Active History Teacher
JULY 12, 2024
Teaching the industrial revolution inventions can be so boring! Our textbooks often put the industrial revolution inventions in multiple places and they are often just a sentence or two! Getting students to process the impact of the industrial revolution inventions in a meaningful way is always my goal. When I put this lesson together, I wanted to get kids up and moving.
TeachThought
JULY 12, 2024
How To Connect Schools And Communities Using Technology by Terry Heick It’s possible that there is no time in the history of education that our systems of educating have been so out of touch with the communities. Growing populations, shifting communities, and increasingly inwardly-focused schools all play a role. In light of the access of modern technology, social media, and new learning models that reconfigure the time and place learning happens, it doesn’t have to be that way.
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Living Geography
JULY 12, 2024
That's the title of a new book by Jack Dangermond in association with the wider GIS community. A description: The Power of Where presents the visionary concepts of Jack Dangermond, cofounder of Esri®, the world’s leading mapping software company. With a foreword by bestselling author and writer for The Atlantic, James Fallows, it’s filled with the latest web maps, illustrations, and real-life stories from a vibrant global community of geographic information systems (GIS) users.
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
JULY 12, 2024
The first interview in this series features top takeaways from the College Presidents for Civic Preparedness Faculty Institute at Rutgers University.
Living Geography
JULY 12, 2024
Several exam specifications are making a real shift towards including some alternative types of knowledge, which in some areas has real power, but tends to be ignored in favour of knowledge from a 'Western' perspective. Indigenous knowledge is particularly important in this respect. A new series on Vox is exploring these knowledge s - particularly in relation to extreme weather.
Political Science Now
JULY 12, 2024
Join the APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession for the fourth event of their 2024 virtual workshop series. Thursday, July 25, 2024 | 3:00 PM | Register Here This virtual workshop provides specific strategies for job candidates to consider when applying for a faculty position at a teaching-oriented institution. Panelists include faculty from community colleges, liberal arts colleges, and regional universities.
Living Geography
JULY 12, 2024
Up to Newcastle overnight to give the Cath White Memorial Lecture , which was a real privilege. The weather was not ideal for my usual exploration, but I managed a bit of a wander. My talk was recorded, and may be made available on the YouTube channel of the GA Tyne and Wear Branch. I spoke about some of the things that have kept me in the classroom for so long.
Living Geography
JULY 12, 2024
"All a child need know is the meaning of the common world around him [sic], the air he breathes, the water he drinks, ice, snow, rain, clouds. These facts of common life might be imparted at a very early age, and were best imparted by parents. At present parents are too ignorant to teach them, and they must be 'taught first at school. The exception above referred to is the instilling of those rudimentary facts which are to geography what the multiplication-table is to arithmetic.
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