PřF:Z7150 ICT in Geography Education - Course Information

Z7150 ICT in Geographical Education

Extent and Intensity

1/2. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

prof. RNDr. Petr Dobrovolný, CSc. (lecturer)
RNDr. Vladimír Herber, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

RNDr. Vladimír Herber, CSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: RNDr. Vladimír Herber, CSc.

Timetable

Tue 14:00–14:50 Z1,01001b

• Timetable of Seminar Groups:

Z7150/01: Tue 17:00–18:50 Z1,01001b, P. Dobrovolný, V. Herber

Prerequisites (in Czech)

Z7011 Geographical curriculum || NOW( Z7011 Geographical curriculum )
Předpokládá se znalost následujících disciplín: Statistické metody v geografii, Geoinformační technologie, Dálkový průzkum Země.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography and Cartography (programme PřF, N-GK)

Course objectives

This course aims to improve and develop the ICT skills and competencies of Geography teachers and to improve the quality of the material they produce for class. The course will also assist geography teachers to integrate ICT into their teaching. At the end of the course student should be able to understand basic methods used for teaching geography using IT. He/she would be able to explain when to apply individual methods and make reasoned decisions about preconditions that are necessary for proper utilization of methods in question.

Syllabus

• 1. Practical excercises elaborated according to the provided examples on selected internet databases of geographical data. 2. Use of querry languages to select desired information from the database (e.g. IRIS) 3. Thematic mapping in global scale (VISITView) focused to several geographical disciplines (climatology, hydrology, geomorphology) with the steres on the use in teaching geography. 4. Practical use of geoinformatics (GI) to examine contemporary problems in global, regional and local scale. 5. How to teach on environmental problems with the help of GI (GIS, remote sensing). 6. Geoinformatics and individual forms of learning

Literature

• WAHLA, Arnošt. Geografické, kartografické a geoinformatické vzdělávání s podporou webových zdrojů informací. Vyd. 1. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2006, 75 s. ISBN 8073681439. info
• ZOUNEK, Jiří. Využití internetu v učitelské praxi (The use of the internet in teachers practice). In Raadce učitele. Praha: Raabe, 2003, p. 1-26, 28 pp. Raadce učitele. ISBN 80-86307-04-2. info
• PARKINSON, Claire L. Earth from above :using color-coded satellite images to examine the global environment. Sausalito, Calif.: University Science Books, 1997, xiii, 175. ISBN 0-935702-41-5. info
• HAGGETT, Peter. Geography : a global synthesis. 1st pub. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2001, xxi, 833. ISBN 0582320305. info
• HARRIES, John E. Earthwatch the climate from space. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1994, 216 s. ISBN 0-13-223843-8. info

Teaching methods

Lectures explaining basic terms on ICT in geography education. During the lectures individual examples focusing on internet sources are presnted step by step. Practical training based on several exercises that are solved using recomended internnet data sources and software.

Assessment methods

Class discussion, homeworks, oral presentation, final assessment

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
  
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