INTENT


IMPACT
IMPLEMENTATION

INVESTING IN TECHNOLOGY


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
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.
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…
“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
 “a different view”

Image shared under CC license by Ben Hennig of Worldmapper.org and used with permission
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=fa57642cb9ce466bbd2310ad0b5eefe7&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 DIGISCIENCE.
GOOGLE EARTH VOYAGER
“A SHOWCASE OF INTERACTIVE GUIDED TOURS”
































HTTPS://DOCS.GOOGLE.COM/SPREADSHEETS/D/1_GWSRHLGP0KJJK88RQSXWG_RFEOB3KJHTEDUG9LRJBQ/
EDIT#GID=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 As with any other technology-enabled learning

initiative, the role of educator is paramount - how the

educator embeds the technology within the curriculum

and designs activities around it, and, most importantly,

how the educator is able to justify/explain to the

student, peers and managers about the role that VR will

play in student learning, engagement and attainment

Professor Shailey Minocha

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
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
 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

A geography curriculum leader mentioned about how the resources in the Google

Expeditions could fill gaps in knowledge. 

“The thing that is springing to mind at the moment is subject knowledge because a lot of

trainees are coming… We've talked about having lots of disparate traditions of teaching

geography and so geography degrees are very different depending on where you study.

Some people are coming into the profession with very strong physical geography subject

knowledge, for example, but quite weak human geography and that sort of thing.”
 OPEN UNIVERSITY


The virtual field trips can help educators to prepare them for physical field trips such

as risk assessment, preparing enquiries before the physical field trip and even

planning and hazard analysis about how to manage a group of students.

 “ [some teachers] don’t feel confident they understand what they want the children to

achieve as a consequence of doing fieldwork outside. So that would be an area I think

where teachers could see a direct need for CPD and I think that GE[s] [Google

Expeditions] could help with that.”

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


INCLUDES A CAMERA TO
PRODUCE 360 DEGREE
PHOTOS

& ACCESS EXPEDITIONS
 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’
 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
 “ALEXA…”
Used by Learning Support / ESOL
departments
Can provide brief summaries
Also does calculations
A table-top helper…
NARRATIVES

STORIES OF OUR STUFF…

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