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“In Britain, teachers are for the most part too scattered and too busy to come together frequently for discussion. They require a medium through which they may readily
communicate with one another, exchange experiences and learn the progress that is
being made in method or in appliances in our own country and abroad.”
(Vol 1., No. 1, p. 1 of “The Geographical Teacher” – the first journal of the GA)
James Herbertson, GA President
“Twitter ye not...”Geographical curriculum making & web 2.0
Image: Andy Riley
Who is this bloke ?
September 2008
Last year...
IPSOS MORI
http://www.geography.org.uk/resources/adifferentview/worldissuessurvey
Google Books...
Something else since last year...
The Corruption of the Curriculum
Alex Standish
Geography is ‘no longer about maps’ but indoctrinating young people with ‘environmentalism’ in the name of ‘global citizenship’.
Im
”Children are not the same as they used to be…”
Slide courtesy of Ollie Bray
Image courtesy of Ollie Bray
Curriculum making
Young People’s Geographies
Making Geography Happen
1975
as close as
2045
“The imaginative and stimulating geography curriculum is skilfully
designed to match to the full range of pupils’ needs and to
ensure highly effective continuity and progression in their learning.”
“The curriculum provides consistently high quality opportunities for pupils
to develop and consolidate key geographical skills of enquiry, graphicacy and geographical
communication.”
“Field work is well planned and clearly identified as an integral part
of the schemes of work. Pupils experience fieldwork on a regular
basis, and activities offer clear progression rather than repetition.”
“The key geographical concepts such as place, space, scale, diversity,
sustainability, for example are clearly embedded in the planning.”
“The contribution of geography to community cohesion and the global
dimension is at least good in all major respects, and is exemplary in
significant elements.”
“Excellent links are forged with other agencies and the wider, as well as the global, community to provide a wide
range of enrichment activities to promote pupils’ learning and
engagement with the subject..”
'I now realise geography is not just out of a text book, it's about the
feeling and atmosphere of a place.‘
Young People’s Geographies participant
Student Experiences
Geography: the subjectTeacher Choices
Underpinned by Key Concepts
Thinking Geographically
Which learning activity ?
Does this take the learner beyond what they already know ?
Curriculum MakingCurriculum Making
I see this a lot:Someone is demoing Twitter.
They ask their network why they use Twitter. People respond
“it’s the best CPD I’ve ever received”No. It’s. Not.
It might be the best Continual Professional Stimulation (CPS) you’ve ever received but
development is more than getting a bunch of ideas. Development is:
[The] act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining.
or[A] process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature
stage).
Twittersheep.com700 “followers”
Flooding in Brazil
Palmares, Pernambuco
Ox-bow lakes...
Town a is down river from town b
How can
Town b end up down river from Town a ??
A question from my Twitter network
Image under CC by Flickr user: Mr.Tea
Yell Maps: 3D
http://www.yell.com/maps/MapAction.do?mapSearchType=locSearch&location=birmingham&scrambleSeed=&lat=52.47754811731959&lon=-1.8929699902338306&zoomFactor=2&type=&viewerMode=3dmap&pitch=39&heading=306&height3d=500
What else could BP stand for... ??
• Big Problem
• Big Payout
• Belching Petroleum
• Beach Pollution
???
http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/
A slick idea...
4 hours and 40 minutes....
World Cup 2010Gapminder
Controversy...
How much does he earn a week
£90,000 per week from Manchester United.
plus£760,000 twice a year for image rights.£1m a year from Nike for advertising. £118,689 every six months from computer game makers EA Sports. £3.55m for twelve books (yes: that's books: 12 of them)£600,000 from Coca Cola for a four year deal.
Sarah McLachlan – “World on Fire”
Postcode portraits
Finding your ACORN type...
Voyage of the ‘Plastiki’
Iceland Webcams...http://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/icelandlive/#jokulsarlon
GA Resource
Job feeds: BB Park Warden...
“When you have 500 pictures from your vacation in your Flickr account, as opposed to five pictures that are really meaningful, does that change your ability to recall the moments
that you really want to recall?”
Dr. Elias AboujaoudeStanford University
2010 Curriculum for 2021Year 7 Year 8 Year 9
Geography “Boot Camp” (inc. GIS)
Explorer debriefing...
Global stories
Producers & Consumers
Time capsule: futures
Language of Landscapes
A world of work & a job for life ?
Britain 2010-2021
Around the world in...
Weather or not... Geo....... : x-curricular project
School’s out... A butterfly flaps its wings...
Can you tell what it is yet ?
Mission Explore
The blog...http://livinggeography.blogspot.com