GPS and its application to teaching outside the four walls of the classroom Jenny Barrett Breathe Technology [email protected]
Nov 28, 2014
GPS and its application to teaching outside the four walls of the classroom
Jenny Barrett Breathe Technology
What does GPS stand for?
a) Global Positioning Standard
b) Geographic Positioning System
c) Global Positioning System
d) Geographic Positioning System
e) Great Practical Schoolwork
Watch this video to find out
Introduction: how does GPS work?
A How Stuff Works Video(www.howstuffworks.com)
archaeologists
historians
genealogists cartographers
Quote taken from US Geographical Society
Ideas for teaching and learning
The technology - what I need?
Getting started this Summer!
ideas for use in teaching and learning
Interacting with the environment
The task:Armed with your "Guide to New Zealand trees" and your GPS device:a) Go to xx/xx and find a rimu tree. Draw a leaf.b) Go to xx/xx and find a ponga tree. Take a bark rubbing.
History of the local area
The task:Students use the GPS references to go to sites where interesting events took place, perhaps in the order that they ocurred. They mark the events on a map and take photos to later reconstruct the story.
History: old buildings
The task:Students find the sites of old buildings - some may still be there but have different uses. They take photos of now and compare and contrast with archived photos.
Citizenship: issues in the local community
The task: choose an issue relevent to the local community such as river pollution as featured at a local museum. Students find evidence of pollution, note the coordinates and take samples, photos, record their feelings etc.
Set up a community project...and revisit the coordinates six months down the track...
Story telling
The task:Using a GPS device that allows you to record points of interest or "waymarks", students create their own narrative of a field trip. After, they create their own genuine story map, and with digital cameras and MP3 players can insert video and sounds.
My trippermap
Just because...students like to move
The task:Place clues, questions or activities in envelopes around the museum - and they can only be located using GPS
Numeracy...areas, averages, angles, distance, direction...
The task:Where the area might be significant e.g. the size of a prison cell; where distance is significant e.g. how far the first settlers had to carry water... Use the route recorder.
Contextualising language
The task:Students use the GPS to navigate to a place where they find a clue to crack or a task to complete that will lead them to the Maori word for what they are looking at. Easier to recall language if it is contextualised!
APPLICATION TO YOUR SITUATION
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/design/staff/sprake.php Mudlarking
The technology
Add-on GPS devices - attachments available for cameras / Bluetooth devices for phones and computers
Built in - newer mobiles and cameras
Simple handheld GPS - fix positions using co-ordinates, navigate along a set route, find a fixed point, interact with a digital map, record speed and distance data
As above + software that will allow you to geotag photos, analyse and map data
No GPS? You can still geotag media...using various online tools e.g. flickr
Geocaching....
Earthcaching
Learning: coordinates, narratives, descriptions, vegetation, stats, collaboration, contacts
Thank you for your time!
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