A highlight for many was the Saturday keynote by charismatic statistician Hans Rosling.
Hans has featured on a number of TED talks, and is the creator of the vital Gapminder tool, which I find myself telling almost every group of teachers that I work with about. It also featured in a booklet that I produced for the Functional Skills national strategy document (click the link to download the booklet in PDF format)
Image by Bryan Ledgard
Copyright: Geographical Association
Bob Lang, Hans Rosling, Daniel Lapidus and Paula Cooper
The title of the talk was "A fact based world view" and it covered a range of topics, including the power of geography, and the importance of data. The world is not divided into developed and developing, but there are many places along a continuum. Gapminder tools can help to visualise the changes over time.
The GA WEBSITE has a range of resources for use with Gapminder. The wonderful Paula Cooper wrote the resources.
Bob Lang, who has done a great deal to connect the GA with Gapminder presented a follow-up lecture which showed the wider geographical importance of the work that Hans and colleagues are doing.
Play the GAPMINDER CARD SORT game too...
See Hans talk about the importance of reducing CHILD MORTALITY here, although as David Rogers said, seeing Hans live will always be more powerful than any video...
Hans has featured on a number of TED talks, and is the creator of the vital Gapminder tool, which I find myself telling almost every group of teachers that I work with about. It also featured in a booklet that I produced for the Functional Skills national strategy document (click the link to download the booklet in PDF format)
Image by Bryan Ledgard
Copyright: Geographical Association
Bob Lang, Hans Rosling, Daniel Lapidus and Paula Cooper
The title of the talk was "A fact based world view" and it covered a range of topics, including the power of geography, and the importance of data. The world is not divided into developed and developing, but there are many places along a continuum. Gapminder tools can help to visualise the changes over time.
The GA WEBSITE has a range of resources for use with Gapminder. The wonderful Paula Cooper wrote the resources.
Bob Lang, who has done a great deal to connect the GA with Gapminder presented a follow-up lecture which showed the wider geographical importance of the work that Hans and colleagues are doing.
Play the GAPMINDER CARD SORT game too...
See Hans talk about the importance of reducing CHILD MORTALITY here, although as David Rogers said, seeing Hans live will always be more powerful than any video...
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