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‘Mindtools’ for Geography Teachers
Teaching for Conceptual Development
Terry FogartyB.A (Hon1), MEd, MACE, MACS, PCP
What’s behind technology in the classroom?
Goal 1.6 National Goals for Schooling in the 21st Century states inter alia: that ‘when students leave schools they should be confident, creative, productive and responsible users of new technologies, including ICT’ (MCEETYA, 1999).
Source: NSW Institute of Teachers, 2004
“By the stroke of a ”
Competence
What is a ‘Mindtool’?
‘Computer applications that, when used by learners to represent what they know, necessarily engage them in critical thinking about the content they are studying.’
David Jonassen, 1996
‘Mindtools’ for teachers?
• Software applications (preferably free) that teachers can use to teach conceptual development
• Two types:– Desktop applications– Web-based applications
Desktop Applications
• Need to be installed at school and at home
• Sometimes difficult if school restricts downloads or block sites
• May need to be maintained as new versions become available
• Can be used even if Internet not available
Web-based applications
• Available ‘anywhere, anytime’
• Require connection to Internet to use
• Often not as ‘feature-rich’ as desktop alternatives
Recommendation: Consider both desktop and web-based alternatives
Word Processing
Empower students to select applications
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://docs.google.com
Empower students to select modes of communication
• Synchronous Communications– Appears to be ‘real time’
• Asynchronous Communications– Delay between send and receive
Web 2.0 AsynchronicityRSS
‘Really Simple Syndication’
Automatically delivers new web content to you!
http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
Web 2.0 Asynchronicity RSSAutomatically delivers new web content to you!
http://www.google.com/help/reader/tour.html
http://rsspopper.blogspot.com/2004/10/home.html
Make electronic resources available to students for ‘anytime’ access
http://www.moodle.org
http://www.lamsinternational.com/
LAMS
MOODLE
MyClasses
Wikispaces for Educators
Free for teachers Add-free for students
http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
Make electronic resources available to students for ‘anytime’
access via Web 2.0
Podcastinghttp://www.teachertube.com/
IMAX - Surviving the elements
http://www.imax.com.au/content/resources/Surviving%20the%20Elements%20Joint%20Package%20Info.pdf
Beijing - CRD
http://crd.gov.cn/en/
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/joining-the-dots-to-new-virtualworlds/2007/08/06/1186252627367.html
MS Producer
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/technologies/producer.mspx
Engage students in creative activities
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/11_16/site/geography.shtml
NASA World Wind
World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery and SRTM elevation data to experience Earth in visually rich 3D, just as if they were really there.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
Encourage the use of gamesEducation Queensland
http://www.learningplace.com.au/deliver/content.asp?pid=7669
http://www.learningplace.com.au/defaulteqa2.asp?orgid=35&suborgid=614
Encourage use of programs that contextualise concepts
• Mind Mapping
• Note taking
• Sketching
• Information manager
• Journaling
• Idea organiser
• Outlining
Problem solving using WikiMapia
WikiMapia is a collaborative Web 2.0 project to describe the whole planet Earth. It was created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, inspired by Google maps and Wikipedia.
http://wikimapia.org/
Communities of Practice
Oz-teachers
There is some nice modelling of built environment using Google Earth KMZ files and Sketchup in the London Timeline project http://www.barnabu.co.uk/city-of-london-growth-timeline/ There are also several similar geospatial modelling activities based on sealevel rise modelling, inc Australia. Plenty of geography-based wequests too, depending on your definition of geography. kp
http://lists.rite.ed.qut.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/oz-teachers
What some schools are doing!
Stanhope Gardens “A 24-hour school with no
traditional classrooms and where students use mobile phones and laptops to learn”
“Pupils from kindergarten to year 12 can attend the school between 6am and 10pm.”
Greg Whitby, executive director of schools in the Parramatta diocese
Source: SMH, October 2006
What does the future hold?
• Immediate– User created content– Social netwoorking
• Two to three years– Mobile phones– Virtual worlds
• Four to five years– New scholarship– Massively Multiplayer
Educational Gaming (MMEG)