Amazing. Maybe we can write up a blog post for HOT on this together. Will connect offlist
Heather On 2 Jul 2017 16:14, "Marco Minghini" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Heather and all, > as Cristiano said, over the last few years we have organized at > Politecnico di Milano what we called "mini-mapathons" in primary schools > around Como and Milan (Italy) with 9 and 10 year-old children. For those > interested, here you can find a paper about the educational value of the > experience (it contains an analysis based on a questionnaire filled by the > children after the event): > https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6BKomTX0AsKMnByQjhDZGFsYkk > I am strongly interested in this topic so I'm happy to further chat about > this. > All the best, > > Marco > > Marco Minghini, Ph.D. > GEOlab, Politecnico di Milano - DICA > Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano (Italy) > +39 02 23996409 <+39%2002%202399%206409> > [email protected] > @MarcoMinghini <https://twitter.com/MarcoMinghini> > > 2017-07-01 10:00 GMT+02:00 Felix Delattre <[email protected]>: > >> Hi Heather and dear HOT community, >> >> Great to learn about your projects! I would like to be in contact about >> this topic. >> >> A couple of years ago, we have been conducting mapping workshops with >> children (4th and 9th grade) and college students on Nicaragua's Caribbean >> Coast: >> >> Here are a couple of articles (in English): >> >> * http://en.unicef.org.ni/prensa/140/ >> * http://en.unicef.org.ni/prensa/141 >> >> Here you can find the publication of the community effort and the >> methodology we elaborated: >> >> http://en.unicef.org.ni/publicacion/96/geotechnology-tool-innovation/ >> (download link for the pdf at the bottom) >> >> Best, >> Felix >> >> >> >> On July 1, 2017 1:50:25 AM GMT+02:00, Cristiano Giovando < >> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Heather and all, >>> >>> Marco from Politecnico di Milano has been organizing similar events with >>> even younger kids (fifth-graders!) and the results were impressive. I'm >>> sure he'd be happy to share his opinions and experience. >>> >>> Some links: >>> >>> https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2016-03-09_200_kids_map_ >>> swaziland_for_malaria_elimination >>> http://www.geoforall.org/webinars/ (scroll down to the May 5th 2016 >>> webinar) >>> >>> Happy mapping! >>> >>> Cristiano >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Steven Johnson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Heather & list, >>>> tl;dr; - Let's chat. >>>> >>>> Since the beginning of the year, TeachOSM has been collaborating with >>>> the American Geographical Society[1] to host a series of online workshops >>>> for high school (but also college) instructors. The workshops are designed >>>> to augment basic mapping training by helping teachers take the next step of >>>> integrating open mapping to their curricula., The workshops also act >>>> as an ongoing support service and forum for project development. >>>> >>>> As part of this collaboration, we're pulling together a 4-part Open >>>> Mapping Summer Camp for teachers. It has not been announced yet as details >>>> are still pending. But our plan is to introduce and test the modules in the >>>> TeachOSM for High School curriculum[2]. The curriculum is designed to >>>> compliment the AP Human Geography curriculum.[3] >>>> >>>> That's the gist of it. Happy to chat with any and all. Cheers, >>>> >>>> SEJ >>>> >>>> [1] http://americangeo.org >>>> [2] https://github.com/shawnmgoulet/teachosm-for-high-school >>>> [3] https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-human-geography >>>> >>>> -- SEJ >>>> -- twitter: @geomantic >>>> -- skype: sejohnson8 >>>> >>>> Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans! - Empedocles, >>>> *Fragments, >>>> 141.* >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Heather Leson <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear colleagues, >>>>> >>>>> Many of you have teaching experience and have shared curriculum on >>>>> TeachOSM. I'd be keen to talk with anyone who has does mapping workshops >>>>> with high school students. >>>>> >>>>> This week I held a session with Ecole Internationale Geneva focused on >>>>> Missing Maps techniques. The session plan is listed in the blog post. >>>>> >>>>> http://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/2017/06/29/data-ifrc-maps-kids-hu >>>>> manitarian-outreach-16/ >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Heather >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Heather Leson >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson >>>>> Blog: textontechs.com >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> HOT mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> HOT mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Cristiano Giovando >>> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.hotosm.org >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> Join us at the HOT Summit! >>> 14-15 September, Ottawa >>> http://summit.hotosm.org >>> >> >> -- >> Sent from my phone; if there are typos I will still be quite annoyed at >> myself. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> >
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