"On the seventh day God didn't rest. He looked at what he had created and

thought: 'Oh dammit, England's gone all wrong. The sea is washing silt off the

coastlines in the north and depositing them in an ugly bulbous lump near Kent'. Today

we call this unholy place East Anglia."

Jeremy Clarkson

Living GeographySuffolk Geography Conference 2008

Session 1

Alan ParkinsonSecondary Curriculum Development Leader

Geographical Association

My contact details

alanparkinsonatthega

aparkinson@geography.org.uk

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UPDATE (10 minutes)

The Food Crisis• I am writing a unit for the Training and Development Agency• This will eventually be available as an ONLINE CPD unit• I would like some teachers to look at the ideas and give some feedback, and then to trial some of the resources that are created• Form an orderly queue....

BECTa ICT KS4 ProjectNow ‘live’ on GA website

http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/ks4ict/projectideas

New GCSEsComparison on GA website

SfE Conference 2009Join the debate on the GA Ning

GA Conference (SPC)“Transforming Tired Topics”

“Textbooks: everyone’s guilty pleasure”“Doorstep geography”

“Food Crisis workshop”

Young Peoples Geographies

Well done to Hadleigh High SchoolHardwick High School

Also ‘Centre of Excellence’ (only 8)Deben High School (2007)

Well done toGisleham Middle School (Bronze, 2008)Pakefield Middle School (Silver, 2007)Beyton Middle School (Bronze, 2006)

SAGT 08Geography and the Media

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CfBT GIS If you can arrange a venue and get a group of teachers there, I will come along and do some

free training...“use varied resources, including maps, visual

media and geographical

information systems”

KS3 PoS

Living Geography Conferences 2009

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 ?

Living GeographyLiving Geography

Living Geography:

• embraces young people’s geography and experiences• is current and future oriented• is local but set in wider (global) contexts• raises questions of change, sustainability and development

In pairs or threes... (3 minutes)

Top Ten Tips

“the only way to have a good idea is to have a lot of

ideas...”Winston Churchill

Transformative Innovation

Areas for schools to develop – how many of these are happening in your school already ?

• Digital inclusion: educational equality for all ?• Learning spaces: transformed physical and virtual environments• Mobile learning: handheld technologies being used in the classroom (and outside)• Learner Voice: listening to and acting on the voice of learners• Use of games• Informal learning: outside support / VLEs

Creative Enquiry CycleChris Durbin

Keith Grimwade

What is Creativity ?

•   Creativity involves thinking or behaving imaginatively; • This imaginative activity is purposeful: that is, it is directed to achieving an objective; • These processes must generate something original; (this is explained as being something new to the learner – a new discovery, a new way of thinking to them)• The outcome must be of value in relation to the objective DfES response to Roberts Report (2006) and based on NAACE All our Futures and work by QCA

Living Geography:

• embraces young people’s geography and experiences• is current and future oriented• is local but set in wider (global) contexts• raises questions of change, sustainability and development

Clay Shirky

“the best tool ever invented for improving communication is

the table...”

Christmas... Ho ho ho....

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CREDITSRoad sign Image: Jack Davison (FLICKR) & GA MemberSome slides:Roth TotterdellFred MartinChristine Lloyd Staples