OSM & K12 Ed SotM US Portland, OR 13 Oct 12 Jeff Meyer jeff@gwhat.org GIS Appren*ce, Aaron Racicot
May 31, 2015
OSM &
K-‐12 Ed
SotM US Portland, OR 13 Oct 12
Jeff Meyer
GIS Appren*ce, Aaron Racicot
Thesis The OSM infrastructure has much to offer K-‐12 educaHon.
Roadmap
• K-‐12 trends • Teacher Needs • Student Needs • OSM role • Brainstorming
K-‐12 Trends: Standards • Sweeping the
naHon : ) • STEM drives the
train • NoHce social
studies?
K-‐12 Reality: Spending
Purchase Size
Decision Speed
Why OSM?
• OSM price is right: free! • OSM is universally available through a browser • Maps engage the mind • OSM complemenets mulHdisciplinary project-‐based acHviHes
• OSM supports map creaHon & collaboraHon • Students’ contribuHons make a difference • It’s easy to use ; )
Learning by Doing is Good
• Map creaHon supported by OSM can promote long-‐term retenHon
• Map making collaboraHon supported by OSM encourages development of social interacHon skills
Map of the United States by Eliza S. Ordway, 1829 David Rumsey Map Collec*on
Map the World by Heart, FableVision Learning
Example of OSM members collabora*ng to build a map together.
5th Grade Map found on the web.
History EducaHon Present-‐day maps reflect the past
GeQysburg map made using TileMill and OpenStreetMap data.
GeQysburg map from A House Divided
History EducaHon Tuning maps to support visual learning
Seige of Ft. Sumter drives pushes Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and North Carolina to secede. (hbp://geocommons.com/maps/157204)
“Watching” the secession can complement reading.
OSM & Project Based Learning • Using GIS tools
doesn’t imply studying geography
• Beyond place name pair memory
• Human impact • MulHdisciplinary
learning High school junior Sarah using OSM and QGIS for Tiananmen Square
Massacre research. She assembled a Hmeline and used OSM to idenHfy locaHons of key events and universiHes where the
protesters studied.
Global World History ATlas
Simple OSM-‐based EducaHonal Tasks
#1: Basic GIS/OSM Training Sequence • Step 1: Draw a map of your school on paper • Step 2: Map your school on OSM • Step 3: Ask: what was there before your school? • Step 4: Look at historic maps to answer
#2: Adopt a locaHon & fill it out • Maybe a nearby pond or waterway, then idenHfy locaHons of
animal habitats • A locaHon far away, near a school in another country – invite a
cultural exchange or support humanitarian relief – See: hbp://hot.openstreetmap.org/
• Map locaHons of – and build maps for – ancient villages – See: hbp://pleiades.stoa.org/ -‐ ancient places gazeteer
Other uses of OSM: Physics / Math / GPS
• Grade level: 5+ • What is GPS? • What are tracks? • What are the data
formats? • Uploading tracks to
make a map! • Why aren’t the
tracks consistent? GIS Appren*ce, Aaron Racicot
Missing Gaps / Next Steps For Improving OSM Support of K-‐12
• IdenHfy opportuniHes to integrate OSM support into lesson plans – Standards -‐> objecHves -‐> tasks – Find related lessons plans, improve them, share them
• Build class & grade-‐specific stylesheets – TileMill can help here – Publishing examples on Mapbox, gerng feedback
• Provide classroom-‐specific planets – Hosted environments with blank slates surfaces where students can draw
their own maps – Set up opportuniHes for students to collaborate for creaHng villages, larger
areas with other students
• Get more help! [email protected]
Other Background
• Aaron R’s GIS ApprenHceship – hbps://github.com/reprojected/reprojected.github.com/blob/master/
presentaHons/gis_apprenHce_2012/GISApprenHceship_final.pdf?raw=true
Wall maps are good
• Projectors just cannot provide the sheer volume of pixels as a wall map
• OSM & digital map creators need to keep in mind that digital maps really encourage “looking through a straw”
• Building good digital maps to support Map Stories requires careful design.
1
Wall map
35
takes 35 projectors
9600 x 7200
Even an unlikely 4 projector setup radically reduces the amount of informaBon that
can be displayed.
Showing only ¼ of the map (on 1 of those 4 projectors) can change the context and perspecBve of the map
significantly.