This document discusses various topics related to geography education, including: - The importance of teaching students about global issues and the future of the world. Research shows most students feel it is important to learn about these topics. - Different ways of looking at and understanding landscapes, including through photographs, soundscapes, and students' own writing. - Tools and resources to help teachers bring real-world contexts into the classroom, such as Google Earth, films, and online communities. - The role of teachers in helping students experience ordinary things in new ways and think critically about the future.

1. “a different view” What’s your view ? SAGT October 2009

2. Animoto will now accept VIDEO

3. Alan ParkinsonSecondary Curriculum Development LeaderGeographical Association

4. Who am I ? 2005: Magic Realism: Virtual Geography and Online Communities 2006: Google Earth: a Users guide 2007: Getting beyond “cut and paste” 2008: Turn on... tune in... Geography !” 2009.... TODAY !

6. This year’s Pixar film

7. “nail houses...”

8. “One must come out of one's house to begin learning.” Ghanaian Proverb

9. Toronto

10. Seattle, USA

11. Chongqing: Wu PingStood out for 3 years against shopping mall

12. “Amazing Places : SoW”

13. “It's never the technology thatentertains an audience, it's what you do with it.”John Lasseter, Disney Pixar Head of Animation

14. Image: Flickr user Cushdy 2 contexts for the workshop

15. The Manifesto....

16. “Manifesto”

17. Toolkit book: “Look at it this way” £11

18. Image: Flickr user Highranger

19. What’s your view of the manifesto ?

20. The Package: the booklet plus.... Glossy A1 Posters Supporting articles Website CPD guidance Image sets Teachers’ guide

21. Fred Martin..as a resource...

22. Fully funded by the GA7 sectionsA curriculum resourceThinking geographicallyLiving GeographyGeography and young peopleInvestigating and exploring geographyGeography and the ‘real world’Curriculum making with geography

23. 7 sectionsA curriculum resourceThinking geographicallyLiving GeographyGeography and young peopleInvestigating and exploring geographyGeography and the ‘real world’Curriculum making with geography

24. SAGT Conference Theme“Today’s GeographyTomorrow’s World” FUTURES

25. ‘What is exciting about geography is that it is the first curriculum subject in the UK to take seriously the need for critical and creative thinking about the future’ David Hicks

26. IPSOS MORIResearch conducted for the Geographical Association in 2009http://www.geography.org.uk/aboutus/adifferentview/worldissuessurvey/

27. Learning about people’s lives elsewhere How important, if at all, do you think it is for people your age to learn about the issues affecting people’s lives in different parts of the world? Not at all important Don’t know Not very important Very important Fairly important Base: 598 children aged 11-14 years old in England, 15-22 January 2009

28. Learning about future change To what extent, if at all, do you agree or disagree with the following statements? It is important to learn/think about … How the world I live in may change in the future Changes to the world around me and why they occur Where the things I use, such as food, energy and water, come from People, societies and cultures in other part of the world Base: 598 children aged 11-14 years old in England, 15-22 January 2009

29. More time needed learning about wider world To what extent, if at all, do you agree or disagree with the following statement? There is not enough time spent on learning about the wider world in school? Don’t know Definitely agree Definitely disagree Tend not to agree Tend to agree Base: 598 children aged 11-14 years old in England, 15-22 January 2009

30. Fully funded by the GA7 sectionsA curriculum resourceThinking geographicallyLiving GeographyGeography and young peopleInvestigating and exploring geographyGeography and the ‘real world’Curriculum making with geography

31. How do geographers think ?

32. “teachers as learners” Professor David Lambert: “my boss”...

33. “The Met Office admitted this week that its promise of a barbecue summer was wrong, explaining that it was very difficult to predict what will happen in three months time. Meanwhile, they remain absolutely convinced that they know precisely what the weather will be like a century from now.” Jeremy Clarkson – August 2009

34. 7 sectionsA curriculum resourceThinking geographicallyLiving GeographyGeography and young peopleInvestigating and exploring geographyGeography and the ‘real world’Curriculum making with geography

36. Part of teachers’ role is to help students: ‘extraordinarily re-experience the ordinary’Ira Shor

37. Language of LandscapeSent out with OS Maps for 11 year olds

39. “a different view” of Edinburgh

40. 1960s...

44. 2009 ??

45. Other contexts related to everyday experiences of young people... HOLIDAYS CLOTHING FOOD SPORT ??? WATER MUSIC & MEDIA HOBBIES

46. Scenic or not...http://scenic.mysociety.org/Images from GEOGRAPH ‘a different view’ of the same picture... Is it possible to apply a numerical value to an image without knowing the context ? Do we always provide sufficient context, or perhaps too much context for the learners ?

47. Marks out of 10 for pictures...

48. Where are the images which gained the highest scores found ? Scotland

50. Landscape Photographer of the Year Winning entry

51. Soundscapes Image: Flickr user: Rune T

52. Gracenote Music Maps http://www.gracenote.com/map/

53. Fully funded by the GA7 sectionsA curriculum resourceThinking geographicallyLiving GeographyGeography and young peopleInvestigating and exploring geographyGeography and the ‘real world’Curriculum making with geography

55. “Portraits” of Landscapes

56. Toolkit book: “Look at it this way”

57. Capturing landscapes... Image: Val Vannet with thanks..

58. Toolkit ActivityWriting Task “Each time the doors sighed open at a lighted station they let in a gust of subterranean wind. It tasted metallic, of burned carbons and newsprint – a warm, industrial mistral, as particular to the city as Big Ben or red buses, quite different from the rotting vegetable odour of the New York subway or the reek of Gauloises in the Paris Metro. Everyone aboard the carriage had mastered the trick of looking as if they were alone in an empty room.” Jonathan Raban

59. You are not alone.... http://geographical.ning.com –over 1000 members

60. “mobile / handheld learning”

62. After today....

64. The “Journey Journal”...

65. Acknowledgements All images by Alan Parkinson, except Slides 1 & 3: Image copyright Seth Johnson, 2008 Slide : Image Jack Davison (GA member !) Slides 4 : Image Sally Parkinson Slide 57: ICT Snowpatch: Val Vannet Flickr users: RuneT (Headphones), Cosmic Jeep (Ailsa Craig) iPhone slides from the B3TA competition submissions Thanks to Richard Allaway for Twitter Challenge Living Geography logo by Ledgard Jepson UP images copyright Disney Pixar Ltd. 2009 Language of Landscape produced by Natural England in association with the OS and GA. Journey Journal produced by The Geography Collective and Can of Worms Publishing – logo by Tom Morgan Jones

66. Other avenues to explore.... http://livinggeography.blogspot.com – my daily blog – over 1000 posts http://www.geographycollective.co.uk - home of Mission Explore and the Journey Journal http://www.naturalengland.org.uk – download “Language of Landscape” and supporting materials http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/gettinginvolved/language-of-landscape/default.aspx http://www.geographyalltheway.com – Richard Allaway’s site, for your CPD needs, visit http://www.geographytraining.net