Selecting Photographs From Web Sources For Online Learning Activities. Working With Representations

The research starts from the finding that primary school teachers have difficulties in choosing photographs for online learning activities. In order to investigate these difficulties and their causes, as a primary school teacher, the first author conducted an internet search and chose five photographs for several topics in the field of geography (rural settlements, urban settlements, landforms, running waters, lakes and others). For comparison, another contributor of our research group, with expertise in the didactics of geography research field, chose another suite of photographs. As a result, both similarities and differences were identified based on this comparison. During the discussions with the two researchers, we identified the reasons for choosing the photographs (the considered criteria) and the difficulties. At the end of the research, we spotted several causes that determined the inappropriate choice of photographs for a certain topic.