Michael Warren Bio

Michael J Warren teaches Language Arts and Geospatial Technology at Central Middle School of Science in Anchorage, Alaska. As a teacher consultant for the University of Alaska Geography Program (UAGP), he participates in many cutting-edge K-12 initiatives: GoogleEarth Teacher Institute, National Geographic's Giant Map of Asia, MapTEACH, the AT&T Alascom GeoPortal, GSA's EarthCache Teacher Program, and GIS workshops with partner ESRI. Michael is a recent graduate of ESRI's Teachers Teaching Teachers GIS program (T3G).

Michael recently won the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Teacher of the Year Award (2010), the Milken National Educator Award (2007), and British Petroleum's Teacher of Excellence (2006). Michael and his students created the Geocaching Journeys program for the Anchorage Convention and Visitor's Bureau as part of Landmark, a semester long course at Central Middle School of Science where students investigate Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS).

Michael enjoys working to help teachers make Geospatial Technologies a part of their everyday classroom life through hands on PD events and courses.

The 2011-2012 school year will be his 11th year of teaching.

Michael, his wife Tara, sons Nolan and Wyatt, and daughter Eden enjoy traveling around the United States together.

Existing Curriculum/Resources to Consider

Let's share existing curriculum and/or resources that will help us to not reinvent any wheels and possibly serve as models for future resource development.

I mentioned the NASA Eyes in the Sky II Project:
http://serc.carleton.edu/eyesinthesky2/
Fantastic integration of geospatial inquiry with remote sensing and GPS tracks of migrating turtles among many other things!

Katie and AK Folks, we'd love to see links for MapTEACH and other great AK programs mentioned on calls.

Maggie, you mentioned Volcanoes Alive and Aurora Alive, I believe.

There may also be a tie in with MEDB's Island Energy Inquiry Curriculum which I recently led: http://www.islandenergyinquiry.org


Please add resources here via Comments or New Post. As a New Post, be sure and add the Curriculum and Resource Labels. Thanks!!

Essential Questions Brainstorm

Please share any/all essential questions that you think we ought to consider as guides for our collaboration. We can organize and refine as we go. Perhaps numbering them will facilitate our conversations/comments.

1. How can service learning projects that integrate the use of geospatial technology help students have an impact on their local communities?

2. How can students engaged in these projects in Hawaii and Alaska engage in authentic collaborations that will ultimately impact the larger Pacific and, possibly, global community?

3. How can we, as facilitators of this collaboration, effectively develop curriculum, protocols, platforms, and teacher professional development opportunities that will result in a highly successful and sustainable program?

4. How can a Hawaii Alaska collaboration in education authentically celebrate and engage in an alignment of Western Science, Traditional Knowledge, and citizen empowerment?

Please add more questions here via a Comment! And continue numbering! The more the better! Thanks.

TPACK

Technology Pedagogy and Content Knowledge Framework (TPACK)

http://www.tpck.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_Pedagogical_Content_Knowledge