Use of new Technologies in Geography

“The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and

suggestions”

Rob Chambers Head of Geography, St Ivo School.

@RobGeog [email protected]

• Online Learning• Professional Development• Assessment for Learning• Digital Curation• Collaboration • Digital Mapping• Organisation• iPads in Geography• Creating Teaching / Learning Resources

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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

Blogs


‘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..


Twitter Feeds

Department Twitter Feeds:

- Promote

- Collaborate

- Learn

- Share

- GeoTweet Revision

-Reminders

-Engage with students and parents

- Polls


‘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.


TWITTER FEEDSOther social media..

2. Professional Development


• Connect

• Learn

• Share

• Network

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Teaching and Learning PLN

• new ideas

• collaborate

• shared research

• thoughts on pedagogy

• discussion on latest educational ‘trends’

• ofsted advice

• fellow subject specialists etc.


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

3. Assessment for Learning


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/

http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/quickkey.html

http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/quickkey.html

https://srenshaw.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/evaluating-the-use-of-hinge-questions-and-the-quick-key-app/



3. Whole range available...


Plickers..Only requires teacher device..

Quickly assess understanding.

Source: https://plickers.com/

SocrativeRequires student devices – but several question types.

KahootRequires students devices – quick polls / answers to questions.

5. Digital Mapping



Very user friendly – great for accessing maps at range of scales

for data presentation.


Our main session this evening....

4. Digital curation of articles / resources


• topic specific ‘magazines’• research for curriculum topics• encouraging flair• create magazine of your twitter feed

4. Digital curation of articles / resources



Great way of collating favourites – accessible wherever you are & can collaborate and share favourites...

5. Collaboration


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.

New Geography Dropbox....

6. Organisation


SchedulePlannerMark bookSeating PlanCalendar

7. iPads in Geography


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.

8. Creating Teaching and Learning Resources


Revision Guides

Worksheets

Interactive Displays

Enquiry Work

etc..

Using QR Codes...


Interactive Quizzes for websites and IWB


Times for pace / exam question practice


New Technologies to support revision for students..

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