The Antidote to Red Dot Fever - Good Design for your Google Earth Map.
I think the point that you make here is valid Richard some of the activities contain more concrete learning than other. While some have fun at the centre and provide a contextual hub for a lesson.However, I suspect that by doing the pizza exercise more than a few times children would equally tire of that just as quickly as you suggest they would tire of repeated use of the smoke signals.In fact, the point with the smoke signals is not the signals themselves but the location they come from. The learning is in the message and the location of place that the signals emerge from the map. Like all the activities it’s up to the teacher to enrich the experience with appropriate discussion and questioning.The presentation was about ideas and trying to give teachers a good set of tools for starting to think about other ways to teach place.
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I think the point that you make here is valid Richard some of the activities contain more concrete learning than other. While some have fun at the centre and provide a contextual hub for a lesson.
However, I suspect that by doing the pizza exercise more than a few times children would equally tire of that just as quickly as you suggest they would tire of repeated use of the smoke signals.
In fact, the point with the smoke signals is not the signals themselves but the location they come from. The learning is in the message and the location of place that the signals emerge from the map. Like all the activities it’s up to the teacher to enrich the experience with appropriate discussion and questioning.
The presentation was about ideas and trying to give teachers a good set of tools for starting to think about other ways to teach place.
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