technology in practice webinar series presents:
Introduction to Geocaching
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
1 pm Pacific / 2 pm Mountain / 3 pm Central / 4 pm Eastern
Alice Christie |
A pressing challenge for educators is to use technology to help students take ownership for learning and develop the practical and critical thinking skills necessary to understand the world around them. Teachers can meet this challenge by using an emerging technology tool, GPS receivers, and an emerging GPS-based activity, geocaching, to transform their classrooms from teacher-centered environments to exciting, empowering, exploratory environments that focus on student engagement in the learning process.
Join us to discover how GPS units and geocaching can be used as multidisciplinary, inquiry-driven, field-based tools useful across the curricula to instill in students a curiosity about geography, science, mathematics and the world in which they live.
Learn strategies, see examples, and experience the fun and challenge of geocaching to engage active learning.
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About the Presenter
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Dr. Alice Christie provides professional development resources and services for educators locally, nationally and internationally. Her primary focus is on using technology to enhance teaching and learning in K–12 and university settings. She shares her enthusiasm and energy, insights and ideas, and love of learning through workshops, presentations, and keynote addresses. With over forty years of experience as a K-12 and university educator, Dr. Christie is an acclaimed and highly respected teacher and presenter. She was recently recognized as one of four Arizona State University President's Professors characterized by ASU President Michael Crow as "extraordinary teachers and scholars, engaging students both in and outside the classroom, and bringing innovation to their teaching as well as to their research.”
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Webinar Pricing:
$50 ISTE Members
$125 Non-Members
$795 Season Pass (for Members Only)
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