“In Britain, teachers are for the most part too scattered and too busy to come together frequently for discussion. They require a medium through which they may readily

communicate with one another, exchange experiences and learn the progress that is

being made in method or in appliances in our own country and abroad.”

(Vol 1., No. 1, p. 1 of “The Geographical Teacher” – the first journal of the GA)

James Herbertson, GA President

“Twitter ye not...”Geographical curriculum making & web 2.0

Image: Andy Riley

Who is this bloke ?

September 2008

Last year...

IPSOS MORI

http://www.geography.org.uk/resources/adifferentview/worldissuessurvey

Google Books...

Something else since last year...

The Corruption of the Curriculum

Alex Standish

Geography is ‘no longer about maps’ but indoctrinating young people with ‘environmentalism’ in the name of ‘global citizenship’.

Im

”Children are not the same as they used to be…”

Slide courtesy of Ollie Bray

Image courtesy of Ollie Bray

Curriculum making

Young People’s Geographies

Making Geography Happen

1975

as close as

2045

“The imaginative and stimulating geography curriculum is skilfully

designed to match to the full range of pupils’ needs and to

ensure highly effective continuity and progression in their learning.”

“The curriculum provides consistently high quality opportunities for pupils

to develop and consolidate key geographical skills of enquiry, graphicacy and geographical

communication.”

“Field work is well planned and clearly identified as an integral part

of the schemes of work. Pupils experience fieldwork on a regular

basis, and activities offer clear progression rather than repetition.”

“The key geographical concepts such as place, space, scale, diversity,

sustainability, for example are clearly embedded in the planning.”

“The contribution of geography to community cohesion and the global

dimension is at least good in all major respects, and is exemplary in

significant elements.”

“Excellent links are forged with other agencies and the wider, as well as the global, community to provide a wide

range of enrichment activities to promote pupils’ learning and

engagement with the subject..”

'I now realise geography is not just out of a text book, it's about the

feeling and atmosphere of a place.‘

Young People’s Geographies participant

Student Experiences

Geography: the subjectTeacher Choices

Underpinned by Key Concepts

Thinking Geographically

Which learning activity ?

Does this take the learner beyond what they already know ?

Curriculum MakingCurriculum Making

I see this a lot:Someone is demoing Twitter.

They ask their network why they use Twitter. People respond

“it’s the best CPD I’ve ever received”No. It’s. Not.

It might be the best Continual Professional Stimulation (CPS) you’ve ever received but

development is more than getting a bunch of ideas. Development is:

[The] act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining.

or[A] process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature

stage).

Twittersheep.com700 “followers”

Shelterbox

http://www.youngshelterbox.org/inside.php

Flooding in Brazil

Palmares, Pernambuco

Ox-bow lakes...

Town a is down river from town b

How can

Town b end up down river from Town a ??

A question from my Twitter network

Image under CC by Flickr user: Mr.Tea

Yell Maps: 3D

http://www.yell.com/maps/MapAction.do?mapSearchType=locSearch&location=birmingham&scrambleSeed=&lat=52.47754811731959&lon=-1.8929699902338306&zoomFactor=2&type=&viewerMode=3dmap&pitch=39&heading=306&height3d=500

What else could BP stand for... ??

• Big Problem

• Big Payout

• Belching Petroleum

• Beach Pollution

???

http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/

A slick idea...

4 hours and 40 minutes....

World Cup 2010Gapminder

Controversy...

How much does he earn a week

£90,000 per week from Manchester United.

plus£760,000 twice a year for image rights.£1m a year from Nike for advertising. £118,689 every six months from computer game makers EA Sports. £3.55m for twelve books (yes: that's books: 12 of them)£600,000 from Coca Cola for a four year deal.

Sarah McLachlan – “World on Fire”

Postcode portraits

Finding your ACORN type...

Voyage of the ‘Plastiki’

Iceland Webcams...http://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/icelandlive/#jokulsarlon

GA Resource

Job feeds: BB Park Warden...

“When you have 500 pictures from your vacation in your Flickr account, as opposed to five pictures that are really meaningful, does that change your ability to recall the moments

that you really want to recall?”

Dr. Elias AboujaoudeStanford University

2010 Curriculum for 2021Year 7 Year 8 Year 9

Geography “Boot Camp” (inc. GIS)

Explorer debriefing...

Global stories

Producers & Consumers

Time capsule: futures

Language of Landscapes

A world of work & a job for life ?

Britain 2010-2021

Around the world in...

Weather or not... Geo....... : x-curricular project

School’s out... A butterfly flaps its wings...

Can you tell what it is yet ?

Mission Explore

The blog...http://livinggeography.blogspot.com