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Mapping the NMLs to Resources
Google Lit Trips and Rumsey’s Historical Maps
Takes the teacher to a whole to new world, needing to visual, connect it. What Henry mentioned about film experience.
Overlay map of how geography has changes, drawing from a lit book. It clicked..
Rumsey historic map, peel the layers of history off.
Why they do what do because of where they live
Humanities connection
Reinforce real world connections, the value of the media to bring students to a topic, increase engagement.
Reinvigorating classics - make way for ducklings
Skills:
visualization, transmedia navigation, distributed cognition (for both the teacher and the student), appropriation (taking something that was static and remixing so that it’s more vibrant),performance (taking things and putting them together)
need to stay away from sites that tantalize, stay away from things that cost money, easily accessible
e-pals
free for connecting students in different parts of the world
collective intelligence, negotiation (you can’t have collective intelligence without negotiation)
Vizualization, Negotiation:
Material World:
the one book MaryEllen would teach from if there was a total system failure.
negotiation (what does it cost to feed a family?), visualization
Hungry Planet - the photography, analyzing the visual
Simulations - stock market game, creative problem solving games, Muzzy Lane,
Tom Snyder:
Community Construction Kit
Decisions, Decisions
Neighborhood Map Machine
Inspirer
Mapping the World by Heart (David Smith)
If the World Were a Village (David Smith) - if the world were 100, 3 would have computers, how many would be dead by 30, etc.
Jean FritzHuge connection to Geography - being a little girl in China, letter to grandparents in Michigan.
Fallen Fruit
Public Fruit Trees
Flat Stanley
geopets, where they go, gnome project, captured frog
tracking the flat stanley online - have it come back to school
Social Networking In General
performance, negotiation
Throw Your Tooth on the Roof
coming of age rituals from around the world - losing teeth
Fieldscope.us
NatGeo - new tool, collecting social and environmental data
Value of NMLs
adding the NMLs as overlay, metacognition
equipping them with the jargon - it’s a negotiation that always them to open new doors
especially newer teachers
Judgment/Collective Intelligence:
How do get kids to understand that each perspective is one, but heavily valuable perspectives
Challenges:
How to keeo current when the issues change - transparency issue - international cartographic society mediates, and groups like national geographic have to make tough decisions. Teacher supply stores in different countries.
Safety challenge - cole
Trying to find the rationale for: This is important because… limited time, limited resources
How to Lie with Maps - judgment, visualization,
Michael Wesch - youtube youtube ethnography, world simulation game - mediated cultures
What a TSG could be:
Conceptual Framework
What could/would this look like? Pitfalls, challenges, best practices.
Where do I start? Resources
Jenna’s diagram for organizing the tools!
