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.
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The Mercator projection map
followed by explanations, pros and cons, such the reason why Google maps and
apple are using this project.
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The second one is the Robinson cartographic
projection, followed by its explanations.
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Comparisons Mercator Vs. Peters
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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.
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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.
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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.
