Michaela LINDNER-FALLY, EUROGEO/BORG Oberndorf, Austria
Sophie WILSON, St Mary's University Twickenham, United Kingdom
Luc ZWARTJES, Ghent University, Geography Department, Belgium
The aim of this presentation is to present goals and current results of the Erasmus+ GI-Pedagogy project (2019-22), which is designed to bring Geographical Information Systems (GIS) into the classroom.
The project’s goal is to provide teachers, particularly trainee and early career teachers, with the skills and resources they need to teach with GIS in an innovative and effective way. This work focuses on four main outputs:
1) An innovative pedagogical model for teaching with GIS, drawn from a research study and a resource guide to provide a model for the use of different pedagogical approaches to GIS. This has been done by presenting an academic review of existing pedagogies relating to GIS as well as suggesting new approaches for teaching and learning with Geoinformation, gained from the results of a small-scale survey of experienced teachers from partner countries. The purpose of this was to explore the pedagogical approaches being used in European Secondary schools to teach with GIS, to help to identify examples of best practice.
2) A toolkit of innovative pedagogical approaches to teaching with GIS, including a new “GI-Pedagogy Model for teaching with GI”. Resources and materials developed to adopt this approach to teaching, will be presented and discussed.
3) A teacher training course with innovative pedagogical approaches to teaching with GI is currently designed to train teachers in using the toolkit, exploring teaching materials and, of course, developing their own learning modules.
4) A digital exhibition of case-studies to examples from which teachers can draw and further develop their evolving use of GIS in the classroom.
The session will conclude with a short outline of the GI-Pedagogy project’s next steps, including details for possible collaboration and involvement in this work.
Mots clés : geography ecudation|secondary school|Geoinformation|teacher training|innovative teaching model
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