Free cartography workshops: A formative opportunity for primary school and engineering students

Jaime Gutierrez Alfaro, DIego Munguia Molina, Ivannia Valverde Jimenez

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This paper presents a methodology for conducting educational activities to accomplish two objectives: (a) divulge the role of free technologies in society among primary school children through the implementation of free cartography workshops; (b) contribute to the integral formation of computer engineering students, specifically in the development of soft skills and social context awareness. The free cartography workshops are instructed by university students and aimed at primary school children. Concepts like local knowledge and collaborative knowledge construction, as well as basic cartography terminology are constructed through playful activities. Cartography related tasks are completed through the use of free software Open Street Maps and Field Papers. The proposed methodology is based on the systematization of a previous experience, carried out in 2016 in rural areas of the country, in the context of the celebration of the Science and Technology Month, an event organized by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Telecommunications (MICITT). The paper also describes the experience provided by using this methodology in two free cartography workshops held in communities with a lower social development index.

Idioma originalInglés
Título de la publicación alojadaProceedings - 13th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies, LACLO 2018
EditorialInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Páginas400-407
Número de páginas8
ISBN (versión digital)9781728103822
DOI
EstadoPublicada - oct 2018
Evento13th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies, LACLO 2018 - Sao Paulo, Brasil
Duración: 1 oct 20185 oct 2018

Serie de la publicación

NombreProceedings - 13th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies, LACLO 2018

Conferencia

Conferencia13th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies, LACLO 2018
País/TerritorioBrasil
CiudadSao Paulo
Período1/10/185/10/18

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