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Mercer Hall & Patricia Russac
Buckley Country Day School
Maps vs. Mapping:
Visualizing History &
Geography
NCSS 2016
Friday, December 2, 2016
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“Thinking like a designer can transform the way children learn.”
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Mapping challenges
learners to think,
to develop literacy skills,
& to understand the
complexity of global issues
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Participatory maps
engage real-world
challenges
and offer experiential,
hands-on learning
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From blueprint to creation,
from hand-drawn map to 3D mapping
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Making Connections
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Interactive mapping
techniques invite students to
connect with content,
to visualize information
beyond mere location
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The habit of
geography fosters relational
literacies, multimodal
design, and critical thinking
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Augmented Reality
e.g., Pokemon Go
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Fresh lenses on
traditional maps can help
students classify images,
assist them in developing
their own visualizations of
places and events
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Maps for centuries were
top-down creations,
made by the elite and
pushed to the populace –
personal maps subvert this
hierarchy
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At a time when everyone
has a GPS,
artists are making maps
that distort, disorient,
& convey an emotional
connection
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Digital Map Creation Tools:
• Maptia
• Stately
• Mapline
• Historypin
• Mapbox
• Map Stack