3. Who am I ?
2005: Magic Realism:
Virtual Geography
and Online
Communities
2006: Google Earth: a
Users guide
2007: Getting beyond
“cut and paste”
2008: Turn on... tune
in... Geography !”
2009: A Different
View – GA Manifesto
2010: TODAY !
8. “Language provides the medium for
learning geography in every classroom
and should therefore be a major
consideration in the planning and
preparation of lessons.”
Graham Butt, University of Birmingham
Originally contained in 2nd edition of Balderstone and Lambert (2010)
9. What does it mean to be literate
in geography ?
How can we support the
developing of literacy in
geography ?
How can literacy be embedded
into our planning ?
15. Produce a code: How to be a responsible tourist
Either:
1. Storyboard for an in-flight video
2. Instruction sheet to be located in
the seat pocket
3. Version aimed at younger travellers
e.g. informative cartoons, poster
19. We live in a society where the image is becoming the dominant
means of communication, and where once we used pictures to
illustrate our written texts, increasingly we are using written
text to illustrate the pictures.
Most of us engage with moving image texts more than any
other form of text in any given day, so the development of
literacy skills in young people should recognise that fact.
What links all of these texts is that they are all a form
of narrative, so when we develop literacy skills in young people
what we are developing is the set of skills which will enable
them to engage critically with the range of narratives which are
in the world, and to be able to construct their own effective
narratives.
Bill Boyd, Literacy Adviser, Scotland
20. “The Met Office admitted this week that
its promise of a barbecue summer was
wrong, explaining that it was very difficult
to predict what will happen in three
months time. Meanwhile, they remain
absolutely convinced that they know
precisely what the weather will be like a
century from now.”
Jeremy Clarkson – August 2009
21. So what should we do in
school geography?
Involve young people in:
• Reading imaginative/emotional responses – poetry,
novels, nature writing (also film)
• Expressing personal responses – creative writing
• Drawing on own experiences of being in the world
e.g. walking, sailing, windsurfing, sightseeing
• Doing fieldwork that includes time for reflection,
wonder and creativity as well as other strategies
• Undertaking cross-disciplinary approaches e.g. with
English (Philip Pullman – Noel Jenkins).
22. Homework: Fiction writing
Write the opening of a story which is set in
Kenya. In this you should:
· introduce a main character -write in first person
narrative style
· include reference to factual geographical
information which you have researched, using
technical vocabulary
· encourage the reader to want to read on
· design a front cover & title
23.
24.
25. “Teacher talk dominates
classrooms and controls the
process by which communication
takes place, by deciding what kind
of talk is permissible, by whom
and for how long.”
Margaret Roberts
29. Why get involved with writing about place ?
Eleanor Rawling
• Developments in cultural geography – less detachment more
involvement of self, body and place
• New popular interest in outdoors and active recreation
(running, hiking, coasteering, cycling, photography, triathlon)
especially amongst the young
• Nature writing and nature TV – Mabey, Macfarlane, Cocker,
Deakin.
• Nature/culture debates, CountryFile etc.
• Openings in National Curriculum –developing geographical
imaginations
36. “The traditional Glasgow lifestyle,
with its high consumption of
alcohol, tobacco, fried food, sugar
and salt, is notoriously the least
healthy in Europe.”
Thomas Cook guide
37. Closer to home...
Moving about Norfolk can be fun. I am used to having people point
as I go by. Most shout, "Hey, look, it's a Cosworth!" but in Norfolk
they shout, "Hey, look, it's a car!“
Everywhere else people want to know how fast it goes, but in
Norfolk they asked how good it was at ploughing
They spend millions telling us that it is foolish to smoke, but not a
penny telling us not to go to Norfolk - unless you like orgies and the
ritual slaying of farmyard animals.
The next time some friends get married in Norfolk, I'll send a
telegram. Except it won't get there because they haven't heard of
the telephone yet. Or paper. Or ink.
Jeremy Clarkson
38.
39. Digital Storytelling
“I know only one thing about the
technologies that await us in the
future. We will find ways to tell
stories with them.”
Jason Ohler
41. National Literacy Trust report...
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk
• Young people with a blog (61%) as well as
young people with a profile on a social
networking site (56%) also displayed greater
confidence, believing themselves to be good
writers. Blog owners and young people with a
social networking profile were also more
prolific writers than their counterparts. They
held more positive attitudes towards writing
and computer use, and viewed writers more
favourably
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