PřF:Z7150 ICT in Geography Education - Course Information

Z7150 ICT in Geographical Education

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

RNDr. Vladimír Herber, CSc. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

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

Timetable of Seminar Groups

Z7150/01: Thu 8:00–9:50 Z1,01001b, V. Herber

Prerequisites (in Czech)

Z7011 Geographical curriculum || NOW( Z7011 Geographical curriculum )

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 21 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 19/21, only registered: 0/21

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Geography and Cartography (programme PřF, N-UCZ) (2)

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.

Learning outcomes

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. All tasks and teaching materials were created so that the subject can be taught both in person and in an online environment.

Syllabus

• Within the framework of the exercises the students solve IT-specific tasks in presenting the current problems at global, regional and local level: The possibilities of using IT in geographic education and also solving selected problems from the field of basic geographic disciplines . Individual exercises are created with an emphasis on self-study and individual forms of teaching.

Literature

recommended literature
• MARADA, Miroslav, Dana ŘEZNÍČKOVÁ, Martin HANUS, Tomáš MATĚJČEK, Eduard HOFMANN, Hana SVATOŇOVÁ and Petr KNECHT. Koncepce geografického vzdělávání v Česku. Certifikovaná metodika. www.egeografie.cz (Conception of geography education in Czechia. www.egeografie.cz). 2017. URL info
• MARTIN, Fred. E-geography : using ICT in quallity geography. Sheffield: Geographical Association, 2006, 160 s. ISBN 1843771705. info
• BUZAN, Tony and Barry BUZAN. Myšlenkové mapy : probuďte svou kreativitu, zlepšete svou paměť, změňte svůj život. Translated by Michal Kašpárek. 2. vyd. Brno: BizBooks, 2012, 210 s. ISBN 9788026500308. info
• ZOUNEK, Jiří and Petr SUDICKÝ. E-learning : učení (se) s online technologiemi. Vydání první. Praha: Wolters Kluwer Česká republika, 2012, xix, 226. ISBN 9788073579036. info
• WAHLA, Arnošt. Geografické, kartografické a geoinformatické vzdělávání s podporou webových zdrojů informací. Vyd. 1. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2006, 75 s. ISBN 8073681439. info

not specified
• BIDDULPH, Mary, David LAMBERT and David BALDERSTONE. Learning to teach geography in the secondary school : a companion to school experience. Third edition. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015, xi, 349. ISBN 9781138779440. info

Teaching methods

Exercises in the form of independent work on tasks solved by appropriate sources, especially internet, focused on the teaching of geography.

Assessment methods

Class discussion, homework, oral presentation, final assessment

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2023, recent)
  
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