GI Learner Local Gent

1. GI-Learner
K7: The Local Area

2. Alan Parkinson
Head of Geography
@GeoBlogs

4. Learning Lines

5. What is a learning line?
A learning line is an educational term that refers
to the construction of knowledge and skills
throughout the whole curriculum.
This learning line reflects an increasing level of
complexity, ranging from easy (more basic skills
and knowledge) to difficult.
Zwartjes, L., 2014. The need for a learning line for spatial thinking
using GIS in education. Innovative Learning Geography in Europe: New
Challenge for the 21st Century, pp.39-62.

6. What is a learning line?
A learning line is an educational term that refers
to the construction of knowledge and skills
throughout the whole curriculum.
This learning line reflects an increasing level of
complexity, ranging from easy (more basic skills
and knowledge) to difficult.
Zwartjes, L., 2014. The need for a learning line for spatial thinking
using GIS in education. Innovative Learning Geography in Europe: New
Challenge for the 21st Century, pp.39-62.

7. What is a learning line?
A learning line is an educational term that refers
to the construction of knowledge and skills
throughout the whole curriculum.
This learning line reflects an increasing level of
complexity, ranging from easy (more basic skills
and knowledge) to difficult.
Zwartjes, L., 2014. The need for a learning line for spatial thinking
using GIS in education. Innovative Learning Geography in Europe: New
Challenge for the 21st Century, pp.39-62.

8. How to use GI properly?

9. Geospatial thinking
Based on this review, ten geospatial thinking competences have
been proposed (can be found at the end of the literature review
document):
1. Critically read, interpret cartographic and
other visualisations in different media
2. Be aware of geographic information and its
representation through GI and GIS.
3. Visually communicate geographic information
4. Describe and use examples of GI applications
in daily life and in society
5. Use (freely available) GI interfaces

10. Geospatial thinking
Based on this review, ten geospatial thinking competences have
been proposed (can be found at the end of the literature review
document):
1. Critically read, interpret cartographic and
other visualisations in different media
2. Be aware of geographic information and its
representation through GI and GIS.
3. Visually communicate geographic information
4. Describe and use examples of GI applications
in daily life and in society
5. Use (freely available) GI interfaces

11. Geospatial thinking
6. Carry out own (primary) data capture
7. Be able to identify and evaluate (secondary)
data
8. Examine interrelationships
9. Extract new insight from analysis
10.Reflect and act with knowledge

12. Skills as a continuum
Easy / Basic Advanced / Complex

13. Learning Lines
K7: The Local Area
Common to all EU –
local as a point of
reference

14. Google Earth (Pro)
Utilize data layers
Compute distances and areas using measurement tools
Use Movie Maker to produce media collateral
Print high-resolution images for presentations and reports
Import large vector image files to quickly map GIS data
Map addresses with the Spreadsheet Importer

15. What is the first thing people do
with it?

16. Local
James Trimble http://ukdataexplorer.com/european-translator

17. Definitions of “local”
Wal-Mart’s official definition of local is
any product grown or produced within
the given store’s state.
So, lemons grown in San Diego can be
sold and marketed as “local” 500 miles
north in Sacramento
http://www.think-mag.com/your-community/defining-local/

18. Theschool

19. OS Custom Made
Thecity

20. The Fens: local landscape
A distinctive landscape…

21. Relationships with the local…

22. Local – student thoughts…
“nearby”
“where I can cycle to”
“places that I know well”
“within a few miles of Ely”
“somewhere I can walk to…”
“somewhere I know”
“the places I go to around my home
town”

23. Local - colleagues
“the area within a five mile radius”
“where our town stops and another one
starts”
“where the road / river / railway line
runs”
“beyond the <landmark>”
“where the telephone code changes”
“where the postal code changes”
“where you can buy the local paper”

25. “Good teachers use good tools”
Derek Robertson, University of
Dundee
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/gadgets-gaming/scotsman-games-derek-robertson-on-education-1-3162936

26. Keri Smith
10 years old

27. The Local

28. This
room /
building

29. slumped.stitch.recruited
http://www.what3words.com
Also a camera app which adds the address to an image
Enter the 3 Words and the app will guide you there…
Where was this room?

30. Layers of meaning… GI layers…
• Favourite / least favourite subjects & memories
of encounters with teachers
• Cleaning rota
• Timetabling
• Teacher ‘ownership’ who then moves on to
another school
• Form room
• Noisy or quiet
• Distance from staffroom
• Exposure to sun through the day

31. Professor Doreen Massey
“the global sense of the local”
Maps as a surface for stories to play out on.

32. Interrelationships
“I think that what is studied in
geography lessons should be located and
placed within a wider context. Places,
regions, countries and continents do not
exist in isolation but are interconnected.
The location of what is studied in
relation to other places is significant.”
Margaret Roberts

33. Interrelationships
“I think that what is studied in
geography lessons should be located and
placed within a wider context. Places,
regions, countries and continents do not
exist in isolation but are interconnected.
The location of what is studied in
relation to other places is significant.”
Margaret Roberts

34. “Groundtruthing…”
Students as
investigators…