8. Last 3 months
• Royal Geographical Society – Discovering the Arctic / From the Field
• Google - World Wonders Project – Pilgrim’s road in Spain
• Badger: Better GCSE grades textbook – due April 2012
• Ordnance Survey: Digimap – education pack – 34 activities
• Twig: Notes for geography films & new films on Earth Science –
BETT Award for best secondary digital content
• TeachIt Geography – editing and curation pre-launch
• CPD around the country and beyond
• Mission:Exploring – runner-up Educational Writers’ Award 2012
• Harper Collins: iGCSE textbook / online updates & children’s book
• Open University: VITAL Geography portal management
• National Geographic Education – GAW materials used across USA
• GA GIS courses with ESRI UK…
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20. GIS and Problem Based Learning
Students are often so used to a single “right” answer, and are
initially baffled by PBL-based strategies and tools that engage
those strategies such as GIS. Typically when I work with
students using GIS, they ask me, “Is my map right?” In
response, I ask them a question: “Does your map help you
understand the problem or issue, and help you answer the
questions being asked?” But, given time, they begin to
understand that the issues they are grappling with are
complex, and there might not be a single correct answer.
Certainly, their final set of maps is not the end goal, but a
means to an end in their enquiry-driven investigation.
Joseph Kerski, ESRI
Speaking at the GA Conference on web-based GIS
26. GIS in
theCurriculum
“the subjects
comprising a course
of study…”
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27. What is curriculum making ?
“the creation of interesting,
engaging and challenging
educational experiences which
draw upon teacher knowledge and
skills, the experiences of students
and the subject resource..”
28. What is curriculum making ?
“the creation of
interesting, engaging and
challenging educational
experiences which draw upon
teacher knowledge and skills, the
experiences of students and the
subject resource..”
29. What is curriculum making ?
“the creation of
interesting, engaging and
challenging educational
experiences which draw upon
teacher knowledge and skills, the
experiences of students and the
subject resource..”
