Attended the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers (SAGT) Annual Conference in Dundee today. Plenty of stimulating and original ideas from guest speakers, as well as goodie bag, made of jute, appropriately.
One web site that we had the chance to learn more about is Geograph. if you are a photographer, then this is the site for you, as the aim is to produce a map that will have photographic coverage of every grid square in the UK. There are already 250 000 images, but room for plenty more-large parts of Scotland are not yet covered, including some parts of Renfrewshire-a good idea for Duke of Edinburgh??
One of the items in the goodie bag was the SAGT journal, which this year is a survey of geographical education in Scotland from "earliest times"to the present day by two stalwarts of geographical education themselves, Kenneth Mclean and Norman Thomson. It was interesting to compare the approach to geography advocated at Conference, with emphasis on ICT, podcasts, wikis and blogs, with the methods and expectations of previous generations. One thing that has changed markedly is the nature of geography examinations...
Higher pupils may wish to ponder the following questions, from 1960:
"Write a systematic account of the economic geography of either the North-East of England or the Central Lowlands of Scotland"
"Write a short essay on either market gardening in Holland or fishing in Norway."
If we had to write a similar kind of question for our times, what might we ask ?
Quiz for pupils-5 questions on Dundee.
1. What are the Three Js
2. Who are DC Thomson&co
3. What is Dundee's population?
4. What happened on 28th December 1879?
5. Who plays at Dens park?
e-mail answers to my school address.
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