school on the cloud: lessons from digital earth, karl donert
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Presentation from the 2nd Scientix Conference, 24-26 Ocotober 2014, Brussels, BelgiumTRANSCRIPT
Karl Donert, President EUROGEO, Director: European Centre of Excellence: digital-earth.eu
Scientix conference, Brussels, BE, October 22 2014
School on the Cloud: lessons from the Digital Earth network
EUROGEO
• European Association of Geographers legally based in Belgium
• International NGO – established 1979 by the European Commission to network geographers
• A professional association for geo- scientists and related areas
• Strong expertise in networking, evaluation, research
• Networking: Digital-earth.eu
• Tools: I-Use
• Training: iGuess & iGuess2
• Concepts: Spatial Citizenship
• Careers: GeoSkills Plus
• Leadership: GeoCapabilities
EUROGEO: geo-education projects
European Journal of Geographyhttp://www.eurogeographyjournal.eu
“A fine journal with excellent and widely cited papers on European geography”The SCOPUS Evaluation Team (2014)
Translating the vital work of geo-scientists into the policy arena
Varga, A., & Parag, A. (2009). Academic knowledge transfers and the
structure of international research networks. University knowledge transfers
and regional development: Geography, entrepreneurship and policy. Edward
Elgar Publishers, 138-159.
“ Our results indicate that the quality of
international network connections matters for
academic knowledge transfers. ….. not only is the
distribution of public research expenditures across
different research projects important but also the
position from which researchers enter international
networks and the level of knowledge accumulated in
those networks.”
• like minded people – similar interests
• widely dispersed initiatives, share a common infrastructure (Kemp, 1998)
• essential for the adoption of innovation and implementation of change (Murgio et al., 2002)
• networking critical to improve quality (EC, 2003)
• establish visions for the future – new projects
Digital Earth and Networking
Kemp, K.K. (1998), What's missing? What do we need?. http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/ige98/report/missing.html
Building our School on the Cloud Network
Four characteristics (Hausman and Goldring, 2001)
• shared values among members,
• common set of events that promote face-to-face interaction between participants,
• collaboration among stakeholders and
• commitment to the network and its actions
Hausman, C. S. and Goldring, E. B. (2001), Sustaining Teacher Commitment: The Role of Professional Communities, Peabody Journal of Education, 76(2): 30-51
Karl Donert, President EUROGEO, Director: European Centre of Excellence: digital-earth.eu
Scientix 2014 conference, Brussels, BE, October 24-26 2014
Digital-earth.eu NetworkConnecting education to the ‘geo-science’
needs of Europe
Digital Earth
Gore A (1992; 1998), The Digital Earth: Understanding Our Planet
Developing rapidly and pervasively
Digital Earth provides crucial links between nature and society
Nature: Physical equations
Describe processes
Society: Decisions on how to
Use the Earth´s resources
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Competences and spatial citizenship
Donert K, Gryl I and Jekel T (2010), GI & Spatial Citizenship, In Jekel T, Donert K, Koller A and Vogler R,
Learning with GeoInformation V, Berlin, Wichman Verlag
Spatial Citizenship
• way of mind, to help navigate the world - visualisations
• how we use/organise space around us
• crucial to solving problems, big &small
Spatial thinking
• Infrastructure issues: soft- hard-ware,
• Low knowledge of teachers, low confidence
• No time in the curriculum, curriculum too full
• Not in teacher training curriculum
• Decision makers unaware of importance
• No guidelines what students should be able to do(Needs Analysis, digital-earth.eu Project, 2011)
Needs Analysis: Main issues
Not many teachers involved
Too few young people with the necessary awareness, skills, knowledge and experience
Need 1: support for grassroots actors – teachers and educators
Need 2: target key decision makers – politicians (EU /national), Ministries, ICT coordinators, curriculum developers, geospatial industry etc.
Networking Digital Earth
• Shared resources, ideas and activities
• Introduced new concepts - geographic (geo-)media – spatial citizenship
• Created an infrastructure (Centres of Excellence) (cross-border)
• Raised awareness – politicians, industry, decision makers, education
• Connected with major European initiatives –Digital Agenda - Open Data – Europe 2020 – New skills, new jobs
Project outcomesdigital-earth.eu outcomes ….
…..EDU Project
01.05.2013 – 31.10.2014
YouthMap 5020: „Entwicklung einer Kartenapplikation für Salzburg für und
durch Kinder & Jugendliche“
This project develops a youth-specific web-based map for Salzburg based on ArcGIS online. Pupils from 6 partner schools participate the entire application development process and bring in their specific requirements. FFG “Talente Regional”
Project-Nr.: 839717http://www.ffg.at/2-ausschreibung-talente-regional-gefoerderte-
projekte
with support from &
Attendance: over 4.800 participants in 220 events, …
360 teachers / trainee teachers
110 student teachers
3700 students with 241 accompanying teachers
Coverage: Participants from 241 educational
institutionsSpread in further schools through participating
trainee teachers
Course offering: For all types of school and teacher training
GIS-Station, Heidelberg, Pedagogical
University
Bulgarian Centre
GI Analytics, SME
IFE-ENS Lyon French Digital Earth Centre of Excellence
Geoliteracy
Using geolocalization
for creating tales Sonic mapping:
Using audio data for
creating maps
Collaborative mapping:
Using AGOL for creating
collaborative maps
Learning with
Games: Introduce
serious gaming
into the learning
process
Tactileo
Using mobile devices to learn
Digital Earth: the future
• New projects / initiatives–Crowdsourcing
–Citizen Science
–Hazards Education
–Spatial Planning
–Teachers as leaders
–Geo-VET
Digital-earth.eu Project outcomes ….
Digital Earth: the future
• Research through Centres of Excellence• H2020 proposals
• Further networking– School on the Cloud
• Industry / Policy Partnerships – ESRI - ArcGIS Online for organisations
– Founder members of European Citizen Science Association
– EEA ‘Eye on Earth’ stakeholder group
Digital-earth.eu Project outcomes ….
School on the Cloud Network
http://www.schoolonthecloud.eu@schoolon_cloud
https://www.facebook.com/SchoolOntheCloudLinkedin group schooloncloud-7426807
Society is different today..
The Future of Technology, Matt
Britland, The Guardian: 19 June 2013, http://tinyurl.com/o65bvcr
The Future of Technology, Matt
Britland, The Guardian: 19 June 2013, http://tinyurl.com/o65bvcr
The Future of Technology, Matt
Britland, The Guardian: 19 June 2013, http://tinyurl.com/o65bvcr
SoC: State of the art results
• Partners could not define what the Cloud was
• They were not aware of Cloud Computing characteristics 4/57
• They confused reality with perception in characteristics
• They used the Cloud themselves
• But not their organisations
SoC State of the art: Why should the Cloud be used in education? (n=57)
Easy access.Stability.Security.
Shareability.Trackability.
Collaboration.No more photocopying
Chances of losing content are quite small.
Role of teachers and the Cloud
-1.50
-1.00
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0.50
1.00
1.50
Degree of impact
FacilitatorMentor/coachInformation managerCatalyst for changeLearner
0
SoC: Four Working Groups
WG 1 Lead/manage the Cloud: transition
WG 2 i(nnovative) Teacher
WG 3 Learner focus: personlaisation
WG 4 Future scenarios for education?
Transition to the Cloud
iTeachers: Getting Smart?
iLearner(s)
Dealing with the Future
The cloud has extended our resources. Today scientists instantly share their research findings among colleagues; digital images of constellations are accessed by students and astronomers and electronic funds exchanges are routine between government treasuries. These applications all have indications for expanding the virtual education experience today. The goal is ...to expand campus education to meet the demands of our global culture
School on the Cloud
Citizens as prosumersproducers + consumers of data
Cloudy Conclusions for education
Amazing
Challenging
Persuasive
Disruptive
UbiquitousCartoons from: http://cloudtweaks.com/category/cloud-computing/cartoon/
Cloud Characteristics
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Cloud charateristicsnumber of replies
Examples of Cloud-based tools or approaches
Pitfalls or concerns about Cloud-based education
Barriers to use the Cloud (for education) in your organisation
5.80
5.90
6.00
6.10
6.20
6.30
6.40
6.50
Issues affecting Cloud takeup, scale 0-9
Challenges in using the Cloud for personalised learning
