Effective use of new technologies
Transcript of Effective use of new technologies
“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
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
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..
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
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‘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.
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
TWITTER FEEDSOther social media..
2. Professional Development
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• Connect
• Learn
• Share
• Network
staffrm
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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.
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
3. Assessment for Learning
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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/
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/
SocrativeRequires student devices – but several question types.
KahootRequires students devices – quick polls / answers to questions.
5. Digital Mapping http://digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/
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Using Digmap for presentation of data..
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Very user friendly – great for accessing maps at range of scales
for data presentation.
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.
4. Digital curation of articles / resources
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• topic specific ‘magazines’• research for curriculum topics• encouraging flair• create magazine of your twitter feed
4. Digital curation of articles / resources
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Create your own ‘digital library’ of articles to support teaching and learning
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Great way of collating favourites – accessible wherever you are & can collaborate and share favourites...
5. Collaboration #geogshare
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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/introducing-geogshare/
New Geography Dropbox.... (#geogshare)
6. Organisation
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SchedulePlannerMark bookSeating PlanCalendar
7. iPads in Geography
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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
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Interactive Revision Guides
Worksheets
Interactive Displays
Enquiry Work
etc..
Using QR Codes...
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
Interactive Quizzes for websites and IWB
The use of new technologies in Geography – ideas and suggestions
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..