Presentation used at 4th meeting of GeoLincs network at Bourne Grammar School

1. Living Geography
New curriculum opportunities
Alan Parkinson
CGeog, FRGS, FRSGS
Teacher @ King’s Ely

2. Who is this bloke ?

3. I’m from South Yorkshire….

5. 20 years
Geography & ICT to ‘A’ level
Plus KS3 History, GCSE Maths

8. 2008 – LivingGeography blog
5900 posts
1.6 million views
@GeoBlogs
Pinterest boards
Flickr images – 13 000+ CC licensed

10. Freelance Geography Educator for 4
years..
On the ‘Jolie Brise’ in the Solent – Digital Explorer – Oceans Academy, 2012

11. Worked with interesting people…

12. I’m a director here…
“Designed to be read, scribbled on, illustrated, smeared, scratched and sniffed, it may just
be the most revolutionary geography-related book ever published”.
Geographical Magazine

13. work here… a second career
art time with freelance for 2 years
ept 2015 – Head of Geography again…
//geographyteacher2point0.blogspot.
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14. Also:
EU Projects
Writing GCSE
textbook
Writing and
editing ‘A’ level
textbook
Working with
Digital Explorer

15. Learning from the
experts ?
Living through
curriculum change

16. http://bit.ly/curricbits
Free resources
Presentation used today
Documents related to curriculum
/ enquiry
Other stuff on request

17. “Make the
learning relevant,
exciting,
memorable and
high quality”
(Professor David
Lambert – my old
boss)

18. Margaret Roberts
“The value of an academic
subject lies in whether it asks
questions that are worth
answering…”
Geographical Enquiry

19. Context
Narratives
Personal geographies

21. David
Hockney
"I can get
excitement
watching rain on a
puddle. And then I
paint it. Now, I
admit, there are
not too many
people who would
find that exciting.
But I would”

22. Last Thursday…

23. Last Friday…

24. GeoCapabilities
http://geography.org.uk/projects/geo-capabilities/
http://www.geocapabilities.org/
Teachers should go beyond delivery of a
curriculum of prescribed ‘given
knowledge’ and of a curriculum that
over-emphasises ‘learning to learn’,
which blurs subject distinctions.
Instead we advocate creating a
‘curriculum of engagement’ - what we
call a Future 3 curriculum.

25. Future 3 Curriculum
& Curriculum Making
David Lambert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
anrkR4Qty7I

26. Pole to Pole
Mark Brandon

28. Pole of Cold
“What’s the coldest you’ve
ever been…”
Notes – Coldest Stories
Pole of Cold – SAGT Non Book Award

29. Contacts
Following relevant accounts (and unfollowing)
News stories and local newspapers
Images
Weather reports

30. Pole of Cold
http://www.poleofcold.com

34. http://weaponsofreason.com/

35. http://issuu.com/weaponsofreason/docs/wor_final

40. Connecting your passions….
& trying something new…

42. Spine poetry….

43. Developing ArcGIS Online and Story
Maps

44. GeoCapabilities
• Teacher training course in preparation – 4
online modules
• Interested in StoryMaps to share a story of
when you do some curriculum making.
• E-mail if you’d like a free ArcGIS account in
return for creating a StoryMap for us…

45. Thanks for listening
a.parkinson@gmail.com