GI Learner Conference - Ghent - Day 3 and 4

This has been in draft for a couple of months, so I'll get this posted...

I've been involved with this project for the last three years.

GI Learner has developed a complete learning line to effectively implement geospatial thinking in secondary education.

We develop – using the building blocks included in the learning line – a basic understanding and comprehension of geospatial thinking: what is it, what can I do with it, how do I learn to work with it.

A learning line is basically a progression of skills which runs for 6 years (two x three year blocks because of the funding that Erasmus provides)

We have developed a series of competencies which develop over time.

The project is coming to an end, and we held a final meeting and conference in Ghent where we outlined how the project had developed to date, and showcased the resources that we have produced to teachers.

We have published some interesting papers and it's been good to have been an author on one of them.
Here are link to the main papers that we posted near the start of the project, as we were developing our thinking.

On the 3rd day of our meeting, it was the conference itself, at the University of Gent's Het Pand centre.

Thanks to Brendan, Helen, Sophie and David from the UK for coming along. Also good to meet Mathijs Booden in the flesh. 
Thanks to the other teachers from various European teachers who came along on the day.

We introduced some of the resources, and gave people the chance to use them and feed back. I also talked through the thinking behind the work that I did on the local area resources.
This was an adaptation of work presented at the GI Forum in Salzburg.

You can take a look for yourself and see the outcomes.

Images: Luc Zwartjes / Alan Parkinson