Karl Donert, President EUROGEO, Director: European Centre of Excellence: digital-earth.eu. Derby, Saturday 6 April 2013

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1 Karl Donert, President EUROGEO, Director: European Centre of Excellence: digital-earth.eu Derby, Saturday 6 April 2013

2 European Association of Geographers Legally based in Belgium International NGO established 1976 by the European Commission to network geographers A professional association for geographers, geo -scientists and related areas Developed from the HERODOT (Bologna Process) Network for higher education in Europe

3 Participatory status: the only Geo-NGO Culture, Education, Environment groups Lobbying in the European Parliament Attendance at major meetings EUROGEO Secretary General elected Vice President of Education group

4 EUROGEO 2013: Geography - linking tradition and future 8-11 May 2013 Venue: Brugge, Belgium, Sint-Lodewijkscollege Program: conference sessions keynote speakers field trip witness unique Holy Blood Procession (UNESCO) on Thursday afternoon (limited seats reserved)

5 Visit to find out more

6 European societal challenges CORINE (Coordination of Information on the Environment) project Global Monitoring for Environment and Security' (GMES) 2004 INSPIRE Directive Open governance new opportunities for citizens to interact Open data freedom of information (Neelie Kroes, 2011; 2012) Europe Education & Training 2020

7 European societal challenges CORINE (Coordination of Information on the Environment) project Global Monitoring for Environment and Security' (GMES) 2004 INSPIRE Directive Open governance new opportunities for citizens to interact Open data freedom of information (Neelie Kroes, 2011; 2012) Europe Education & Training 2020

8 Should provide political and economic decision-takers and scientists with reliable data for assessing environmental conditions across the whole of Europe UK - IT - FR Dutch government released core data sets to the public free of charge for re-use, from January 1 st 2012 NL - Finnish government opened up all its data for free re -use from May 1 st 2012 Estonia, Iceland.. soon other countries? Regions?

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12 Capacity for change: sustainable implementation and progressive scaling up (of ICT-enabled innovative learning environments) EC Joint Research Centre (2012)

13 JRC (2012) "Challenges of implementing Creative Classrooms practices, pages/eap/documents/_6_etwinning_ws1_march2012.pdf, etwinning conference, Tampere Finland

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15 Personal Learning Environments - Jeremy Hiebert (2006) collecting reflecting connecting publishing Hiebert J (2006), Personal Learning Environment, HeadsPaceJ, /02/personal-learning-environment-model.html 1 5

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17 Norman, D. A. (1998). The invisible computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

18 Visionary engineering-genius, Buckminster Fuller GeoScope Articulated in 1992 by former US VP Al Gore

19 Digital Earth is about geographic media (Gryl et al., 2010) Media with a strong spatial-temporal component What competences are needed? Spatial thinking is essential to learning about the world we live in (Golledge et al. 2008) to become spatial citizens (Vogler et al., 2012) Golledge, R., Marsh, M., and Battersby, S., A conceptual framework for facilitating geospatial thinking. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 98 (2), Gryl I, Jekel T and Donert K (2010), Spatial Citizenship, p2-12, In Jekel T, Donert K and Koller A (eds.) Learning with GeoInformation V, Berlin, Wichman Verlag Vogler R, Henning S, Jekel T and Donert K (2012), Towards a concept of Spatially-enabled learning, : In Jekel T, Car A, Strobl J and Griesbner M, (eds.) Geovisualisation, Society and Learning, Berlin, Wichman Verlag

20 Spatial Citizen (based on Strobl 2008:134) Education for Spatial Citizenship (Gryl, Jekel and Donert, 2010) Strobl, J. ( ) Geospatial Qualifications: Schools, Citizens and Professionals. Vortrag: GI-Forum 2008 (Salzburg University, Z_GIS Centre for Geoinformatics), Salzburg/Austria. Donert K, Gryl I and Jekel T (2010), GI & Spatial Citizenship, In Jekel T, Donert K, Koller A and Vogler R, Learning with GeoInformation V, Berlin, Wichman Verlag 2 0

21 Spatial Citizen (based on Strobl 2008:134) Transformative Education for Spatial Citizenship participative making a difference (Gryl, Jekel and Donert, 2010) Taking control gaining power (Facebook revolution) Strobl, J. ( ) Geospatial Qualifications: Schools, Citizens and Professionals. Vortrag: GI-Forum 2008 (Salzburg University, Z_GIS Centre for Geoinformatics), Salzburg/Austria. Donert K, Gryl I and Jekel T (2010), GI & Spatial Citizenship, In Jekel T, Donert K, Koller A and Vogler R, Learning with GeoInformation V, Berlin, Wichman Verlag 2 1

22 Spatial Citizenship Donert K, Gryl I and Jekel T (2010), GI & Spatial Citizenship, In Jekel T, Donert K, Koller A and Vogler R, Learning with GeoInformation V, Berlin, Wichman Verlag 22

23 Spatial Citizenship Donert K, Gryl I and Jekel T (2010), GI & Spatial Citizenship, In Jekel T, Donert K, Koller A and Vogler R, Learning with GeoInformation V, Berlin, Wichman Verlag 2 3

24 Spatial Citizenship Donert K, Gryl I and Jekel T (2010), GI & Spatial Citizenship, In Jekel T, Donert K, Koller A and Vogler R, Learning with GeoInformation V, Berlin, Wichman Verlag 2 4

25 Spatial Citizenship

26 Spatial Citizenship Deconstruct images, media, data and maps

27 Spatial Citizenship Deconstruct imagery, media, data and maps

28 Spatial Citizenship Deconstruct imagery, media data and maps

29 to KNOW about the construction of geo-media to RECOGNISE its construction to COMPARE the perspective of certain geo-media with external information and previous knowledge to IDENTIFY the intentionality of the use of geo -media in discourses, by reflection from multiple perspectives with the help of DECONSTRUCTION 2 9

30 to KNOW about the construction of geo-media to RECOGNISE its construction to COMPARE the perspective of certain geo-media with external information and previous knowledge to IDENTIFY the intentionality of the use of geo -media in discourses, by reflection from multiple perspectives with the help of DECONSTRUCTION 3 0

31 Spatial Citizenship Donert K, Gryl I and Jekel T (2010), GI & Spatial Citizenship, In Jekel T, Donert K, Koller A and Vogler R, Learning with GeoInformation V, Berlin, Wichman Verlag 3 1

32 to FORMULATE alternative spatial scenarios to NEGOTIATE alternative scenarios (with respect to different interests in democratic decision making processes) to COMMUNICATE alternative meanings with geomedia eg Counter Mapping and neo -geography (Harris et al, 2006) Gryl I, Jekel T Donert K (2010), GI & Spatial Citizenship, In Jekel T, Donert K and Koller A, Learning with GeoInformation V, Berlin, Wichman Verlag Harris, L., & Hazen, H. D. (2006). Power of maps:(counter) mapping for conservation. ACME: An international e-journal for critical geographies, 4(1),

33 Community action Engaging framework

34 Constructivist we all actively construct their citizenship stresses active participation and interaction Intercultural diversity in ideas, values and behaviours Built on dialogue negotiation communication - the appropriation of space empowerment to participate in the debate about the sort of future society we need to create Technological digital geo-literacy and the citizen Donert K (2008), Examining the relationship between Citizenship and Geography Education, 73-92, in Lambrinos N and Reliou M (Eds.), European Geography Education: the challenges of a new era, Arlington, W Virginia, National Council for Geographic Education

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38 Infrastructure issues: soft- hardware, Low knowledge of teachers, low confidence No time in the curriculum, curriculum too full Not in teacher training curriculum Decision makers unaware of importance No guidelines what students should be able to do (Needs Analysis, digital-earth.eu Project, 2011) Need Not 1: many support teachers for grassroots involved actors Need 2: target key decision makers politicians (EU /national), Ministries, ICT coordinators, curriculum developers, geospatial industry etc. Too few young people with the necessary awareness, skills, knowledge and experience

39 Digital-earth.eu Project outcomes so far Introduced new education concepts geographic (geo-)media spatial citizenship Becoming accepted (by researchers, educators.)

40 Digital-earth.eu Project outcomes so far Centres of Excellence definition strategic assets. to press the case for and manage complex change initiatives in a specific field sustainable entity, continue beyond funding provide leadership inform / influence decision makers develop / deliver services to stakeholders carry out education activities

41 Integrating Digital Earth in the Digital Agenda for Europe

42 Digital-earth.eu Project outcomes so far

43 Digital-earth.eu Project outcomes so far Geo-services: connecting to resources for education

44 Digital-earth.eu Project achievements so far Lobbying Parliamentarians Civil Servants Ministries of Education Council of Europe European Commission Commissioners European Environment Agency Industry

45 Live real-time maps / visualisations / crisis response User-generated content (prosumers) Volunteered geographic information Unvolunteered GI Crowdsourcing Citizen Science Internet of things

46 Volunteered Geographic information

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49 Each producer creates maps and publishes services and metadata when they want Can publish and reference own maps and services in their blog, web site, social networking Can re-use one another s available layers, including backgrounds / base maps

50 Big data Unvolunteered information Ethical issues Geo-tagged information

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52 Live Singapore traffic isochrones, raining taxis, heat island, Formula 1, real-time talk, hub of the world

53 Live Singapore Real-time visualisations of Singapore, now an exhibition showing the potential of geo-information

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68 Advanced technological landscape evolved Large organisations getting information into the hands of billions of citizens Estimated 70-80% has a spatial component (Downs and DeSouza 2006) Lives inundated with spatial information People finding many uses Flickr, Twitter, Facebook and Wikimapia Downs, R. and A. DeSouza (2006). Learning to Think Spatially. Washington D.C., National Academies Press.

69 No defined geospatial workforce USA data:

70 Huge scientific movement Technology available Exceptionally rich opportunity Not yet expressed in geography education ArcGIS Online Real-time maps digital-earth-real-time-maps2.html

71 Education for Digital Earth will help us understand our earth system A unique set of (geo-)skills needed to successfully navigate our world Convince education stakeholders Visit for more information and how to participate

72 Karl Donert @karldonert