Hello everyone,

I hope you enjoy our project at Mitchell Technical Institute. While the main portion of our project is completed we are offering a free drone checkout program, resources, and geospatial curriculum for K-12 schools. Information for the drone checkout program can be found at https://www.mitchelltech.edu/gps4k12. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you

Hi Devon,

Fantastic project. How did you recruit participants for the project? Were there eligibility criteria that the educators in your project had to meet?

Congratualtions on developing an interesting project.  I would like to learn more about how teachers actually used the geospatial tecnologies in the core curriculum in their schools.  Could you provide a couple of examples of how teachers actually implemented what they learned in the professional development in their classes to motivate their studnets to learn some STEM concept?   

Hi Devon, 

Being familiar with agriculture I knew this technology existed but didn't know what it was called. I googled  Geospatial to learn more. Would this technology work on my robotic snowplow? 

Hi Devon,

Thanks for the intriguing intro to geo-spatial tech and for making this available for K-12. It makes me wonder about computational thinking -- an emphasis in a lot of schools I work with. But they typically use "toys" like mobile robots that fit into the classroom. This is so much more "real world" -- and I could see very important to share with rural-based students. Have you thought about a curriculum or other resources that would let schools support computational thinking skills with this? Here's a quick graphic that might get the conversation rolling... https://digitalpromise.org/initiative/computational-thinking/key-concepts-of-computational-thinking/

best,

jeremy

Devon - Great project.  We've got a high school dual enrollment project in Virginia focused on GIS and GST called the Geospatial Semester (http://www.isat.jmu.edu/geospatialsemester).  Maybe we could connect teachers in our two states?  Keep up the good work.

Devon - Thanks for sharing your project.  We've got a dual enrollment effort for high school students in Virginia focused on GIS and geospatial technologies (http://www.isat.jmu.edu/geospatialsemester).  Maybe we can connect teachers in our two states?  Keep up the good work.

This would make a great senior project, if only part of accountability.  I just shared this with the CIO in my school district whose son is a friend of my grandson, as they need a challenge to motivate going beyond the minimum requirements.  Looking for a teacher in Houston, TX who participating, as would love a Drone to monitor the trees as dealing with a local problem:  https://knorth.edublogs.org/science/trees/  - When I was teaching computer science in Houston ISD in 2000 I tried to get a GIS program that a local university created going, alas the administration did not think it was worth doing. Now there are exponentially growing tools that can help and maybe now schools will require integrated PBL.  Thanks for doing this.

A great workshop.  Seems every school district should have this program.  Thanks for sharing. Plans to scale up? 

Do you have a write-up/resource for the feedback you get after the 4Day PD and their subsequent integration of the program into classrooms? Plans for collecting student data?  

How are the curricular lessons generated? Any particular pedagogical framework(s)?