Google Maps
Objective: Mapping locations
Web tool: Google Maps
Brief description of tool: Google Maps is a free web mapping service application and technology provided by Google that powers many map-based services including the Google Maps website. It offers street maps, a route planner, and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world.
Use of tool: Making visual connections to places and writing thank you's on those maps to blog commenters who had responded to students' blogs throughout a school year
How it facilitates learning: Using techniques that help students develop meaning from their own constructed information and experiences begins the process of assuming personal responsibility for contributing to their own learning.
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Additional strategies to use with students to facilitate learning and thinking: See a comprehensive list of Educational uses of Google Map on Google Maps Mania
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Personal Commentary: In addition, read Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World by Evan Ratliff. Students need to have practice with map making of this nature so that they can begin to view and create other maps and be a productive part of this change. We can't just leave map-making in the hands of a few. We need to facilitate this learning for our students by getting them involved and seeking their feedback to share with others. I invite you to think about this and respond!
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