ETBI Journal of Education - Vol 2:1 - June 2020 (Sustainable Development Goals 2015 -2030)

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ETBI Journal of Education June 2020 dimensions including the development of citizen science events as well as an augmented reality app. The project is based in Maynooth University (MU). Project leader Dr Conor Cahalane from the Geography Department (MU) is working in association with colleagues from the Education Department (MU), the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at Technological University (TU) Dublin, the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) Ireland, Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI) and the Society of Chartered Surveyors of Ireland (SCSI). The first phase of the project will interest teachers in ETB Schools across the country. We will be organising a series of professional development workshops for teachers and creating a panel of GeoMentors that schools can link in with to tap into the incredible satellite imagery and other forms of GIS data and avail of the scientific expertise to interpret it and understand how it is applied. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS The 5*S team of geographers, scientists, chartered surveyors, teacher educators and other expert partners will collaborate to create teacher professional development materials for schools. These workshops will be available for teachers from August 2020 to help tailor content to the curriculum. In them, interested teachers will learn how space data, particularly the Copernicus satellite imagery, can be accessed and used to help address the SDGs. Links to learning outcomes of the Junior Cycle curriculum will also be explored. For example in Geography satellite data would sit well within both ‘Exploring-’ and ‘Interacting with Physical World’. In JC Science the ‘Nature of Science’ and ‘Earth and Space’ strands offer interesting THE 5*S TEAM OF GEOGRAPHERS, SCIENTISTS, CHARTERED SURVEYORS, TEACHER EDUCATORS AND OTHER EXPERT PARTNERS WILL COLLABORATE TO CREATE TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MATERIALS FOR SCHOOLS. potential within all the learning outcomes for those strands. Further crossovers in Physical and Biological Worlds are also clear. Teachers of other subjects such as CSPE as well as Leaving Certificate Physics, Agricultural Science, Business Studies, Politics and Society and even History all include potential for the use of satellite data to inform classroom discussions and build interest in the environment around us. NATIONWIDE REACH OF THE PROJECT 5*S builds on two existing national schoolbased programmes that teachers may already be familiar with. A collaboration between Esri Ireland’s award winning, ‘ArcGIS for Schools’ programme and the SCSI ‘Day in the Life’ recruitment programme offers the opportunity to combine a national network of volunteers with an existing data/training infrastructure in Irish schools. Esri Ireland provided half a billion Euro of free software and data to schools across Ireland in 2018 and this software infrastructure is what enables the 5*S project to be carried out across the whole country. PAGE 10
ETBI Journal of Education June 2020 The first 5*S GeoMentor cohort – Aideen Croasdell from Esri Ireland introduces the GeoMentor programme to Eimear McNerney and her 4 th Year BSc Geographic Science students from TU Dublin. Furthermore Ordnance Survey Ireland, another 5*S partner started work in 2012 in their role on the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Committee of Experts to develop Global Fundamental Geospatial Data Themes. By now, through their work with the Central Statistics Office, OSI has developed GeoHive.ie which is a datahub for tracking Ireland’s progress to meeting the SDGS and enabling evidence-based decision-making for citizens, business and policy makers. GeoHive is one of the tools that the GeoMentors in the 5*S project can show and illustrate how to link it to curricular content and to ask interesting questions about access to services and resources in Ireland and therefore probing questions of equality for different communities in Ireland. The partnership also includes student teachers in Maynooth University who will have a role in co-creating lesson ideas tailored for different age-groups and who work in schools across the country. LINKING WITH A 5*S GEOMENTOR Teachers can also avail of the expert input directly to their classrooms of the scientists and surveyors who use satellite imagery for their daily practice. In the school-based element of the 5*S project chartered surveyors and other scientists will be trained as “GeoMentors” and will make themselves available to show how school students and teachers can access and interpret satellite data. PAGE 11
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