This document provides information about a CPD training course that will teach educators how to use free web tools to strengthen students' global knowledge. The course will introduce tools like ArcGIS Online, Google Drive, and social media platforms to allow exploration of global concepts. Educators will work collaboratively to create a new unit of work incorporating the tools. The goals are to identify appropriate web tools to support global themes, leave with ideas for lessons, network with other teachers, and contribute to a shared resource for using the new UK National Curriculum. The one-day course will be presented by Alan Parkinson, a geography teacher and consultant, and is suitable for secondary geography teachers and primary year 6 teachers.

1. Using free
web tools to
strengthen
global
knowledge
CPDTraining Courses
from the
Geographical Association
Further information and online booking are available at
www.geography.org.uk/webtools
CPD
Overview
This course will explore ways of using a range of freely available
web tools to further students’ understanding of key concepts in global learning. As
National Curriculum 2014 arrives, the need to strengthen global knowledge will become
more important and technology can allow access to topical and contemporary material
and connections with people, places and events in distant locations. It can also allow
students to undertake a more nuanced exploration of inequality by constructing their
own global stories; selecting and assembling a range of images and text to develop their
understanding of, and empathy for, others.
Delegates will be introduced to and shown how to use new tools, such as ArcGIS
Online, Google Drive, Gapminder, Worldmapper, Triptico and Big Huge Labs, as well as
social media, such as Twitter, Pinterest and Flipboard, for exploring global learning
concepts.
Delegates will contribute to the creation of a framework for a new unit of work for KS2 or
3 so that everyone leaves with a new resource to use immediately and a focus for further
work to consolidate the new skills that have been learned.
Aims and outcomes
This course will enable you to:
n identify appropriate web tools to support and augment traditional teaching on global
themes of globalisation, inequality and interdependence
n leave with ready-to-use ideas as well as longer-term goals for personal professional
development
n network with other colleagues
n contribute to a collaborative resource which will grow as National Curriculum 2014
comes into use
Presenter
Alan Parkinson, Teacher of Geography, King’s Ely School,
Cambridgeshire, freelance author and geographical consultant.
For teachers of
KS3 geography,
but also suitable
for Y6 teachers
London
Thursday 12 June 2014
York
Tuesday 8 July 2014

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Online booking is also available at www.geography.org.uk/webtools
Terms and Conditions
By returning this completed booking form you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions.
Deadline for registrations is 14 days before the date of the Conference.
Refunds on cancelled bookings will be made as follows:
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Please note we reserve the right to cancel Conferences should they not be viable to run. Delegates will be entitled to a full refund.
Please return your booking form and payment to:
Lucy Oxley, Geographical Association, 160 Solly Street, Sheffield S1 4BF
tel: 0114 296 0088 fax: 0114 296 7176 e-mail: loxley@geography.org.uk
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Using free
web tools to
strengthen
global
knowledge
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York Tuesday 8 July 2014 £160 £262 £285
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