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- A Teacher Toolkit for Integrating Geospatial Concepts into Science Learning
- What is GeoSciTeach?
- Going geospatial in science – a framework for teachers
- Geospatial in science
- Learnability (of using app)
- Comparing bananas and coffee
- Thinking geographically and spatially
- Other contexts of use
- Thoughts about linking the use of ‘GeoSciTeach’ with the classroom
Category Archives: Participant design and usability
Learnability (of using app)
Teachers said that student’s familiarity with the technical aspects of mobile smartphones was an important part of its use. Several of the teachers and students thought that the app was ‘easy’ to use, and easy to learn to use. For … Continue reading
GeoSciTeach app: Easy to use
During their experience at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, both students and teachers talked about how easy the app was to use, and to navigate around. From the students perspective: Interviewer: Good. I’m glad. And how long do you think … Continue reading
Using the video and YouTube features
A student talks to the researcher about how they used video and YouTube features on the GeoSciTeach app during their experience at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. Interviewer: So were there any other bits on the app that you … Continue reading
Who is GeoSciTeach for?
Developed for use in secondary school (ages 11-18 years), GeoSciTeach is specifically designed to be used by both teachers and students in science classes. Being fully customisable means teachers are able to modify and adapt the application to meet the … Continue reading
Understanding patterns using data linked to geospatial representations
The transcription below is interesting as it shows that patterns of understanding are broadened and simplified using data linked to geospatial representations. Interview 3: School Pupil. Girl aged 12/13. Interviewer: So what did you think then of using the app? … Continue reading
Usability (and utility) testing in GeoSciTeach
The focus of our project has been collectively on designing for and testing a) technical usability and learnability of the app (i.e. whether the functionality is clear, the app easy to learn to use in terms of steps through from … Continue reading
Reading around OpenLayers, and INSETs
Been reading other JISCgeo sites to see what to do with the potential problem of providing multiple layers for mobile platforms. The general agreement seems to be that whilst OpenLayer is good for high level GIS understanding, it is hard … Continue reading
Using GeoSciTeach with teachers in schools
I had a meeting this morning with a teacher from a school in London that was involved in the Kew trip. She said that the year 9’s at the school would be good to use with the phone application in … Continue reading
Interviews…with participants – more early themes
Interviewing participants on the project has suggested a number of themes which can be broadly split into two categories: Usability Knowledge acquisition Interviews with participants so far suggests that the app is still in a pilot phase (not surprisingly) as … Continue reading
thinking about the use of app in field work
we observed the phones and app being used in Kew over two days – really interesting what struck me was how situated the use of the app was and i have tried to pull out a few thoughts on that … Continue reading
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