3. Geography at King’s Ely is all about exploration. We move from the local to the
global, from the UK via Europe to the wider world, and from familiar to unfamiliar
ideas. Geography is an academically robust subject, combining creative elements of
the arts with the enquiry approach of the sciences, with people at its centre.
The department uses an enquiry approach based on the content of the national
curriculum. This enquiry approach is central to what we do: asking those big
questions and investigating, analysing, presenting and reviewing important issues in
the world.
6. PERSONAL ADOPTION OF
TECHNOLOGY
1980 – First computer: ZX80
1982: Apple II programming
1986 – PGCE – BBC Micro Computers
Amstrad PCW8256 – wore it out…
Computer Science: 2nd subject PGCE
Taught ‘A’ level 7 GCSE Computer
Science for five years
An early adopter of technologies…
7.
8. “YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW IT WORKS…”
“THE TEACHER’S
TRADITIONALALLY ISA
PIECE OF CHALK,AND
THE CLOSERANY
MODERNAID
APPROACHES THIS STILL
INDISPENSABLE
MATERIALIN SOME
RESPECTS THE MORE
LIKELY HE IS TO USE IT”
(PAGE & KITCHING, 1981)
10. “A curriculum, to be truly
educational, will lead the
students to unanticipated,
rather than predicted,
outcomes”
John McKernan
US Educator
1984 PGCE Assignment
13. “The urge to map is a
basic, enduring human
instinct.”
Jerry Brotton, professor of
renaissance studies at the
University of London
14. “When we travel, we
travel through an
infinity of simultaneous
stories…. and maps are
a surface over which
these stories are
played out…”
Doreen Massey
15. Image shared under CC license by Ben Hennig of Worldmapper.org and used with permission
“a different view”
17. ArcGIS Online
ESRI StoryMaps
•Free to all UK schools
• https://kingselygeog.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html
• https://schools.esriuk.com/teaching-resources/ - hundreds of
free resources
LINK TO CURRICULUM so it is embedded rather than having
specific GIS lessons, they are geography lessons taught with
GIS.
• London Boroughs: https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/
viewer.html?
webmap=fa57642cb9ce466bbd2310ad0b5eefe7&extent=-0.5407,
51.3028,0.4735,51.676
WANT A DEMO LATER? ASK ME
28. CLEVER BOOKS
AR As with any other technology-enabled learning
initiative, the role of educator is paramount - how the
educator embeds the technology within the curriculum
and designs activities around it, and, most importantly,
how the educator is able to justify/explain to the
student, peers and managers about the role that VR will
play in student learning, engagement and attainment
Professor Shailey Minocha
From engagement to investment
http://www.shaileyminocha.info/blog/2017/10/1/virtual-reality-in-education
38. OPEN UNIVERSITY
PROFESSOR SHAILEY MINOCHA
A geography curriculum leader mentioned about how the resources in the Google
Expeditions could fill gaps in knowledge.
“The thing that is springing to mind at the moment is subject knowledge because a lot of
trainees are coming… We've talked about having lots of disparate traditions of teaching
geography and so geography degrees are very different depending on where you study.
Some people are coming into the profession with very strong physical geography subject
knowledge, for example, but quite weak human geography and that sort of thing.”
39. OPEN UNIVERSITY
The virtual field trips can help educators to prepare them for physical field trips such
as risk assessment, preparing enquiries before the physical field trip and even
planning and hazard analysis about how to manage a group of students.
“ [some teachers] don’t feel confident they understand what they want the children to
achieve as a consequence of doing fieldwork outside. So that would be an area I think
where teachers could see a direct need for CPD and I think that GE[s] [Google
Expeditions] could help with that.”
Used since 2001 when there was the Foot and Mouth Outbreak
41. THE GEOGRAPHICAL TEACHER
DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD
Volume 1 Issue 1 Page 1 (1901)
‘In Britain, teachers are for the most part
too scattered and too busy to come together
frequently for discussion. They require a
medium through which they may readily
communicate with one another, exchange
experiences and learn the progress that is
being made in method or in appliances in our
own country and abroad’
