers TVRecent series on ICT in the
classroomLogin to download previous
programmes...
Paul Cornish – use of VIDEO in the classroom
Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Flip Video
Paul Cornish
Ideas to Enhance Lessons . . .
• Starter/ plenary - Filming responses on IWB• Mysteries - Camera is the source of information• Explaining – e.g coastal processes• Discussion & debate – video contributions• Vox pop – Interview pupils/ staff before lesson on an issue • Activities – e.g trading game or model building• Assessment – teacher, self, peer etc…• Evaluation – Group project or pupil voice
Enhancing teaching and learning with Flip Video
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Projects . . .
• News Report• Sustainability film• Puppet Show• Visual poetry• Video for parents • Make a film for link school • Competitions • Prospective parents/ Options evening
Enhancing teaching and learning with Flip Video
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Field work
Field Work . . . • Museum trips- video an exhibit and explain…• Geography fieldwork - methods of data collection - motivation - alternative to making notes - AS revision for exam - KS3 Rebranding Canterbury• Video diaries – Year 9 Ypres trip • Video for assembly/ parents
Enhancing teaching and learning with Flip Video
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Tony Cassidy – Social media & “what’s in your pocket...”
The case of the missing person...
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Local hotel owner reports guest as missing.
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Guest named as Mr Jones, mid-thirties, home in the East Midlands, paid cash.
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Last seen 48 hours ago- headed for the Foreland…
locating the Foreland.
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Downloading images…
Mobile phone recovered at the Foreland.
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Off to photograph
Old Harry, will send you a
picture.
Police find bag at the base of the headland.
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Individual recorded as a missing person.
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Police request help with building a profile of the
individual.
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What if they had
a profile?
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Loving the sunny weather I am getting a tan!
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Beachy Head
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Seven sisters
Birling gap
Seven Sisters…I love you
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Recent activity- Beachy Head commented on Seven Sisters wall post.
Hello neighbour. The tide is high
Yes, those waves are eroding my side x
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Hello, I am Beachy Head, Britain’s highest chalk cliff. I live near Eastbourne in East Sussex. I’m married to one of the Seven Sisters in Seaford and I love the sun x
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The weather’s atrocious and Nessy’s not sayin much!
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Name: Loch Ness
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What’s the weather like over there……WET!!!!
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Nessy rules
Shimmering from the light!
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Too many people splashing around.
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Dr.Blue Lagoon says: I wish people would stop skinny dipping in me!
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I’m fed up of being dormant. I fancy some action!
I am flying to the Westmann Islands for some peace and quiet. Catch ya later ;)
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I just hurled some water 70 ft high. You should have seen their faces lol
I am a large geothermal spa located in the south west of Iceland. I have an average
temperature of 40 degrees and people are forever taking their
clothes off to bathe in me!
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I love Iceland
Fans of the Blue Lagoon.
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Mayon Volcano is thinking it’s time for a pyroclastic flow.
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Mayon Volcano is feeling hot, hot, hot!
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Thanks, my owners will be rich! x
You should see my rice yields this year!
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I am an active stratovolcano in the Philippines. Renowned as the "Perfect Cone" because of my almost perfectly conical shape .
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Mayon uploaded a photo- ‘’My photo when I erupted September 1984’’
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I hate those boat tours…more pollution!
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BBC filming a documentary on me I get really fed up with people filming about me.
Lovely scenery Nile loving it
I wish I was as big as you.
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I am about 6,670 km in length and I am the longest river in Africa and in the world.
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I love watching all these people climbing my stairs!
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Eiffel tower is now playing Farmville.
Just had loads of people taking photos of me.
It’s Nearly 12 .
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U Mapper – make your own “find a location” game
VisualisationAgeing Britain: Office of National Statistics
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/ageingintheuk/agemap.html
Gapminder
Gracenote Music Mapshttp://www.gracenote.com/map/
Cultural Geography of Music...
Vocaroo.com
Wallwisher
Wordle
“Pupils want to learn. If you forget that, give up and get out
of the profession...”Neil Winton
Teachmeet SLF 09BBC Scotland – 23/09/09
You are not alone...
and finally....“Look at it this way”
Available from GA shop later this month
Thanks for coming – safe journey home !
alanparkinsonatthega
@GeoBlogs
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Acknowledgements
• Map Head image: Strangemaps Blog• Images of Otzi: Otzi Museum• Climate map: Centre International de
Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement and Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie, Météo-France
• Alec Couros, Networked teacher• Other images by Alan Parkinson, made available
under Creative Commons
AcknowledgementsTeacher / colleague ‘giants’ on whose shoulders I have stood today:• Noel Jenkins: Juicy stuff• Tony Cassidy: Facebook template and mystery bag• Kenny O’ Donnell: Twitter conversations• Richard Allaway: Hjulstrom curve and IB goodness• Helen Young: Geekiness with the Mr. Men• Liz Smith: Facebook brilliance• Daniel Raven Ellison: Urban Earth and Journey Journal• Jamie Buchanan Dunlop: Digital Exploring• David Rogers: Social networking• Ollie Bray: Ever present• David Lambert, Ruth Totterdell & John Lyon – GA colleagues• Staff of Juniper Hall Field Studies Centre: Worldwise