Monday, March 2
1:30 PM-5:00 PM
PST
Amazon I

K-12 Geospatial Tools and ArcGIS Online in the Age of the White House ConnectED Initiative

Workshop ID: 44296
  1. Thomas Hammond
    Lehigh University

Abstract: This workshop will provide an overview of the core geospatial technologies and pedagogies used in K-12 education and the White House ConnectED Initiative (and related efforts) to bring free geospatial technologies to classrooms. Teacher educators who are new to geospatial technologies will gain hands-on experience with four key tools: GPS (smartphone-based), ArcGIS Online, Google Earth, and key data (e.g. remotely sensed imagery, historical, sensor-based scientific). Special emphasis will be placed on field data collection, storytelling, and data visualization. Participants should plan to bring their own laptops and smartphones. Attendees who bring tablets will have partial access to the materials covered. Each attendee will receive a complimentary copy of Tech Enabled Field Studies and a copy of the Guide to GIS Analysis.

Objectives

• Attendees will learn what geospatial technologies are and where the enhance teaching and learning. • Attendees will use mobile GPS to find position and collect field data. • Attendees will create at least two web-based maps and share. • Attendees will explore existing story maps and create one of their own. • Attendees will learn about the geospatial tools available for free to US schools under the White House ConnectED Initiative.

Topical Outline

• Introductions • Activity, social studies: Exploring the Holocaust in class with digital maps • The ConnectED Initiative: Implications for U.S. school teachers • Primer on geospatial tools including: GPS, web mapping, digital globes, and remote sensing. • Primer on common instructional models used with geospatial tools. o Connections to US national standards • Activity, social studies: Creating a first web map - hometown demographics o Think-Pair-Share to expand • Activity: Using a smart phone to collect data • Activity, science: Designing project Based Learning for outdoor data collection o Outside: Collect data on workshop collaborative project (“Microclimates and heat islands”) o Create a web-map of data collected. Include data from GIS servers and real-time data from social media. • Activity, language arts: Explore story maps and lit trips. o Use the workshop data to create a hyper-local story map or lit trip. • Activity, science: Web apps for teaching with remotely sensed data • Concluding remarks and next steps

Prerequisites

None.

Experience Level

Beginner

Qualifications

This pre-conference workshop is convened by the GeoSpatial Education SIG and SIG chairs. The presenters collectively have over 30 years of experience in the field and dozens of publications related to the workshop theme. Dr. Tom Hammond is a pre-service social studies teacher educator and Dr. Tom Baker is an education manager at Esri and adjunct researcher at the University of Kansas.

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