Interactive mapping techniques invite students to connect with content to visualize information beyond mere location. Mapping challenges learners to think, develop literacy skills, and understand the complexity of global issues. It enables learners to seek new ways to look at information through a lens of inquiry-based analysis.

1. Mercer Hall & Patricia Russac
Buckley Country Day School
Maps vs. Mapping:
Visualizing History &
Geography
NCSS 2016
Friday, December 2, 2016
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Mapping challenges
learners to think,
to develop literacy skills,
& to understand the
complexity of global issues

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Participatory maps
engage real-world
challenges
and offer experiential,
hands-on learning

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From blueprint to creation,
from hand-drawn map to 3D mapping

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Making Connections

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Interactive mapping
techniques invite students to
connect with content,
to visualize information
beyond mere location

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The habit of
geography fosters relational
literacies, multimodal
design, and critical thinking

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Augmented Reality
e.g., Pokemon Go

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Fresh lenses on
traditional maps can help
students classify images,
assist them in developing
their own visualizations of
places and events

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Maps for centuries were
top-down creations,
made by the elite and
pushed to the populace –
personal maps subvert this
hierarchy

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At a time when everyone
has a GPS,
artists are making maps
that distort, disorient,
& convey an emotional
connection

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Digital Map Creation Tools:
• Maptia
• Stately
• Mapline
• Historypin
• Mapbox
• Map Stack