Available on BBC iPlayer for the next month or so and well worth catching up with...

A good aim to have for the day...

Add in David’s description of what we mean by curriculum making and in the context of YPG Hand out or on USB stick

A set of notes on slide 1

“Everyday Geography” Image by Flickr user duncan under Creative Commons

Alan Parkinson Born 1963 Students in Year 7 – born 1998 Students in Year 13 – born 1992

Children of the “Noughties”

Image by disco~stu (Flickr)

Tweet (first day after recent snow) One aim So that students say: “I get to do geography today” rather than “I have to do geography today”...

Young People : say hello to Martin He has geography with you tomorrow…

Young People’s Geographies Action Plan Funded project 2006 – present Students having agency http://youngpeoplesgeographies.co.uk/

GA: Curriculum Making & Young People “..we want students to realise that geography can be ‘about them’, growing up in the world...”

Geography = writing the earth Opportunities for writing and story telling ?

Students The Subject Teachers

creativity

NINTENDO DS GAME

“This game is very good but anyone looking to become a teacher and thinking this may help is wrong, simply because you don’t learn very much and the lessons are very short....” Comment on Amazon website

Teachers as “curriculum makers”

Margaret Roberts “cycle”...

Starter : Jim Kosek

What matters to young people ? What interests young people ? What excites young people ?

Research into Young People... A beta life….

“To work out how to operate a TV set you practically have to make love to the thing."

consumption culture community

Hot or cold ? Winners and losers in the big freeze... A starter

http://www.lovelylingfield.com/images/sledge_minibob.gif

Flickr CC: ECOSOSLOG

“Teacher talk dominates classrooms and controls the process by which communication takes place, by deciding what kind of talk is permissible, by whom and for how long.” Margaret Roberts

Courtesy: Learning Teaching Scotland

Persuasive writing

Why is this house so cheap ?

Where else might you try to sell a house ? Activity: estate agents writing

Other possible locations that might be hard to sell.... ??

place & space

food

Gracenote Maps http://www.gracenote.com/map/

interdependence connections IMAGE: Flickr User DrJohn_2005 Creative Commons

“Age of Plastic” Image: FLICKR user: ncr23 – Creative Commons licensed

lifestyles... PETS “2 German shepherd dogs use more resources per year than the average Bangladeshi...” sustainability

“The Language of Landscape”

Tony Cassidy’s iPhone app

Environment Agency

What other contexts could this be used for ?

Crime and Globalisation

Social media Facebook template http://slideshare.net/tonycassidy

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Image by Flickr user Bu Yousef

The blog and the book

The Geographical Association “furthering the learning and teaching of geography”