IMPLEMENTING INNOVATIVE

MODERN TEACHING PRACTICES

TO INCREASE ENGAGEMENT

https://www.esriuk.com/en-gb/maps-we-
love/gallery/coastal-view-uk
ALAN PARKINSON

Image: Richard Allaway, CC licensed

GEOGRAPHER
KING’S ELY JUNIOR, CAMBS
Geography at King’s Ely is all about exploration. We move from the local to the
global, from the UK via Europe to the wider world, and from familiar to unfamiliar
ideas. Geography is an academically robust subject, combining creative elements
of the arts with the enquiry approach of the sciences, with people at its centre.
The department uses an enquiry approach based on the content of the national
curriculum. This enquiry approach is central to what we do: asking those big
questions and investigating, analysing, presenting and reviewing important issues
in the world.
Founded 970 AD, before the Norman Conquest
Harry Potter in Latin in the school library.
Campus wide wi-fi handling over 1000 devices
Bring Your Own Device policy
CULTURAL
GEOGRAPHER
 PERSONAL ADOPTION OF
TECHNOLOGY
1980 – First computer: ZX80
1982: Apple II programming
1986 – PGCE – BBC Micro Computers
Amstrad PCW8256 – wore it out…
Computer Science: 2nd subject PGCE
Taught ‘A’ level 7 GCSE Computer
Science for five years
An early adopter of technologies…
 ANTHONY LITTLE: ETON COLLEGE
(2013)

‘SCHOOLS NEED
TO ADAPT TO THE
INTERNET – OR
DIE…’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10503938/Eton-headmaster-
tells-schools-to-adapt-to-the-internet-or-die.html
YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW IT WORKS…

“THE TEACHER’S
TRADITIONAL ALLY IS A
PIECE OF CHALK, AND
THE CLOSER ANY
MODERN AID
APPROACHES THIS
STILL INDISPENSABLE
MATERIAL IN SOME
RESPECTS THE MORE
LIKELY HE IS TO USE IT”
(PAGE & KITCHING,
1981)
Image: Tom Morgan Jones: Geography Collective: Mission:Explore Water
 “A curriculum, to be truly
educational, will lead the
students to unanticipated,
rather than predicted,
outcomes”
John McKernan
US Educator
1984 PGCE Assignment
ADD IN SAMR AND
CRITIQUE
SAMR
RUBEN PUENTEDURA
“The urge to map is a basic,
enduring human instinct.”
Jerry Brotton, professor of
renaissance studies at the
University of London
 “When we travel, we
travel through an infinity
of simultaneous stories….
and maps are a surface
over which these stories
are played out…”
Doreen Massey
NLS Map release
ArcGIS Online
ESRI StoryMaps
•Free to all UK schools
• https://kingselygeog.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html
• https://schools.esriuk.com/teaching-resources/ - hundreds of free
resources
LINK TO CURRICULUM so it is embedded rather than having specific
GIS lessons, they are geography lessons taught with GIS.
• London Boroughs:
https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=fa5
7642cb9ce466bbd2310ad0b5eefe7&extent=-
0.5407,51.3028,0.4735,51.676
WANT A DEMO LATER? ASK ME
WATERSHED PLOTTING
 YORK FLOODING

https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=c7e498edc59a40d5a1a796cbbf6a7beb&extent=-1.6277,53.7615,-0.6135,54.1143
DIGIMAP FOR SCHOOLS
DIGIMAP FOR COLLEGES

PLUS SNEAK PREVIEW….

 VR
‘VIRTUAL REALITY’
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/18/health/virtual-reality-schools/index.html

Google Expeditions
https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?&q=%23GoogleExpeditions

Lesson Plans – aimed at the headset being something else…

A Scuba diver’s mask…
A camera…
OPEN UNIVERSITY
PROFESSOR SHAILEY MINOCHA
OPEN UNIVERSITY

Used since 2001 when there was the Foot and Mouth Outbreak
GOOGLE EXPEDITIONS
APP
SMARTPHONE

INCLUDES A CAMERA
TO PRODUCE 360
DEGREE PHOTOS
PANOFORM
 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/06/
8-digital-skills-we-must-teach-our-children
@wef
GOOGLE EARTH VOYAGER
“A SHOWCASE OF INTERACTIVE GUIDED TOURS”

HTTPS://DOCS.GOOGLE.COM/SPREADSHEETS/D/1_GWSRHLGP0KJJK88RQSXWG_RFEOB3KJHTEDUG9LRJBQ/EDIT#G
D=1868246136
VOYAGER STORIES
DATASHINE – CASA –
OLIVER O’BRIEN

Census data visualisation http://datashine.org.uk

OS MAPS APP
https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/route/513705/Trail-Magazine-The-Black-Cuillin

3D Flythroughs
Route planning
Augmented Reality

See what is around you…

Adding extra dimension to the map

Identifying features on the map e.g. glacial diffluence

TABLETOP AR – 3D ROUTES
 CLEVER BOOKS
AR

From engagement to investment

http://www.shaileyminocha.info/blog/2017/10/1/virtual-reality-in-education
CDRC Maps
https://maps.cdrc.ac.uk

GeoDemographics
Themes
Metrics
Cromer Fieldtrip
House Ages
Luminocity 3D
http://luminocity3d.org/#population_density_2011/11/56.3938/-
3.4779
 Accuracy checking…
Shorter term changes in landscape
Critical Thinking

Images: Ian Ward

Parallel
https://parallel.co.uk
School Travel Time Catchments
Population Pyramids

https://parallel.co.uk
 “polychromatic rendering”

https://parallel.co.uk/os-openmap-
cyo/#13.34/53.42707/-1.35945
Managing in school

Image: Tom Morgan Jones: Geography Collective: Mission:Explore

• Cost of infrastructure
• Equipment redundancy – leasing?
• Cheap replacements or investing in quality
• Staff training – in-house expertise – TLCs?
• Airplay to projectors rather than cabling

• Microsoft rather than iPads for network security

• Filtering
• GDPR and how rigorously this is enforced
• Use of Social Media accounts
• Use of USB hard drives
 THE GEOGRAPHICAL
TEACHER
DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD
Volume 1 Issue 1 Page 1 (1901)

‘In Britain, teachers are for the most part

too scattered and too busy to come together
frequently for discussion. They require a
medium through which they may readily
communicate with one another, exchange
experiences and learn the progress that is
being made in method or in appliances in our
own country and abroad’
ALEC COUROS

Shared under CC license

 Collaborative Google Document
Ideas for using resources…

http://bit.ly/11L6MyS
Factfulness
Dollar Street / Gapminder
 https://ia.geographyalltheway.com/sites

http://www.digitaltechnologies.education/?p=1661
USING ICT – IMPACT?
“Educational research can never lead practice—great
teaching is produced by teacher creativity—but what the
research can do is to identify some avenues as more fruitful than
others, and also make sense of the practice of effective teachers,
in particular by identifying which aspects of practice are likely
to be essential to success, and which are idiosyncrasies of
individual teachers.”
Dylan Wiliam

• G-Suite for education rather than Office 365?

• Range of tools – an ecosystem rather than individual tools
• VLE – Firefly at King’s – more than just a repository of ‘stuff’
TAKING A RISK?
Technology must be used strategically to benefit students with digital
content linked to learning, and knowledge as well as skills.

e.g.
StoryMap on Volcanoes
https://story.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=4c77
a56bbcd743b69232cf3fd9c7a61c

Is this a time for taking risks?

POKEMON GO
GAMIFICATION?
FADS?
DRONES?
 “ALEXA…”
Used by Learning Support / ESOL
departments
Can provide brief summaries
Also does calculations
A table-top helper…
DR. WHO
 “a different view”

Image shared under CC license by Ben Hennig of Worldmapper.org and used with permission
WITHOUT
DEVIATION
FROM THE
NORM,
PROGRESS IS
NOT
POSSIBLE

FRANK
ZAPPA