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Innovative Classrooms: Mapping Your Way
David Richardson and Susan Tyree
What Innovative Classrooms Look Like
• Authentic assessment• Project-based learning• Technology
innovations• School to career
opportunities
Excerpted from Edutopia Online
http://www.glef.org/
Performance Assessment
• “Measure what kids can do with knowledge, not how many right answers they can give to questions.” Seymour Papert
Project Based Learning
• “Students work together in groups to solve challenging problems that are authentic, curriculum-based, and often interdisciplinary.” Gwen Solomon, Technology and Learning
• The teacher is learning at the same time as the students and with the students
Technology Innovation
We have given students a research tool and databases used by scientists, analysts, and planners in the field.
School to Work
482 Jobs Posted on Monster.com in 7 days in Florida.
What Innovative Classrooms Feel Like
What students do is meaningful
Students are engaged and
motivated
Students take control of their learning
Students have a sense of accomplishment and pride in their finished product
What is GIS?
• GIS is a computer software that allows you to store, analyze and display data LINKED TOGETHER GEOGRAPHICALLY.
• With this program you can manage information of any kind according to where it is located.
Data Can Be Queried
The datatables can be queried and the results displayed geographically.
Themes
• The data is layered together in themes.
• Each theme of data has its own database of attributes attached.
• There are three types of themes: polygons, lines, and points.
We can project Sugarloaf Key
Adding GPS Data
• Points can be collected with GPS unit.
• These points can be downloaded into the GIS program.
Data Added To GIS as a Table
Table Data Added to View
Publish to the Web
• Research and data can be combined to publish on the web for authentic assessment of student projects.– Key Largo School– Sugarloaf School
• Where to publish– School district web sites– Web World Wonders
Resources
David Richardson
http://www.monroe.k12.fl.us/sls/
Sugarloaf School
255 Crane Blvd.
Summerland Key, FL 33042
Telephone: (305)-745-3282 Fax:(305)-745-2019
Florida Geographic Alliance
Dr. Laurie Molina
http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/
Susan Tyree
http://www.keylargoschool.com
Key Largo School
104801 Overseas Highway
Key Largo, FL 33037
Telephone (305)-453-1255
Fax: 305-453-1248