[Teachosm] TeachOSM for High School | A Mozilla Open Leadership Training Project

[Shawn Goulet]

Hi Everyone,

Hope this email finds you well wherever it may find you.  I wanted to share
with the list that a project idea I submitted to Mozilla's Open Leadership
Training Round 3
<https://mozilla.github.io/leadership-training/projects/#teachosm-for-high-school>
was selected and explain to you why I need your help.

*Background*
In 2017, I believe (like I'm sure most of you do) that it is time teenage
students gain exposure to and experience in geospatial software.  The OSM
project provides an integrate-able platform for teachers to assign
contribution tasks and an appropriate software for students to attain
appropriate geospatial skills.  I have been loosely working on the project
over the past few years with local high school AP Human Geography teachers
and their students <http://teachosm.org/en/cases/cape-cod/>.  We have even
had some involvement from interested younger students as well.  I wish this
kind of opportunity was even possible when I was a high school student and
can only hope this early exposure will translate to an increase in future
innovation around the OSM project and sustained contributions for years to
come.

*Working Project Summary*
This project seeks to equip secondary school educators with a scale-able
TeachOSM for High School curriculum providing seamless incorporation into
their existing geography curriculum without negatively impacting their
existing workload and students' experience.  In turn, this scale-able
curriculum provides students with 21st century geospatial experience and
skills and a meaningful opportunity to contribute to an international
project having significant positive social impacts.

Quite simply, I want to make it easy & scale-able for instructors to
incorporate OSM guidelines (best practices for contributions) AND
contributions into their existing curriculum for their students.


*For You*

   - Get involved - email <shawn.goulet at gmail.com> or Twitter
   <http://twitter.com/shawnmgoulet>
   - Share this with your connections - professional & academia!

*Conclusion*
Do I think this is an "easy" project?  No.  Working with oft overworked
instructors and students is never easy.  However, this is worth it for
reasons aforementioned.  I do think there is momentum around this project.
Steven Johnson has recently held workshops with United States high school
Advanced Placement teachers and is hearing, among other things, that
teachers need an easy path towards execution.  Also, in the proposed AP GIS
& Technology <http://apgist.org/> currently needs letters of attestation.
Please share this with your high school AND college contacts!  It is
paramount that we keep the momentum building with this.

Sorry for the length of this - hope to hear from a lot of you, soon!
Shawn
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