{"data":{"ID":163,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1349368821,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"A look at how Google Earth can foster empathy and broaden students' world view","Handle":"How_Google_Earth_fosters_empathy_and_broadens_students-world_view","ShortDescription":"You've seen Google Earth, and maybe even used it yourself; but have your students used it to develop empathy with world events they study? Together, we will learn how to make Google Earth place marks that students (and teachers) can use to make multi-disciplinary connections about the world.","Description":"This presentation will make the case that everyone should be using Google Earth as a sort of digital journal. You can easily make place marks that record (and reflect upon) the people and places we learn about in the world.\r\n\r\nI started making Google Earth place marks four years ago. When I read a news article or have an interesting conversation with a person from a place I'm not familiar with, I make a place mark.\r\n\r\nI now have more than 1,200 place marks. This practice has made me more empathetic and more globally aware. \r\n\r\nFor example, I had an \"aha\" moment when I looked up where Paul Ryan was from in Wisconsin (Janesville) and learned that his home town is located less than 60 miles from the Sikh temple shooting just outside Milwaukee in August 2012.\r\n\r\nImagine having middle school students make place marks for 10 stories a week.  Multiple that by 30+ weeks per year for three years, and students would enter high school with a journal of more than 1,000 place marks.  More importantly, the practice of reading the news on a daily basis would provide them with a global context that will serve them extremely well in high school and beyond. For more details, see http:\/\/wiltoday.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/10\/typical-morning-at-tlc\/","Link":["http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LAx7vcOF9jM","https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1U7JdOI8XZ7GNqHiH108D7t9dwPd_Z8NU0vNK2QV-8PY\/edit"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School"],"Practice":"After a brief demonstration of how to make Google Earth place marks, each participant will create at least two Google Earth place marks, each of which could be used to tell your students a story when you get back from EduCon.\r\n\r\n\r\n(see the website below for a 6-minute video showing Google Earth in action)\r\n\r\n\r\nGoogle Earth is a great storytelling tool, and after we each learn to make a few place marks, we will each share one of our place marks -- and the story that goes with the place mark -- in small groups.\r\n\r\n\r\nWe will spend the remainder of our time together thinking about applications for Google Earth at *your* school. The expectation is that the conversation will continue as we find and share new applications in our various schools throughout 2013. We will record the start of the conversation in a shared Google Doc, and we can share further insights about how to learn with Google Earth using the #GElearn hashtag.\r\n\r\n\r\n(the second website link below will take you to the shared Google Doc)","Presenter":["Steve Goldberg"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Triangle Learning Community middle school in Durham","NC"],"PresenterEmail":["Steve@Trianglearning.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":9,"ScheduleLocationID":2,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2}}