“a different view”What’s your view ?SAGT October 2009

Animoto will now accept VIDEO

Alan ParkinsonSecondary Curriculum Development LeaderGeographical Association

Who am I ?2005: Magic Realism: Virtual Geography and Online Communities2006: Google Earth: a Users guide2007: Getting beyond “cut and paste”2008: Turn on... tune in... Geography !”2009.... TODAY !

This year’s Pixar film

“nail houses...”

“One must come out of one's house to begin learning.” Ghanaian Proverb

Toronto

Seattle, USA

Chongqing: Wu PingStood out for 3 years against shopping mall

“Amazing Places : SoW”

“It's never the technology thatentertains an audience, it's what you do with it.”John Lasseter, Disney Pixar Head of Animation

Image: Flickr user Cushdy2 contexts for the workshop

The Manifesto....

“Manifesto”

Toolkit book: “Look at it this way”£11

Image: Flickr user Highranger

What’s your viewof the manifesto ?

The Package: the booklet plus....Glossy A1 PostersSupporting articlesWebsiteCPD guidanceImage setsTeachers’ guide

Fred Martin..as a resource...

Fully funded by the GA7 sectionsA curriculum resourceThinking geographicallyLiving GeographyGeography and young peopleInvestigating and exploring geographyGeography and the ‘real world’Curriculum making with geography

7 sectionsA curriculum resourceThinking geographicallyLiving GeographyGeography and young peopleInvestigating and exploring geographyGeography and the ‘real world’Curriculum making with geography

SAGT Conference Theme“Today’s GeographyTomorrow’s World”FUTURES

‘What is exciting about geography is that it is the first curriculum subject in the UK to take seriously the need for critical and creative thinking about the future’ David Hicks

IPSOS MORIResearch conducted for the Geographical Association in 2009http://www.geography.org.uk/aboutus/adifferentview/worldissuessurvey/

Learning about people’s lives elsewhereHow important, if at all, do you think it is for people your age to learn about the issues affecting people’s lives in different parts of the world?Not at all importantDon’t knowNot very importantVery importantFairly importantBase: 598 children aged 11-14 years old in England, 15-22 January 2009

Learning about future changeTo what extent, if at all, do you agree or disagree with the following statements? It is important to learn/think about …How the world I live in may change in the futureChanges to the world around me and why they occurWhere the things I use, such as food, energy and water, come fromPeople, societies and cultures in other part of the worldBase: 598 children aged 11-14 years old in England, 15-22 January 2009

More time needed learning about wider worldTo what extent, if at all, do you agree or disagree with the following statement? There is not enough time spent on learning about the wider world in school?Don’t knowDefinitely agreeDefinitely disagreeTend not to agreeTend to agreeBase: 598 children aged 11-14 years old in England, 15-22 January 2009

Fully funded by the GA7 sectionsA curriculum resourceThinking geographicallyLiving GeographyGeography and young peopleInvestigating and exploring geographyGeography and the ‘real world’Curriculum making with geography

How do geographers think ?

“teachers as learners”Professor David Lambert: “my boss”...

“The Met Office admitted this week thatits promise of a barbecue summer was wrong, explaining that it was very difficultto predict what will happen in threemonths time. Meanwhile, they remainabsolutely convinced that they know precisely what the weather will be like a century from now.”Jeremy Clarkson – August 2009

7 sectionsA curriculum resourceThinking geographicallyLiving GeographyGeography and young peopleInvestigating and exploring geographyGeography and the ‘real world’Curriculum making with geography

Part of teachers’ role is to help students: ‘extraordinarily re-experience the ordinary’Ira Shor

Language of LandscapeSent out with OS Maps for 11 year olds

“a different view” of Edinburgh

1960s...

2009 ??

Other contexts related to everyday experiences of young people...HOLIDAYSCLOTHINGFOODSPORT???WATERMUSIC & MEDIAHOBBIES

Scenic or not...http://scenic.mysociety.org/Images from GEOGRAPH‘a different view’ of the same picture...Is it possible to apply a numerical value to an image without knowing the context ?Do we always provide sufficient context, or perhaps too much context for the learners ?

Marks out of 10 for pictures...

Where are the images which gained the highest scores found ?Scotland

Landscape Photographer of the YearWinning entry

SoundscapesImage: Flickr user: Rune T

Gracenote Music Maps http://www.gracenote.com/map/

Fully funded by the GA7 sectionsA curriculum resourceThinking geographicallyLiving GeographyGeography and young peopleInvestigating and exploring geographyGeography and the ‘real world’Curriculum making with geography

“Portraits” of Landscapes

Toolkit book: “Look at it this way”

Capturing landscapes...Image: Val Vannet with thanks..

Toolkit ActivityWriting Task“Each time the doors sighed open at a lighted station they let in a gust of subterranean wind. It tasted metallic, of burned carbons and newsprint – a warm, industrial mistral, as particular to the city as Big Ben or red buses, quite different from the rotting vegetable odour of the New York subway or the reek of Gauloises in the Paris Metro. Everyone aboard the carriage had mastered the trick of looking as if they were alone in an empty room.”Jonathan Raban

You are not alone....http://geographical.ning.com –over 1000 members

“mobile / handheld learning”

After today....

The “Journey Journal”...

AcknowledgementsAll images by Alan Parkinson, exceptSlides 1 & 3: Image copyright Seth Johnson, 2008Slide : Image Jack Davison (GA member !)Slides 4 : Image Sally ParkinsonSlide 57: ICT Snowpatch: Val VannetFlickr users: RuneT (Headphones), Cosmic Jeep (Ailsa Craig)iPhone slides from the B3TA competition submissionsThanks to Richard Allaway for Twitter ChallengeLiving Geography logo by Ledgard JepsonUP images copyright Disney Pixar Ltd. 2009Language of Landscape produced by Natural England in association with the OS and GA.Journey Journal produced by The Geography Collective and Can of Worms Publishing – logo by Tom Morgan Jones

Other avenues to explore....http://livinggeography.blogspot.com – my daily blog – over 1000 postshttp://www.geographycollective.co.uk - home of Mission Explore and the Journey Journalhttp://www.naturalengland.org.uk – download “Language of Landscape” and supporting materialshttp://www.naturalengland.org.uk/gettinginvolved/language-of-landscape/default.aspxhttp://www.geographyalltheway.com – Richard Allaway’s site, for your CPD needs, visit http://www.geographytraining.net