• Tracks & Tracings

    Mapping

    This classroom is found of their walks. The two educators and their preschool students walk regularly, several times a week and often twice daily, throughout the neighborhood. In the classroom there is a printout of a satellite map, with a blue path weaving through, marking streets. The map is accompanied by photos of locations known to children: paths, pond, puddle, fallen tree; these fit onto the larger map. All rectangles are plastic-wrapped for longevity.  How might we move, pedagogically, past the regulatory technologies that view place from cosmo-colonial position of a satellite, condensing its depth into a layer of pixels? What materials might we invite to evoke (and to keep) the…