[FOSS4G2016] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Education at FOSS4G 2016

Fri Oct 30 04:30:11 PDT 2015

Hi Ela,

thanks for the progress! I am in contact to several school teachers 
around Bonn, so I just may ask them, how advanced training for teachers 
in general work and where their channels of distribution are.

So far , Till

Am 2015-10-29 12:41, schrieb Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska:
> Hi all,
>
>  Thanks a lot for joining a discussion, providing feedback and
> comments, asking additional questions. I set up the wikipage to 
> gather
> all information concerning education at FOSS4G 2016
> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Education [19]).
>
>  Summing up...
>  Conference - we agree on having education included into general
> track. Great! Work in progress... :-)
>  Workshop - we have quite a lot of people open for the idea of
> educational workshop at FOSS4G 2016. However, there are some 
> important
> issues which need to be discussed.
>
>  First of all (Nikos is 100% right) - was is/are our target group(s)?
>  Looking at the different background of ICA-OsGeo Labs we have at
> least 5 different groups:
>  1) academics working with students over 19 at the universities,
>  2) school teachers, working with children aged 6-12/14 (primary
> education) - in different countries  we have different educational
> system so also different age groups
>  3) school teachers, working with young people aged 12/14-19
> (secondary education) - in different countries  we have different
> educational system so also different age groups
>  4) teacher trainers, so educators responsible for improving
> pre-service and/or in-service school teachers skills and knowledge,
>  5) GI educators responsible for improving GIS skills and knowledge 
> of
> very different groups of users (specialists, scientists, public
> administration staff, etc.)
>
>  Well... We can of course make not 1 workshop but 2 or more (if room
> is still available) but what's crucial - how to get participants for
> the training? Moreover, how to get participants for only one-day
> training?
>
>  In my opinion, we would have no problems to get people from group no
> 1. and no. 5 - they will be in Bonn :-)
>  But, as far as group no. 2, 3 and 4 are concerned, it will be much
> harder.  School teachers can be financially supported by their
> schools but for 1-day training that can be not so easy.
>  If we want this group to come - how can we support them? First of
> all, get money to cover their travel expenses. That's the most
> important. I know quite a lot of teachers from Belgium for example 
> who
> would be interested to come, if they get this kind of support. Any
> ideas on how to do it (except for Till's proposal to ask OsGeo for
> help)?
>
>  So dear ICA-OsGeo Lab members, to make a general discussion more
> concrete - please declare your IDEAS ON SPECIFIC TRAINING that YOU
> would like to lead on FOSS4G 2016 using above mentioned Wikipage. 
> That
> would help a lot!
>
>  Regards,
>  Ela
>
> W dniu 2015-10-26 o 13:15, Charlie Schweik pisze:
>
>> Sorry - my bad, Nikos. I am considering all levels but brought in
>> the university here.
>> I think we should have both areas!
>> Charlie
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 6:36 AM, <labrinos at eled.auth.gr [17]> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> To be honest, I am getting confused. One time you are talking
>>> about university education and the nest time about schools.
>>>
>>> Maybe we should decide or group our desires.
>>>
>>> Some should think about the tertiary education, some about
>>> secondary and others (like me) about primary. Should we allocate
>>> different people, as contact persons, to lead the discussion for
>>> each level of education?
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> Nikos
>>>
>>>
>>
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>>>
>>> Dr. Nikos Lambrinos
>>>
>>> Associate Professor
>>>
>>> Dept. of Primary Education
>>>
>>> Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki
>>>
>>> Greece, GR-54124
>>>
>>> Tel. +30 2310 991201
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>>> Email: labrinos at eled.auth.gr [4]
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>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> FROM: ica-osgeo-labs
>>> [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [7]] ON BEHALF OF
>>> Antoni Perez Navarro
>>> SENT: Monday, October 26, 2015 11:44 AM
>>> TO: ela at gridw.pl [8]; cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu [9]
>>> CC: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org [10]
>>> SUBJECT: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Education at FOSS4G 2016
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Hi Ela,
>>>
>>> I find the ideas absolutely wonderful. 
>>> Regarding workshop for teachers, in Como we talked also about to
>>> look for funding in order to open it to people around Europe, and
>>> not only germany. But we all agreed that it would be difficult in
>>> schools.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, in Spain we are having some debate around how
>>> difficult is to find students in GIS, although geographic
>>> information seams key. If it is a generic problem, maybe it would
>>> be interesting to prepare a round table to talk about the item.
>>> Some of us think that the term GIS is not a fashion term and
>>> maybe we should have to "fashionate" it. I don't know. 
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Toni
>>>
>>>  
>>> ANTONI PÉREZ NAVARRO 
>>> Estudis d'Informàtica, Multimèdia i Telecomunicació 
>>> UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA 
>>>  
>>> aperezn at uoc.edu [11] 
>>> 22@ (Rambla Poblenou, 156 / 08018 Barcelona) 
>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro [12]
>>> @tonipereznavarr
>>>
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  
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>>> contenir informació privilegiada o confidencial i dades de
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>>>  
>>>
>>> Abans d'imprimir aquest missatge electrònic penseu en el medi
>>> ambient.
>>>
>>> --- Missatge original de Charles Schweik
>>> <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu [13]> per a "El¿bieta
>>> Wo¿oszy¿ska-Wi¿niewska" <ela at gridw.pl [14]> amb còpia a
>>> ica-osgeo-labs <ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org [15]> enviat el
>>> 25.10.2015 13:33
>>>
>>> Hi Ela,
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> See my thoughts below in-line:
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 4:32 PM, El?bieta Wo?oszy?ska-Wi?niewska
>>> <ela at gridw.pl [16]> wrote:
>>>
>>> There are two main options:
>>>
>>> No. 1 ? CONFERENCE itself (24-26th of August)
>>>
>>> Education will be mentioned as one of the special topics in the
>>> General track. So during the general program selection a special
>>> focus will be put on education-related presentations. The idea was
>>> not to make these presentations too much research-oriented (as in
>>> acadeic track) but really practical.
>>> As Volker (chair of program committee) mentioned:"My plan is to
>>> give the slots (3 talks in a row) some kind of topic. Those would
>>> be then be ?education?.
>>> I really like this idea ? it would help to make this topic more
>>> visible and help people who are interested to find proper time and
>>> room ;-)
>>>
>>> I think this is a good idea. 
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> In Como, you'll recall there was a paper by the NCSU team about
>>> their educational material and how they made datasets generic, or
>>> perhaps people could consider presenting issues such as how they
>>> are teaching various topics like geocrowdsourcing, Volunteer
>>> geographic information, geo-sensor webs, geo-temporal
>>> visualization, modeling, or some other area. Maybe there could be
>>> a call for papers?
>>>
>>>> No. 2 ? PRE-CONFERENCE, EDUCATION WORKSHOP (23rd of August )
>>>>
>>>> We have a chance to organise pre-conference workshop! 
>>>
>>>> In Como we talked about two options: a) having workshop for
>>>> German school teachers on use of FOSS4G (e.g. QGIS) in
>>>> education, b) having workshop for teacher trainers to show them
>>>> how they can motivate and attract teachers to open GIS. 
>>>
>>> I think these are both good ideas too. 
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> One update on my end. The GeoForAll urban thematic has a grant
>>> proposal under review right now. Like all grant proposals -- It's
>>> a long shot -- but if funded it would provide funding to support a
>>> US GeoForAll scholar to go to Bonn to offer a training workshop at
>>> FOSS4G 2016. The topic would be either a 'Research Methods'
>>> workshop or a 'Train the Trainer' workshop - probably targeting
>>> university researchers and educators. I don't know when we will
>>> hear about the funding, but my guess is that it will be in early
>>> 2016, and if it comes in, we'll have a call for workshop topics.
>>> So I'll let you know if it comes in.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> I encourage others in our community to go after funds like this
>>> that would help fund/support these kinds of educational or
>>> research workshops to happen in future FOSS4G global or regional
>>> events!
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>
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> Links:
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> [1] mailto:labrinos at eled.auth.gr
> [2] http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/
> [3] http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr
> [4] mailto:labrinos at eled.auth.gr
> [5] http://labrinos.webpages.auth.gr/digital_geography/
> [6] http://www.digital-earth.edu.gr/
> [7] mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [8] mailto:ela at gridw.pl
> [9] mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
> [10] mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> [11] mailto:aperezn at uoc.edu
> [12] https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonipereznavarro
> [13] mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
> [14] mailto:ela at gridw.pl
> [15] mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> [16] mailto:ela at gridw.pl
> [17] mailto:labrinos at eled.auth.gr
> [18] http://five.sentenc.es
> [19] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Education