Teaching Geography and
Fieldwork in the Digital Age
Sepetember 2026

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Key Quotes from the session

Katie Hall on the Purpose of GIS in Schools:

"GIS or geographic information systems... are part of the national curriculum and developing skills with this digital technology empowers young people while they're still at school to make data informed decisions. And those could be about changes to their local environment or improvements for their local community."

Katie Hall on Software Accessibility:

"And just to be clear, right from the very start, everything that we're showing you here today, you have a free entitlement to through the ArcGIS for schools program."

Aaron on Building Spatial Awareness in Primary Pupils:

"I think the main thing that I sort of find with it is just giving children that sense of place, really... the ability to sort of manipulate the map and the ability to kind of really be able to explore and apply different layers to the map... has really helped."

Arron on Visualising Complex Geography Concepts:

"For kind of an abstract concept like that [contour lines], I think it's invaluable really to be able to kind of physically move it and see... what it means when the lines are close together. If you can actually move that yourself and see what it means, I think it makes a huge difference."

Arron on Pupil Engagement:

"We've got to a point now where there's a lot of children in our school who, when they've got sort of a bit of free time... lots of children are going on this, and lots of children will say to me, 'Can I go on Map Maker for ten minutes? I'll finish my work.'"

Katie Hall on the Role of Survey123:

"This I think, is where Survey123 starts to enter our conversation and where we want to support you and your students to really go beyond being consumers of data and start to become collectors, analysts, and I think most importantly, storytellers using data..."