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Is family farming educational? The Australian experience 家庭农业有教育意义吗?澳大利亚的经验

J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography Pub Date : 2014-12-21 DOI: 10.4458/4403-05

S. Betti, A. Ceccarelli

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引用次数: 2

Vesuvius, Pompei, Herculaneum: a lesson in natural history 维苏威火山，庞贝，赫库兰尼姆:自然史上的一堂课

J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography Pub Date : 2014-12-12 DOI: 10.4458/4403-03

R. Scandone, Lisetta Giacomelli

引用次数: 5

Scale factor and image resolution: some cartographic considerations 比例因子和图像分辨率:制图方面的一些考虑

J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography Pub Date : 2014-06-24 DOI: 10.4458/3253-03

A. Favretto

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引用次数: 4

National cases, international collaboration – an example from Finland 国家案例，国际合作——芬兰的一个例子

J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography Pub Date : 2014-06-24 DOI: 10.4458/3253-01

Sirpa Tani

引用次数: 3

Looking for an international strategy for geography education 寻找地理教育的国际化战略

J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography Pub Date : 2014-06-24 DOI: 10.4458/3253-02

J. Schee

引用次数: 12

Web 2.0 and Neogeography. Opportunities for teaching geography Web 2.0和新地理。地理教学的机会

J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography Pub Date : 2013-12-30 DOI: 10.4458/2379-04

G. Borruso

{"title":"Web 2.0 and Neogeography. Opportunities for teaching geography","authors":"G. Borruso","doi":"10.4458/2379-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4458/2379-04","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is focused on the use of the geographical contents in Web 2.0 applications for didactics and particularly as a valuable source for many of the operations traditionally carried out when working with geographical data and issues in a GIS environment. The paper represents an introductory examination of to date well known topics concerning geographical data and software but with the focus of using them for teaching geographical issues and introducing them for the use of (online) Geographic Information tools. In particular it will be pointed out how geographical questions can be raised and tackled by means of data and features spread over the web and containing geographical data. There is also an analysis of how they can be elaborated cartographically. The paper opens with a short introduction to the geographical “revolutions” that took place in the late XX and early XXI centuries in the digital age, with the advent of GIS and the so-called neogeography. A brief review on how GIS and geospatial technologies in general can be effectively used to disseminate geographical issues follows. The attention is then focused on an exercise, that can be proposed to geography students, or that is, the analysis of the Italian 2013 general election. The exercise foresees the use of geocoded tweets from Twitter, the popular social media, and some of the hashtags used in the pre-election periods (#elezioni2013) to observe their concentrations. The exercise also implies working with a free web GIS service such as GeoCommons, which together with other families of similar online software, make it possible to produce maps showing some thematic representations of the results obtained as well as analyzing the data with more than basic visualization functions.","PeriodicalId":299934,"journal":{"name":"J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116661327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

A Geographical issue: the contribution of Citizenship Education to the building of a European citizenship. The case of the VOICEs Comenius network 地理问题:公民教育对欧洲公民建设的贡献。voice Comenius网络的案例

J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography Pub Date : 2013-12-30 DOI: 10.4458/2379-05

S. Malatesta, J. Sánchez

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引用次数: 2

Remote sensing and interdisciplinary approach for studying volcano environment and activity 火山环境与活动的遥感与跨学科研究方法

J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography Pub Date : 2013-07-02 DOI: 10.4458/0900-14

M. Fea, Lisetta Giacomelli, C. Pesaresi, R. Scandone

{"title":"Remote sensing and interdisciplinary approach for studying volcano environment and activity","authors":"M. Fea, Lisetta Giacomelli, C. Pesaresi, R. Scandone","doi":"10.4458/0900-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4458/0900-14","url":null,"abstract":"Remote sensing (RS), also known as “Earth Observation (EO)”, is a well-established methodology for multidisciplinary applications and represents a neuralgic tool both for research and didactics, since it makes it possible not only to obtain very useful and interesting data and information but also to implement and make use of an integrated approach for collecting inputs from different sources, processing and interpreting them and presenting the results through a variety of multimedia outputs. That is obviously true also in the case of volcanic environments and activities, in the quiescence, activity and post-event phases. During the last years, the applications of satellite and aerial images, generated from data acquired in different spectral bands, namely in the visible, infrared and microwave parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, have enormously increased. Thus, in this paper, after a brief framework about some basic elements of remote sensing, we above all provide a literary review, underlying some important examples which permit us to develop interdisciplinary approaches and to highlight different fields of application. Then, after having provided some input in a didactic perspective, we synthetically describe the main peculiarities and kind of activities that characterise some volcanoes, for which the European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN) has provided relevant images. Then, for each volcano, we propose an interpretive analysis of these images, supported by the previous explanations, in order to propose a possible scheme of referral and some guidelines to define a geographical and interdisciplinary framework aimed at showing new didactic and research horizons, where theoretical, methodological and applicative knowledge and skills converge, collaborating in a socially useful operative field.","PeriodicalId":299934,"journal":{"name":"J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121638847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 7

Making geography mobile: using location aware technology to improve student performance in physical geography 移动地理:利用位置感知技术提高学生自然地理成绩

J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography Pub Date : 2013-06-30 DOI: 10.4458/0900-09

P. Cowan, Ryan Butler

{"title":"Making geography mobile: using location aware technology to improve student performance in physical geography","authors":"P. Cowan, Ryan Butler","doi":"10.4458/0900-09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4458/0900-09","url":null,"abstract":"With the increased availability of new technologies, geography educators are revisiting their pedagogical approaches to teaching and calling for opportunities to share local and international practices which will enhance the learning experience and improve students’ performance. This paper reports on the use of handheld mobile devices, fitted with GPS, by secondary (high) school pupils in geography. Two location-aware activities were completed over one academic year (one per semester) and pre-test and post-test scores for both topics revealed a statistically significant increase in pupils’ performance as measured by the standard national assessments. A learner centred educational approach was adopted with the first mobile learning activity being created by the teacher as an exemplar of effective mobile learning design. Pupils built on their experiences of using mobile learning when they were required to created their own location aware learning task for peer use. An analysis of the qualitative data from the pupils’ journals, group diaries and focus group interviews revealed the five pillars of learner centred education are addressed when using location aware technologies and the use of handheld mobile devices offered greater flexibility and autonomy to the pupils thus altering the level of power and control away from the teacher. Due to the relatively small number of participants in the study, the results are more informative than generalisable however in light of the growing interest in geo-spatial technologies in geography education, this paper offers encouragement and insight into the use of location aware technology in a compulsory school context","PeriodicalId":299934,"journal":{"name":"J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132082752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 9

The reduction of volcanic risk in the Neapolitan area 那不勒斯地区火山风险的降低

J-Reading - Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography Pub Date : 2012-12-21 DOI: 10.4458/1005-04

R. Scandone, Lisetta Giacomelli

引用次数: 2