Human Geography in Action | DUE 9752794 |
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
DATE(S) OF WORKSHOP: |
call contact
June 15 - 19, 1998 Optional field trip on June 20 |
SITE(S): |
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ |
Introduction to Human Geography, like most freshman-level survey courses in the social sciences, is typically
taught using the traditional model of instructor as lecturer and student as note-taker. The proposed series of
one-week summer workshops engage faculty who teach introductory human geography courses in a more
student-centered model of learning using hands-on materials that challenge students to collect, manipulate,
analyze, and present geographic information.
The workshop will be organized around 13 activities from "Human Geography in Action," a recently published human geography workbook (New York, Wiley, 1997). Each freestanding activity demonstrates a basic concept in human geography including: scale, region, diffusion, spatial interaction, space-time prisms, location theory, age distribution, development, urban hierarchy, urban land use, residential segregation, nations and states, and environmental change. Seven of the activities are computerized projects on CD-ROM.
Each session participant will be expected to complete several of the activities, and brainstorm topics and methods for future activities. These workshops will serve as the basis for disseminating a more innovative approach to human geography, one in which students literally do geography as they learn geography. |
CONTACT: | Patricia Gober
or
Michael Kuby |
Arizona State University
Department of Geography Tempe, AZ 85287-0104 Phone: 602-965-7533 Fax: 602-965-8313 E-mail: pgober@asu.edu, or mikekuby@asu.edu |
Advancing the Integration of New Technologies into the
Undergraduate Teaching of Economics |
DUE 9653421 |
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
DATE(S) OF WORKSHOP: |
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May 28-30, 1998 |
SITE(S): |
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA |
Traditional methods of teaching undergraduate economics courses have been slow to change in spite of dramatic
changes in the available instructional technologies. This workshop is being organized to review recent
applications of new technologies and/or ways of overcoming institutional and other obstacles that have slowed
the pace of instructional innovations in undergraduate economic courses throughout the United States.
The projects objectives are to
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CONTACT: | Arnie Katz
Economics Department |
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Phone: 412-648-1752 Fax: 412-648-1793 E-mail: akatz+@pitt.edu |