Curator farmer Cultivating by Feli Travieso

Taking the role of the curator farmer was challenging, because new ways of learning scares a bit the first time you have to face with a new tool.

However, I have found the task rather easy and enjoyable, because as I have explained in the previous class when we were exposing, even though nowadays we live in a world where innovation and creativity are the keys to become successful, we should not forget that is imperative not only to domain these characteristics, but also the perception and how we interpret what we see, hear, feel smell…

In order to become good teachers in the future, persuasion plays a fundamental role. For this reason, when I started to create the pearl tree, not only did I match all the information collected, but also I have tried to organize and implement it in a way that can be appealing to viewers in order to provide them with new ideas of how being a good professional.

The ideas are ordered and divided by historical areas, so that introduces you to the principles of cartographic maps driving viewers through the history through images and links.

·      The Mercator projection map followed by explanations, pros and cons, such the reason why Google maps and apple are using this project.

·       The second one is the Robinson cartographic projection, followed by its explanations.

·      Comparisons Mercator Vs. Peters

·      Azimuthal would be the following one, same pattern that Mercator and Robinson is followed here.

·     A Map projection of the earth together with an explanation enlightening people about the imperfections of all projections. Here we are going to study the extension differences in Bolivia and Germany through Mercator’s projection.

·      The technics that a good teacher can use to make the subject appealing to students through a wide variety of tools. A example is the treasure hunt and having in mind that first day school can be difficult to face for most student, the treasure map web we downloaded can help to dwindle children insecurity, fears or lacking of interaction with fellows.

·      The following one has nothing and everything to do with learning, even though these maps are not the ones used in schools, it would not be a bad idea to have them as learning alternatives, where children can be acquainted through a creative map, with relevant information such as the places with more population or places where there are most prone to the storms. That section was introduced with an interesting video that will encourage people to be curious about how a map can be used to achieve diverse objectives.

Well I should say that searching the proper way to classify all the topics has helped me to realize that If I were a primary education teacher, I would use not only the Mercator map, Robinson or Azimuthal, what I would definitely implement is the interaction between the three during the path of primary education learning for the following reasons.

6 Year old children, cognitively see the world in a simpler way, they do not think abstractly. That is why I personally would start with the Mercator the first year, being the most inaccurate one will be at the same time the easiest way to learn for children, because they will gradually gain a good knowledge in this area, so the simplicity of the Mercator would be more appropriate, and to enricher their knowledge I would also combine this map with creative maps that could help children to associate in a funny way countries with any topic, such the creative and educative maps that I added in the pearl tree .Once children get the basics, It would be advisable to continue with Robinson, which is more accurate that the Mercator, finally at the age of more or less 10 I would propose them the challenge of a more abstract view as is the Azimuthal map that is the most accurate of the three.

I have made the experiment with my 5 years old daughter. Her father was born in Germany and currently working in Phuket, she easily finds the location of these places with a Mercator after being told just once where the places were. However she could not find the destinations in an Azimuthal map, she explained me that everything seemed the same for her.

I enclose the pearltrees link; I truly hope that it can be useful for our future students.
http://www.pearltrees.com/#/N-s=1_10666591&N-f=1_10666591&N-p=103823315&N-u=1_1817489&N-fa=10666591