A new online Teaching Geography in the 21st Century course
Join me in an online Teaching Geography in the 21st Century course through eNetLearning.
As the COVID-19 situation makes sadly and abundantly clear, geography is more relevant now than ever before. Furthermore, the maps and dashboards that you and millions of others have been looking at were created using powerful web based mapping tools. You have access to these same tools as an instructor, and so do your students!
How should modern geography be taught? What approaches, tools, readings, activities, and data should be used to foster engagement with the geographic inquiry process? This course will include discussion, videos, readings, short assessments, and hands-on activities with interactive 2D and 3D maps, infographics, field surveys, storymaps, and more. The course is 5 weeks in duration, asynchronous, offering 3 hours per week of immersion, and is aimed at primary and secondary educators who will ultimately use these techniques, tools, maps, and perspectives with their students, though the course is open to anyone.
https://www.enetlearning.org/register-for-courses/teaching-geography-in-todays-world-5/ will take you to the registration form.
Course Outcomes: By the end of this course, participants will be equipped to:
1) Identify, describe, and discuss the urban, economic, environmental, land use, natural hazards, health, and population issues foundational to geography at different geographical and temporal scales.
2) Apply geographic principles to effectively teach geography with the geographic perspective.
3) Understand how to incorporate geospatial technologies, including dynamic web maps, charts, and data, to teach geography.
A few of the maps and investigations (left, human impact on the planet, and right, natural hazards of all kinds) that we will cover in this course.