CAG 2012
There are lots of activities of interest to geography educators at this year's annual meeting of the CAG being held at Laurier/Waterloo. For more information go to the CAG 2012 website.
CAGED Business Meetings on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 in room 2E7.
Special Sessions
CAGED has organized 2 special sessions on geographic education for Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Here is what has been tentatively scheduled:
GEOGRAPHIC EDUCATION (Tuesday, 1:30-3:00, Room 5)—Special Session
Engaging First Year Geography Students through field trips – Challenges and Rewards
By Joseph Leydon & Sally Turner, University of Toronto Mississauga
“Connecting students with greenspace” – Reflections on the experience of designing and teaching field-based urban geography courses.
By Ewa Dabrowska, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Lessons on Developing and Organizing International Planning Educational Field Trips
By John Meligrana, School of Urban and Regional Planning Queen’s University
Incorporating Elements of Universal Design in Teaching Geography to Non-Geographers
By Greg Atkinson, Tarleton State University
GEOGRAPHIC LITERACY (Tuesday, 3:30-5:00, Room 5)—Special Session
Geographic Literacy: A Benchmark Study of Ontario Secondary School Students Approaching Graduation.
By Chris Charman, Huron Heights Secondary School, Kitchener
On the Road to a Geoliteracy Strategy for Canada: Capacity Building in the Canadian Council for Geographic Education (CCGE)
By Lynn Moorman, Department of Earth Sciences, Mount Royal University; Canadian Council for Geographic Education
Online teaching of remote sensing: a technical nightmare or a natural fit?
By Mryka Hall-Beyer Department of Geography University of Calgary
Geospatial learning with mobile serious games
By Yaives Ferland, Universite Laval, Margot Kaszap, Universite Laval
