How to approach the Teaching Excellence Framework with confidence
"There is no magic bullet for teaching excellence, but there are some things you can do to polish your practice ..."Luis Cesar Nunes's insight:Teaching excellenceSee it on Scoop.it, via Webgeo
View ArticleHow Google is changing the way we think
"Google, the humble search engine, has grown a lot over the years ..."See it on Scoop.it, via Webgeo
View ArticleSee where women outnumber men around the world (and why)
"A new study maps the population gaps between men and women around the world."See it on Scoop.it, via Webgeo
View ArticleGeography just keeps getting more popular – so what's the subject's secret?
As geography teachers return to school they will see their subject continuing to expand at all stages of education. For the fifth year running, GCSE entries have risen. At A-level, geography had the...
View ArticleThe true size of ...
This site is used to highlight the distortion issues caused by the Mercator map projection. It can be used to show the true size of countriesHow it Works1. Enter a country or state name2. Hover over...
View ArticleTourists Vs Locals: Cities Based On Where People Take Photos
"Tourists and locals experience cities in strikingly different ways. To see just how different these two worlds are, have a look at the map of Washington D.C. above based on where people take photos....
View ArticleMap Projection Transitions
"In some ways, all 2D maps of Earth are interrupted at some point, even if it’s just along the antimeridian at 180°. Interruptions are often in areas of less interest e.g. oceans for a land-focused...
View ArticlePaper maps still relevant even with computers, GPS
"The president and owner of Mapping Specialists, David Knipfer, said maps are more prevalent in society now than they’ve ever been, from turn-by-turn direction apps, to restaurant searches, to social...
View ArticleThe Global Refugee Crisis, Region by Region
In the latest crisis, tens of thousands are racing to Hungary before a border fence is finished.Luis Cesar Nunes's insight:refugeeSee it on Scoop.it, via Webgeo
View ArticleMount McKinley officially renamed Denali
To hear the White House describe Alaska, the state has become the canary in the climate change coal mine, complete with raging wildfires, accelerating ice melt in the arctic, vanishing glaciers and...
View ArticleHuman activities are reshaping Earth's surface
"By moving the slider, the user can compare 1990 false-color Landsat views (left) with recent true-color imagery (right). Humans are increasingly transforming Earth’s surface—through direct activities...
View ArticleThe Geographically Uneven Coverage of Wikipedia
This map points out the highly uneven spatial distribution of (geotagged) Wikipedia articles in 44 language versions of the encyclopaedia. Slightly more than half of the global total of 3,336,473...
View ArticleCanada's secret plan to invade the U.S. (and vice versa)
After World War I, Canada drew up classified plans to invade the U.S. Meanwhile, the U.S. had its own secret plot to create the "United States of North America."Luis Cesar Nunes's insight:hoax?See it...
View ArticleChanges in Mortality: 1900 to 2010
"The New England Journal of Medicine looks at death reports in 200 years of back issues. The first thing to notice here is how much our mortality rate has dropped over the course of a century, largely...
View ArticleUsing 'Geography Education'
"This story map was created with ArcGIS Online to guide users on how to get the most out of the Geography Education websites on Wordpress and Scoop.it."Luis Cesar Nunes's insight:'Geography...
View ArticleTeaching about Syrian Refugees
The Syrian Civil War that stemmed out of the Arab Spring in 2012 morphed into a conflict unlike any of the other Arab Spring protests. In the years before the Arab Spring, Syria experienced an...
View ArticleIs education technology losing its humanity? - EdSurge
"I’ve been involved in educational technology since the late 1990′s when I was at Red River College and involved in deploying the first laptop program in Canada ..."See it on Scoop.it, via Webgeo
View ArticleWhat is your social media age? Take our test. | Technology | The Guardian
"Do you know your LOLZ from your ROFLs, your number of followers and are you fluent in the language of emojis? Michael Hogan asks ten multiple choice questions to see how up-to-date you really are...
View ArticleLearners as critical thinkers
"Critical thinking can be defined in various ways. Dr. Richard Paul briefly explains critical thinking as: “thinking about your thinking while you’re thinking in order to make your thinking...
View ArticleFacebook ‘likes’ mean a computer knows you better than your mother
"Who knows your family, friends and loved ones better than you? A computer might, it turns out, if it studied those people’s Facebook "likes" ..."©See it on Scoop.it, via Webgeo
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