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Spatially Speaking - News & Updates
July 2007
The project has grown as new members have joined the group bringing research interests, experience with GIS, enthusiasm and a range of subject perspectives, including an ICT teacher and biology teacher adding to the geographers.
For 2007-8, the overall project aims remain the same, but with several new angles. The OS/BECTA pilot project to make UK mastermap data available to download in school will give the group the chance to make use of this resource with Digital Worlds, ArcView, AEGIS and a range of other GIS software. The group will be feeding their evaluations of how the data supported learning, with the likelihood that the map data will be made available to all state school, and possibly independent schools in the future.
Jason Sawle has kindly made the new version of Digital Worlds software available for a trial period to the group, this and ESRI's other main GIS software, ArcView, are the software being used by most of the group, but others are also being used, including AEGIS and the web-based GIS, 'Edumap', from Mapalytics. The latter will be used by PGCE students at the IOE, London and the benefits to learning evaluated as part of their PGCE geography assessment.
Sara Price, a researcher at the IOE is undertaking a pilot study to look at how Google Earth type representations impact on students' learning activity. She hopes this will lead into a bigger research project Sara is a cognitive psychologist interested in education, and her findings could be very useful for understanding the benefits of this aspect of learning with GIS and how we can plan to make best use of the technology
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