[HOT] Mapping with Kids

[Heather Leson]

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" <marco.minghini86 at gmail.com> 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>
> marco.minghini at polimi.it
> @MarcoMinghini <https://twitter.com/MarcoMinghini>
>
> 2017-07-01 10:00 GMT+02:00 Felix Delattre <felix.delattre at hotosm.org>:
>
>> 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-hu
>>>>> manitarian-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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>>
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>> Sent from my phone;  if there are typos I will still be quite annoyed at
>> myself.
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