[Talk-GB] Schools and OSM

Dan S danstowell+osm at gmail.com
Wed Jan 1 13:16:26 UTC 2014


Well fwiw, the curriculum here
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-geography-programmes-of-study
mentions GIS but doesn't give much detail...

Dan



2013/12/31 Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net>:
> Well spotted! Getting a hold of the curriculum materials would be a good
> place to start, so we could look for opportunities for them to learn about
> OSM.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
>
> On 31 December 2013 11:05, Brian Prangle <bprangle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> I've just read in a magazine that GIS is now specified in the new
>> geography curriculum from Key Stage 3 through to A levels, which means 3.5
>> milllion 11-18 year olds ned to learn about GIS. ESRI already have a Schools
>> programme in place to take advantage of this.
>>
>> Is this an opportunity for OpenStreetMap?  How would we start?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Brian
>>
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