Google Earth is an interactive, real life, authentic digital learning tool that enables students to explore anywhere in the world. The program contains many different learning aspects such as view any place on earth, go sightseeing at places of interest, play tours, record your own tour, “fly” the route, view 3D terrain of a place, view historical imagery and draw and measure.
I believe Google Earth would be an excellent way to promote active learning in the classroom as students can visit different locations of choice and perform engaging activities that support learning. Google Earth promotes multidisciplinary teaching and learning across various key learning areas for instance; SOSE, Mathematics and English. The productive pedagogy that applies to Google Earth is supportive classroom environment; as student direction is used when exploring student learning. Connectedness; connectedness to the world also applies as the students are investigating the real world (Department of Education and Training, 2001).
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