Innovative Classrooms: Mapping Your Way

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Innovative Classrooms Mapping Your Way

• David Richardson and Susan Tyree

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What Innovative Classrooms Look Like

• Authentic assessment
• Project-based learning
• Technology innovations
• School to career opportunities

Excerpted from Edutopia Online
http//www.glef.org/
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Performance Assessment

• Measure what kids can do with knowledge, not how
  many right answers they can give to questions.
  Seymour Papert

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Project Based Learning

• Students work together in groups to solve
  challenging problems that are authentic,
  curriculum-based, and often interdisciplinary.
  Gwen Solomon, Technology and Learning
• The teacher is learning at the same time as the
  students and with the students

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Technology Innovation

• We have given students a research tool and
  databases used by scientists, analysts, and
  planners in the field.

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School to Work
482 Jobs Posted on Monster.com in 7 days in
Florida.
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What Innovative Classrooms Feel Like
What students do is meaningful
Students have a sense of accomplishment and pride
in their finished product
Students are engaged and motivated
Students take control of their learning
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What is GIS?

• GIS  is a computer software that allows you to
  store, analyze and display data LINKED TOGETHER
  GEOGRAPHICALLY.
• With this program you can manage information of
  any kind according to where it is located.

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Data Can Be Queried
The data tables can be queried and the results
displayed geographically.
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Themes

• The data is layered together in themes.
• Each theme of data has its own database of
  attributes attached.
• There are three types of themes  polygons,
  lines, and points. 

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We can project Sugarloaf Key
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Adding GPS Data

• Points can be collected with GPS unit.
• These points can be downloaded into the GIS
  program.

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Data Added To GIS as a Table
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Table Data Added to View
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Publish to the Web

• Research and data can be combined to publish on
  the web for authentic assessment of student
  projects.
• Key Largo School
• Sugarloaf School
• Where to publish
• School district web sites
• Web World Wonders

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Resources

• David Richardson
• richardsond_at_monroe.k12.fl.us
• http//www.monroe.k12.fl.us/sls/
• Sugarloaf School
• 255 Crane Blvd.
• Summerland Key, FL 33042
• Telephone [phone]         
  Fax[phone] 
• Florida Geographic Alliance
• Dr. Laurie Molina
• lmolina_at_admin.fsu.edu
• http//fga.freac.fsu.edu/

• Susan Tyree
• tyrees_at_monroe.k12.fl.us
• http//www.keylargoschool.com
• Key Largo School
• 104801 Overseas Highway
• Key Largo, FL 33037
• Telephone [phone]
• Fax [phone]