[FOSS4G2016] Education at FOSS4G 2016

[Suchith Anand]

Thanks Ela for leading this. I am now forwarding this to foss4g2016 planning mailling list as suggested by Jeff, so we can discuss ideas to get wider inputs and move this forward.

All - please do let us know your ideas/suggestions on the key points that Ela mentioned.

Till - i understand that you will be at FOSS4G Seoul, so please do also attend the Geo4All BOF , so we can discuss this. Thanks.

Suchith
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From: Jeff McKenna [jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 10:11 PM
To: Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
Cc: till.adams; suchith.anand; cschweik
Subject: Re: Education at FOSS4G 2016

Hi Ela, all of the 2016 planning is done through their mailing list, can
you re-send your message there, to the whole team?  thanks :)
http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2016

-jeff



On 2015-09-13 1:28 AM, Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska wrote:
> Dear Till,
>
> My name is Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska. I’m a GI practitioner and educator, part
> of the GeoForAll community, leading the ICA-OsGeo Lab in UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre
> (Warsaw, Poland).
>
> I’m writing in relation to upcoming FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn. At FOSS4G Europe 2015
> in Como GeoForAll community members had a chance to meet and discuss some
> important and urgent topics related to education with FOSS4G. As the result of
> our talks, some ideas came on how to make geoeducators (and educational
> activities in general) more ‘visible’ during the next FOSS4G event. So I was
> asked to share and discuss these ideas with you. We thought about two main
> possibilities:
>
> 1) dedicated session(s)
> In Como there were few oral presentations made by educators and they were
> included in different thematic sessions. So we thought about having separate
> educational session(s) at FOSS4G 2015. Within GeoForAll community there are
> people working with professionals, students but also with teachers and pupils at
> schools (so the youth aged 6-18), etc. So to gather them all could be a great
> opportunity to show different perspectives on geoeducation, share amazing
> experience they have and discuss challenges they face in everyday work.
>
> Concerning organizational issues, we see education as one of the dedicated
> topics within a General Track. By putting it into General Track (and not
> Academic one) we would like to attract not only academics who deal with students
> at the universities, but also non-formal educators (from NGOs, business sector,
> public administration, individuals), teacher trainers or even school teachers
> themselves.
>
> And separate track could be too much for the beginning :-)
>
> 2) workshop for teacher trainers
> Some of the ICA-OsGeo Labs representatives put our attention on a need to
> organize a workshop for teacher trainers. General idea is to exchange experience
> on how FOSS4G can be implemented in a school education (so with pupils aged
> 6-18) - how to convince teachers to use it in a classroom, what are specific
> examples, etc.
>
> I would be grateful for your comments on these two ideas. Is it possible to
> think about dedicated session and workshop? How should we proceed further to put
> them officially into an agenda?
> If you need any more information, please let me know. We can also have a Skype
> meeting if more convenient.
>
> I’m ccing Suchith Anand (leader of the GeoForAll initiative) and Charlie Schweik
> (Chair of the OSGeo Education and Curriculum committee). Hope they both who
> would be able to add some more comments on our ideas.
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> Ela
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Elżbieta Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska
> Head of Education Unit
>
> UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre
> Sobieszynska 8, 00-764 Warsaw
> phone.: +48 22 840 6664 ext. 116
> fax: +48 22 851 6201
> http://www.gridw.pl
>
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