‘Mindtools’ for Geography Teachers

Teaching for Conceptual Development

Terry FogartyB.A (Hon1), MEd, MACE, MACS, PCP

tfogarty@une.edu.au

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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

Source: NSW Board of Studies, 2002

In teaching for conceptual development teachers will use ICT to:

In teaching for conceptual development, teachers use ICT to: 9 ‘simple’ elements for teaching

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

Web 2.0

Word Processing

Empower students to select applications

http://www.openoffice.org/

http://docs.google.com

Google for Educators

http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

Web Browser

http://www.4-free.cc/

Empressr (Presentations)

Empower students to select modes of communication

• Synchronous Communications– Appears to be ‘real time’

• Asynchronous Communications– Delay between send and receive

SynchronousCommunications

CHAT ROOM

VOIP - Voice over IP

Video Conference

Web 2.0 Synchronicity

flatplanet.wkispaces.com

Asynchronous Communications

@email Discussion Board

Web 2.0 Asynchronicity

https://www.blogger.com/start

Web 2.0 AsynchronicityRSS

‘Really Simple Syndication’

Automatically delivers new web content to you!

http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

GTA Forum

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

Noodle (wiki)

EdNA Moodle/LAMS Groups

FREE FOR TEACHERS

http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/

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/

Use information from online sources

http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/

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

Juicy Geography

http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/ictres.htm

MetLink

http://www.metlink.org/intro.php

Radley College - UK

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/radgeog/HMC/hmc_html/HTML/sld002.htm

Use Learning Objects

http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/node98

BELTS

http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/node98

EdNA Learning Objects

StudySearch

http://www.studysearch.com.au/

Provide processing and presentation tools

MS Producer

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/technologies/producer.mspx

Toondoo

http://www.toondoo.com/Home.do

ReadWriteThink

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/

Engage students in simulations

http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/gameintro.htm

http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/

http://geosim.cs.vt.edu/

Engage students in modelling

www.sketchup.com

Modeling

http://www.barnabu.co.uk/city-of-london-growth-timeline

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/

EduSpace

http://www.eduspace.esa.int/

My Wonderful World

http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/

Quikmaps

http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/

ClustrMaps

http://clustrmaps.com/index.htm

Mash-ups

http://www.programmableweb.com/mashups

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

http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/gamemaker/default.htm

Tasmanian Department of Education

Gamemaker

http://www.yoyogames.com/make

FARM SIMULATOR

Scratch

http://www.scratch.mit.edu/

www.geosense.net

Test your knowledge of world geography alone or against another online player.

Encourage use of programs that contextualise concepts

• Mind Mapping

• Note taking

• Sketching

• Information manager

• Journaling

• Idea organiser

• Outlining

Encourage use of programs that contextualise concepts

http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/

Outliner

http://www.bruceeisner.com/mindware/2004/04/ecco_pro_one_of.html

To Do Lists

http://www.tadalist.com/

XTimeline

http://xtimeline.com/index.aspx

Google Timeline & Maps (Mash-up)

http://www.google.com/experimental/index.html

Teachnology

http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/timelines/

Concept/Mind Maps

C-Map

http://cmap.ihmc.us/

Bubbl.us

http://bubbl.us

Mindmeister

http://www.mindmeister.com/

Kayuda

http://kayuda.com/

Mindomo

http://www.mindomo.com/

Del.icio.us

http://del.icio.us/

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/

Puzzles & Problems

http://www.playkidsgames.com/problem_solveGames.htm

Geography Zone

http://www.geographyzone.com/new/index.php

Web Quest Builder

http://www.aclresources.net/webquests/create.html

Web Quest Builder

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/staffdev/tpss99/mywebquest/index.htm

Web Quest Builder

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/

Hot Potatoes

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

Puzzle Maker

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

Engage students with virtual objects

http://www.multimediaphoto.com/english/pano360/index.html

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/movies/Stromboli/Stromboli.html

Engage students with virtual worlds

http://www.secondlife.com/

http://www.secondlife.com/

Other ‘Mindtools’ for Teachers

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://www.camstudio.org/

PDF Online

https://www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp

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

RubricMaker

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

Rubric Maker

http://teacher.scholastic.com/tools/rubric.htm

Constructivist learning sequences

Adapted Gágne Theory of Instruction

Nine Instructional Events

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)

IMAX ICT

http://www.imax.com.au/content/resources/IMAX_SYDWILDLIFE_STE.pdf

Cartoons for Homework

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/

Top 100 Learning Tools

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html

Web Quest Builder

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/