Rob Chambers, head of geography at St. Ivo School, explores the integration of new technologies in geography education, highlighting online resources, social media engagement, and digital tools for assessment and collaboration. Key suggestions include using platforms like Twitter for communication, utilizing apps for understanding assessment, and creating digital libraries for easy access to educational materials. The document emphasizes enhancing teaching and learning through technology, promoting engagement and collaboration among students and educators.

1. “The use of new technologies
in Geography – ideas and
suggestions”
Rob Chambers
Head of Geography, St Ivo School.
@RobGeog rchambers@stivoschool.org
• Online Learning
• Professional Development
• Assessment for Learning
• Digital Curation
• Collaboration
• Digital Mapping
• Organisation
• iPads in Geography
• Creating Teaching / Learning Resources

2. 1. Online Learning – Department Website
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Bringing together all
teaching and learning
resources for the
department “centralised
online home”
Celebrating student
achievement
Promoting the Department
Geographical News
Strengthen connections
with parents
Transparency

3. Blogs
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
‘mini-website’ – quickly
and easily updated
Regular updates and
reminders
Share resources for
downloading for
revision
Host interactive
content to provide
variation in revision
Share with others..

4. The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Twitter Feeds
Department Twitter Feeds:
- Promote
- Collaborate
- Learn
- Share
- GeoTweet Revision
-Reminders
-Engage with students and
parents
- Polls

5. The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
‘GeoTweet’ Revision
-‘Bitesize’ tweet revision
- # used to make searching
easy
- storify used to ‘collate’
tweets from each session –
then shared on the blog.
- students engaging and
even retweeting.

6. The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
TWITTER FEEDSOther social media..

7. 2. Professional Development
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
• Connect
• Learn
• Share
• Network
staffrm

8. The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Teaching and Learning PLN
• new ideas
• collaborate
• shared research
• thoughts on pedagogy
• discussion on latest
educational ‘trends’
• ofsted advice
• fellow subject
specialists
etc.

9. The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Organising your PLN - Tweetdeck
• create lists for
#tag follows
• post from
different accounts
• keep twitter
feeds of different
accounts together
• message direct
•Schedule tweets
etc.
Great desktop
tool

10. 3. Assessment for Learning
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Quick Key
-Quick marking using iPad / iPhone – results
automatically stored in mark book
- Quickly assess knowledge / understanding
and identify misconceptions.
A number of these shared on “Internet
Geography”
http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.
uk/quickkey.html
Evaluating the use of hinge questions and the
Quick Key app – Simon Renshaw
https://srenshaw.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/
evaluating-the-use-of-hinge-questions-and-
the-quick-key-app/

11. 3. Whole range available...
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Plickers..
Only requires teacher
device..
Quickly assess
understanding.
Source: https://plickers.com/
Socrative
Requires student devices
– but several question
types.
Kahoot
Requires students devices
– quick polls / answers to
questions.

12. 5. Digital Mapping http://digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions

13. Using Digmap for presentation of data..
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Very user friendly – great for
accessing maps at range of scales
for data presentation.

14. ArcGIS https://www.arcgis.com/features/
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
A fantastic online
GIS system
Many excellent
features are
available free –
well worth
exploring (easy to
use by both staff
and students).
Great way of
embedding GIS
into the
Geography
curriculum ready
for the new
specs.

15. 4. Digital curation of articles / resources
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
• topic specific ‘magazines’
• research for curriculum
topics
• encouraging flair
• create magazine of your
twitter feed

16. 4. Digital curation of articles / resources
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Create your own ‘digital library’ of articles to support teaching and learning

17. The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Great way of collating
favourites – accessible
wherever you are & can
collaborate and share
favourites...

18. 5. Collaboration #geogshare
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Sharing resources and documents & creating shared files –
in Google docs even work together on ‘live documents....
Slack and Google Hangouts – tools for connecting –
including a messaging app (enabling teams to connect)
(Slack) and Google Hangouts – can video conference with
up to 100 people for free.
Great potential for sharing ideas and
resources in particular to support the new
GCSE and A’level specs – to join – message
Tony Cassidy or Alan Parkinson.
http://sharegeography.co.uk/2016/01/02/intr
oducing-geogshare/
New Geography Dropbox.... (#geogshare)

19. 6. Organisation
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Schedule
Planner
Mark book
Seating Plan
Calendar

20. 7. iPads in Geography
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
From Paul Berry - https://devongeography.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/premier-league-apps-avoiding-app-frenzy/
•Fieldwork e.g.
FieldNotes Pro
•Movie making
•Book Creator
•Augmented
Reality
• Comic Strips
• Animation
• AFL
etc.

21. 8. Creating Teaching and Learning Resources
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Interactive
Revision Guides
Worksheets
Interactive
Displays
Enquiry Work
etc..
Using QR Codes...

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23. The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Interactive Quizzes for websites and IWB

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25. The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Times for pace / exam question practice

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New Technologies to support revision for students..