The document discusses using GIS technology like FieldScope to support citizen science projects and learning objectives. FieldScope is a web-based GIS that enables students to upload and analyze their own data as well as share data collaboratively. It aims to bring together technology and hands-on outdoor experiences to support real education goals through citizen science and data collection related to nature and the local environment.
Academic Exploration Tool | University of KentuckyTyler Gayheart
The University of Kentucky strives to build the best in class technology and resources to help students succeed. Our latest innovation is the new Academic Exploration Tool (AET) which helps prospective and current students apply their interests and career aspirations to connect with hundreds of academic degree programs offered at UK. AET provides a new way for prospective and current students to search and explore the majors offered at the University of Kentucky. The platform (Drupal 7) has been built from the ground up to meet not only the needs of both prospective and current students, but also UK faculty, staff and advisors. This project involved migrating from curriculum sheets (PDFs), which were routine, unresponsive, and resource intensive. The platform uses college/departmental level taxonomy permissions to allow for every college to edit and update content (revisions) for their degree program. Each program page has been customized with rich images, program statistics, content, curriculum and information specific to that academic degree program. We have utilized the Bureau of Labor and Statistics Public Data API (www.bls.gov) to bring in career statistics, salary information and facts and figures directly from the Occupational Outlook Handbook. Over 5,000 keywords have been imported into the system as taxonomy from UT-Knoxville's “What Can I Do With This Major” resource - this allows for students to search for career keywords that match with one of our degree programs. Keywords continue to improve and expand as users experience the system. Additionally, students can search for academic degree programs via non-cognitive phrases like “I like to be creative”, “I like to solve problems”, “I like to help others” and so on. The site uses responsive design to deliver great experiences across all devices. Additionally, as UK migrates over to a central ecosystem for planning, auditing and registration, real-time curriculum data will be integrated for each degree program via a web-service. This will allow for dynamic PDF printing, downloading and email. Now, students have one central location to search and explore all that UK has to offer. To date, this has helped advisors ‘break the ice’ and start the conversation about career planning and exploration, as well as recruiters and academic colleges communicate their degree programs with efficiency and ease. Learn more at www.uky.edu/academics
Leading e-Learning Integration in Higher Education: Challenges and StrategiesCITE
4 March 2010 (Thursday) | 09:00 - 12:30 | HKU | http://citers2010.cite.hku.hk/abstract/3 | Prof. Carmel MCNAUGHT, Director, Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The aim of this project is to provide a contextualised, social and historical account of urban education, focusing on systems and beliefs that contribute to the construction of the surrounding discourses.
Another aim of this project is to scaffold the trainee teachers’ understanding of what is possible with mobile learning in terms of filed trips.
Academic Exploration Tool | University of KentuckyTyler Gayheart
The University of Kentucky strives to build the best in class technology and resources to help students succeed. Our latest innovation is the new Academic Exploration Tool (AET) which helps prospective and current students apply their interests and career aspirations to connect with hundreds of academic degree programs offered at UK. AET provides a new way for prospective and current students to search and explore the majors offered at the University of Kentucky. The platform (Drupal 7) has been built from the ground up to meet not only the needs of both prospective and current students, but also UK faculty, staff and advisors. This project involved migrating from curriculum sheets (PDFs), which were routine, unresponsive, and resource intensive. The platform uses college/departmental level taxonomy permissions to allow for every college to edit and update content (revisions) for their degree program. Each program page has been customized with rich images, program statistics, content, curriculum and information specific to that academic degree program. We have utilized the Bureau of Labor and Statistics Public Data API (www.bls.gov) to bring in career statistics, salary information and facts and figures directly from the Occupational Outlook Handbook. Over 5,000 keywords have been imported into the system as taxonomy from UT-Knoxville's “What Can I Do With This Major” resource - this allows for students to search for career keywords that match with one of our degree programs. Keywords continue to improve and expand as users experience the system. Additionally, students can search for academic degree programs via non-cognitive phrases like “I like to be creative”, “I like to solve problems”, “I like to help others” and so on. The site uses responsive design to deliver great experiences across all devices. Additionally, as UK migrates over to a central ecosystem for planning, auditing and registration, real-time curriculum data will be integrated for each degree program via a web-service. This will allow for dynamic PDF printing, downloading and email. Now, students have one central location to search and explore all that UK has to offer. To date, this has helped advisors ‘break the ice’ and start the conversation about career planning and exploration, as well as recruiters and academic colleges communicate their degree programs with efficiency and ease. Learn more at www.uky.edu/academics
Leading e-Learning Integration in Higher Education: Challenges and StrategiesCITE
4 March 2010 (Thursday) | 09:00 - 12:30 | HKU | http://citers2010.cite.hku.hk/abstract/3 | Prof. Carmel MCNAUGHT, Director, Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The aim of this project is to provide a contextualised, social and historical account of urban education, focusing on systems and beliefs that contribute to the construction of the surrounding discourses.
Another aim of this project is to scaffold the trainee teachers’ understanding of what is possible with mobile learning in terms of filed trips.
Designing Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Activities: Learners' Agency and Tech...Christian Glahn
Inquiry-based learning (IBL) puts the learners' curiosity into the center of educational experiences. Designing IBL requires to consider the learners' agency in their own learning. As if designing learning activities is not complex enough, learner agency adds an additional layer of design decisions. Based on prior research and projects with different audiences, this workshop structures the design space for creating inquiry learning experiences.
This slidedeck is part of a hands-on workshop for designing mobile IBL experiences. The workshop took place on 11 April 2019 at IADIS Mobile Learning conferences in Utrecht.
This project was developed at Macquarie ICT Innovations Centre (MacICT).
MacICT is located at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. It is a collaborative agreement between the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) and Macquarie University, which provides the opportunity for NSW DET schools access to the use of innovative technologies in teaching and learning.
MacICT’s mission statement:
to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative ways of enhancing learning through the application of dynamic and emerging information and communication technologies.
This projects investigates local ecosystems to identify factors affecting survival of organisms in an ecosystem. Once a shared environemnment is selected, our project teams will work together to collect the relevant data and begin monitoring their ecosystem as a joint collaborative community project
Hive Mapping Cooperative Proposal - February 28, 2014smarziano
Hive Mapping Cooperative Proposal for the Hive Chicago grant. This proposal represents a collaboration between The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Sweet Water Foundation, and Smart Chicago, as an effort to provide teens the ability to collect, manage, analyze, visualize, and share geo-referenced data through open-source mapping and data-sharing software.
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Editor's Notes
Beginning with school children, we want everyone in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to understand how dependent we are on the Chesapeake and its rivers, how our actions affect the health of these waterways, and how we can contribute to the clean-up and protection of these treasures. More than that, we want to create a sense of connection that has been lost over recent decades: We want young people to regain a feeling of connection to the waterways. We want them to feel connected to them as natural, living systems We want them to feel connected to them as cultural treasures that are part of their heritage We want them to feel connected to the community that lives in the watershed. We want students from the James River in Virginia all the way up to the students along the Susquehanna and its tributaries in Pennsylvania and New York to recognize that they are all part of one community that shares the privileges of being part of this great river system and also the responsibilities to each other to care for and protect it.
We are envisioning a future where every student who graduates from high school has had this experience over the course of their schooling. That means that every one of them understands the nature of a watershed and the impacts of their activities. Every student has had multiple opportunities to experience the wonder of nature, the change of the seasons, and the physical experience of the waterways. Every student has participated as a member of a community that spans the watershed in monitoring its health, in looking at ways that we can restore damaged areas, and protect it from future damage. Every student has a connected with other students and other schools outside their local community over the resource that they share.
FieldScope is built on top of a very sophisticated geographic information system platform. In fact, it is the same platform behind the GreenPrint and BayStat applications in use in Maryland. The powerful thing about this GIS platform is that it can connect together data that may be stored anywhere on the Internet and may be updated constantly. It can support numerous different applications. For example, one can build very sophisticated analytical systems for professional analysts and planners, and one can build very simple map display tools for tourists planning a vacation or citizens who want information about water quality in their streams. In some ways, the work that we are doing for an education audience can be seen as a test drive for features that may be found in web-based tools for other audiences… The ability to upload photos that we showed you for documenting water quality could be used by communities to upload images and videos that document the culturally and historically meaningful sites along a river. The ability to generate charts and graphs could be used by analysts to identify areas of environmental concern or to track the effectiveness of protection efforts. Most important, these technologies can provide a mechanism for sharing and collaboration across political boundaries, so that we can start to get the benefit of coordinated activities in all four of these critical areas…planning, commerce, civic engagement, and education.