[HOT] Mapping with Kids

[Felix Delattre]

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 <cristiano.giovando at hotosm.org> 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 <sejohnson8 at gmail.com>
>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
><heatherleson at gmail.com>
>> 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-
>>> humanitarian-outreach-16/
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Heather
>>>
>>>
>>> Heather Leson
>>> heatherleson at gmail.com
>>> Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson
>>> Blog: textontechs.com
>>>
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>
>-- 
>Cristiano Giovando
>Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
>cristiano.giovando at hotosm.org
>http://www.hotosm.org
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