Location-based learning

HTAV Middle Years Conference

Location-based learning

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Your provocateur

Hamish Curry

hcurry@slv.vic.gov.au

slideshare.net/hcurry

@hamishcurry

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‘The map is not the territory.’

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Reading the past

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Learning outside the classroom

To be or not to be BYOD

Visual thinking

Illusion of choice

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/

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The Australian Curriculum

7 General Capabilities – the lenses of location-based learning?

1. Literacy – not English

2. Numeracy – not Maths

3. ICT capability – giddy up!

4. Critical and creative thinking – problem solvers unite!

5. Personal and social capability – more please…

6. Ethical understanding – examine the social fabric

7. Intercultural understanding – race, gender, age, ability

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Future thinking, today

http://www.freefacebookcovers.co.uk/2012/back-in-my-day/

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Learning outside the classroom

Responsibility

Respect

Real things

Challenge

Choice

Collaborate

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Street Museum: Museum of London (UK)

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Curriculum design

http://www.flickr.com/photos/

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How might we design a collection based program that offers meaningful choices, to create and document stories in an environment?

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BYOD

Note down

Take photos

Record audio

Send texts

Film video

Locate

Dig deeper

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38305415@N00/4365558047

Hoddle Waddle

It’s not a race!

Immersive learning

Integrate places, spaces, faces

Structured discovery with measured risk

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Hoddle Waddle

1. Expand students’ knowledge of the history of Melbourne

2. Improve students’ understanding of the geography of Melbourne

3. Encourage students to work as part of an effective and productive team

4. Encourage students to develop stronger communication skills

5. Students experience public transport using city maps & navigation skills

6. Students visit Melbourne’s cultural landmarks and institutions

7. Give students an exciting and educational record of their team’s ‘waddle’

8. Give students an enjoyable Melbourne city experience

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BYOD

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Hoddle Waddle

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Melbourne map – 1950s

The new school bag?

Tools

Capture now

Edit later

Roles

Responsibilities

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34064267@N00/5960255156

Immersion

See

Think

Wonder

Time

Place

Space

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Mobile

Guided Apps

Lost 100

Historypin

Melbourne Historical

Sound of buildings

Our City

Vic Heritage

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Melbourne Urban Forest

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Run That Town

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Mobile

Creation Apps

SCVNGR

ARIS

Layar

Google Maps

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Hoddle Waddle

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Location-based ingredients

http://www.flickr.com/photos/65692143@N00/534450666/

• Middle years• Freemium• Online resources• Guided and independent• Team with roles and focus• CBD Zone based• User planned• Linked to library

collections• Timing• Pre & post activities• Negotiated• Decisions at point of need• Mixture of subject

disciplines• Technology support• Team focus on each other

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‘The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.’

Alex Trenfor