Visualizing The Complexities Of Time and Place

Source: ASIDE 2019

Mapping challenges learners to think, develop literacy skills, and understand the complexity of global issues, design, and data. There is a direct correlation between the act of making a map and the knowledge acquired by doing it. Mapping their own visualizations increases a student’s understanding; they become more actively engaged in the learning process. This exercise in fine-tuning reinforces the notion of relational meaning and spatial adjacency. It is the fluid movement of change in time, position and detail instead of a static fixed point. It is about observing patterns or relationships alongside external connections. The chance to practice visual thinking through the mapping process builds proficiencies in reading multimodal, visual inputs.

Source: ASIDE 2019

Lessons And Resources

 

Mapping Activities For The Classroom

• 10 Ways Pokemon Go Augments Real-World Education & Student Learning
• Sketchnoting, Mapping, And Making Enhance The Visual Thinking Process
• Rethinking Global Education - Maps As Social Media
• Geography: An Impromptu Kid Visualization
• Mapping By Hand: Another Case For Paper
• Geography On A Different Scale
• Maps In The Wild

Current Events & Map Engagement

• Visualizing The Summer Olympics - Mapping The 2016 Torch Relay
• The Geography Of The Cold - Interactive Mapping Of Flu Season
• Making It Personal - Maps & Visualizations To Teach Disasters
• Visualizing The Winter Olympics - Mapping The 2014 Torch Relay

Modern Maps & Contemporary Theory

• Can Maps Save The Planet? The Interactive Geography Of Crisis
• Digital Empathy: How Modern Maps Are Charting A Personal Cartography
• Geography Is Having A Moment - Why Maps Are The New Meme
• The Visual Politics Of Cartography
• Mapping The Visual Beyond The Visible

 Digital Tools And Hands On, Experiential Mapping

Source: Logos For Referenced Sites

• Mapskip
• Kullect
• Everplaces 
• TagWhat
• Findery
• Leaflet
• Korsakow 
• Geocommons
• Open Layers
• Ushahidi

Mapping As Social Narrative

• Maptia: reimagines geography as a social narratives
• Mapbox: choose layers and details to quickly share online
• Mapstack: create custom maps, with easy access to social portals

Jerry's Map from Jerry Gretzinger on Vimeo.

Student Hope Sculptures: The Analog Version

Source: 6th Grade Students, ASIDE 2019

In our last post, we wrote about using the "Building Hopes" website, or app, to create "Hope Sculptures." While we realize the value of technology, sometimes the simple act of looking, drawing, and coloring by hand is just as effective.

Source: 6th Grade Student, ASIDE 2019

Our students in their leadership class used their Chromebooks to view the web version, in order to select the topics that were most important to them. They used social media to share them with others, but then they also constructed these hand-drawn sculptures to display in the library.

Source: 6th Grader, ASIDE 2019

Their drawings received a lot of attention from other students who wanted to know more about the designs, and so we thought we would share their visual creations with our followers.

It was touching to see how this exhibit led to lots of students thinking about hopeful things that were important to them, as well as wanting to know how to build their own sculptures to share.

Source: 6th Grader, ASIDE 2019

We were delighted to assist the students in this activity, and we posted the website on their student portal. They went straight to work, carefully selecting their choices to design their own personal, hope sculptures.

Source: 6th Grader, ASIDE 2019

Of course, we had plenty of colored pencils and paper around for them, too.