Innovation for Education, Spatial Thinking and GeoICT: A Rwandan Case Study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Tomaszewski ◽  
Anthony Vodacek ◽  
Gaspard Rwanyiziri
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Thinking

How Motion Shapes Thought in Cinema

Projections ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-47
Author(s):  
Maarten Coëgnarts
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Spatial Thinking ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Fixed Frame ◽  
Eric Rohmer ◽  
Dynamic Patterns ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
Film Style

This article provides an embodied study of the film style of the French filmmaker Éric Rohmer. Drawing on insights from cognitive linguistics, I first show how dynamic patterns of containment shape human thinking about relationships, a concept central to Rohmer’s cinema. Second, I consider the question of how film might elicit this spatial thinking through the use of such cinematic devices as mobile framing and fixed-frame movement. Third, using Rohmer’s Comedies and Proverbs series as a case study, I demonstrate how the filmmaker applies these devices—and with them the spatial thinking they initiate—systemically to shape the relationships of his films visually. Lastly, I use the results of this analysis to provide discussion and suggestions for future research.

scholarly journals Digital (Urban) Geography: Student-led research methodology training using smartphone apps

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Holloway ◽  
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Raymond O'Connor ◽  
Denis Linehan ◽  
Therese Kenna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Styles ◽  
Spatial Thinking ◽  
First Year ◽  
Smartphone Apps ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Essay Writing ◽  
Widespread Interest

In the last decade, opportunities have emerged to deploy new digital technologies to research agendas and research-led teaching at third level. For instance, research methods such as surveys and questionnaires are shifting into the digital environment, while at the same time there is increasing evidence to support the view that people who have grown up with technology have acquired distinctive new ways of learning, and that traditional methodologies fail to maximise student engagement (Lafuente 2018). Thompson (2013) suggests that these ‘new learners’ are constantly using technology, multi-tasking in interactive environments, and collaborating online, yet research shows that many students are unaware of the potential of their smartphone to support learning (Woodcock et al, 2012). Despite a widespread interest in mobile devices facilitating teaching and learning in third-level education geography departments (Welsh et al. 2013), many research techniques are still taught using traditional ‘pen-and-paper’ methodologies. The ESRI Collector for ArcGIS is a mobile application (app) that can be used with iOS, Android, and Windows smartphones. Collector for ArcGIS is beginning to emerge as a technology to support spatial thinking in geography at second-level education and third-level education (Pánek and Glass 2018). Here we report on our strategy of integrating mobile technology in GG1015 Applied Geography, a large (250+) class introducing first year BA Arts Geography programme students to a number of techniques that we use in Geography. This module sits between GG1013 Environmental Geography and GG1014 Society and Space in the first-year programme. Both of these modules are a block of 24 1-hour lectures, with multiple choice quizzes (MCQs) and essay-based exams. Subsequently, GG1015 was developed to compliment these modules and introduce different teaching styles that facilitate learning across a range of diversities. Throughout this module, students engage directly in fieldwork, photographic activities, essay writing, presentations, and small group work. As such, this module offers an excellent case study to explore new techniques to engage students in learning, particularly in geographic research.

scholarly journals The Spatial and Temporal Properties of eLearning: an Exploratory Study Regarding the Students’ Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 369-376
Author(s):  
Mihai Caramihai ◽  
Irina Severin
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Spatial Thinking ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Temporal Properties ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
System Acceptance ◽  
Effective Use

AbstractThe paper aims to analyze and comment the current eLearning environments considering the space and time characteristics in order to better understanding of certain antecedents’ factors for eLearning system acceptance and effective use by students. The current paper illustrated the eLearning platforms – from the differences between online and traditional face to face learning to the spatial thinking and learning process – using as a case study the minds of students from a technical University of Romania.

scholarly journals Seeing Weather Through Chaos: A Case Study of Disembedding Skills in Undergraduate Meteorology Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (6) ◽  
pp. 997-1010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy McNeal ◽  
Heather Petcovic ◽  
Teresa Bals-Elsholz ◽  
Todd Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Spatial Thinking ◽  
Pressure Gradients ◽  
Instructional Interventions ◽  
Thinking Skill ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Cyclonic Flow ◽  
Verbal Data

AbstractDisembedding, or recognizing patterns in a distracting background, is a spatial thinking skill that is particularly relevant to the interpretation of meteorological surface and upper-air maps. Difficulty “seeing” patterns such as cyclonic flow, thermal ridges, or pressure gradients can make weather analysis challenging for students. In this qualitative case study, we characterize how three undergraduate meteorology students with varying disembedding skill complete a series of meteorological tasks. Videos and transcribed verbal data collected during the task, as well as participant products, were analyzed for instances of disembedding and rule-based reasoning. Results demonstrate that the student with greater disembedding skill relied on observing patterns embedded in meteorological maps in conjunction with rule-based reasoning, whereas the two students with lower disembedding skill preferred generalized application of rules. These results can aid meteorology instructors in recognizing students who struggle with disembedding data and patterns and inform the development of instructional interventions in undergraduate meteorology classrooms.

Spatial Thinking in Search Methodology: A Case Study of the ‘No Body Murder Enquiry’, West of Ireland

2008 ◽  
pp. 285-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer McKinley ◽  
Alastair Ruffell ◽  
Mark Harrison ◽  
Wolfram Meier-Augenstein ◽  
Helen Kemp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Thinking ◽  
West Of Ireland

scholarly journals Oka Day as an institution of power: kingship, chieftaincy and the community day in contemporary Yorubaland

Africa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 790-809
Author(s):  
Allen Hai Xiao ◽  
Sunday Abraham Ogunode
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Spatial Thinking ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Social Clubs ◽  
History Narratives

AbstractThis article provides a case study of a Nigerian community day celebration as a constellation of power dynamics in which kingship, chieftaincy and local politics are intertwined. Complementing the interpretations of the community day as a festival and a community development initiative, this research approaches Oka Day as an institution of powers that is invoked by the king but also incorporates chiefs, social groups, invited guests from beyond Oka and local audiences. Indebted to geographies of powers, we take nuanced power practices seriously, illustrated as twisted spatialities of powers embodied in architecture, rituals and oral history narratives. The new framing of powers makes two contributions to the existing interpretations of chieftaincy in Africa: it sheds light on chiefs’ subtle and strategic practices in response to the ‘powers of reach’ exercised by the king and through the organizational institution of Oka Day; and it also demonstrates how actors beyond the locality, including politicians, social clubs and diasporic groups, are drawn into the institution of Oka Day while mediating the powers of reach. Drawing from an analysis of spatialities of powers, we suggest that a spatial thinking facilitates our understandings of the ‘microphysics’ of kingship and chieftaincy in contemporary Yorubaland.

scholarly journals Analyzing Newspaper Maps for Earthquake News through Cartographic Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pınar Sarın ◽  
Necla Uluğtekin
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Information ◽  
Spatial Thinking ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Geographic Knowledge

This study focuses on newspaper maps, which have an important role in conveying spatial information to newspaper readers. Maps and map-like items in the main Turkish newspapers within a certain period were evaluated in regard to the scope of the study. A database was constructed to organize the collected data and conduct the analysis. In addition to cartographic and thematic analyses, the database allows “georeferencing” to be conducted as well. However, the current study focused on the cartographic and thematic properties of these maps. Their deficiencies were identified from a cartographic perspective and with that, the parts of newspapers that maps are mostly included in were investigated, and we aimed to identify the topics and events that increase map usage in newspapers. For this purpose, maps of earthquake-related news were evaluated as a case study to show some spatial and thematic determinations. Thus, the contribution of newspapers to spatial thinking abilities and geographic knowledge of the readers was evaluated by cartographers. The study proves the importance of cartography in spreading knowledge through maps in newspapers. This opens up new possibilities for future studies to develop a different cartographic perspective on map usage and improve the geographic knowledge of newspaper readers.

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