#AppventCalendar Day Eleven – Google Earth: Voyager
Welcome to Day Eleven of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! I’ve been a huge fan of Google Earth for a very long time. There are so […]
Twinkl in Action: Facts as a foundation
Year 9 Geography. The assessment task involves looking at the impact of tourism in Kenya. Some of my EAL learners are quite new to English, […]
What We Can Learn During Geography Awareness Week
Building a robust and useful understanding of the world around us involves understanding people, both as individuals and as groups, topics we uncover through social […]
Teaching at Every Level with Data-Rich Digital Maps
If you’ve read my previous posts here on TechNotes, you may be able to guess that I’m a big fan of maps. Not only is […]
Waste not, learn not
The history of place is the storyline of power. Karl Marx did not get everything right, but he came pretty close. The bi-polarity of […]
Lockdown Luggage-labels 3 & 4: Barcelona to Bangkok
B is for Barcelona, and what is more redolent of exotic Barcelona than the architecture of Gaudi? This ‘light well’ in the centre of the […]
The Big List of Remote Learning Social Studies Resources
Earlier this week, we took a look a several places educators can find engaging STEM and STEAM resources designed for remote learning. In this post, […]
Rural development in practice
It is comparatively rare that the cover of a book so adequately describes not just the contents inside those covers, but also manages to capture […]
Quantum landscapes
After posting a couple of blog articles recently, https://idruhi.wordpress.com/2020/04/08/where-and-what-is-here/ and later https://idruhi.wordpress.com/2020/05/21/development-place/ that talked about “the other landscape” and how places can be imbued with […]
The digital polymath
So, here is an idea. I have written in other places about the benefits of using online communications for education, so I will not rehash […]
FLVS Hosts 3rd Annual Geography Bee
This January, ten students from the FLVS Flex Geo Bee Club participated in the 3rd annual school competition of the National Geographic GeoBee. August Speisman […]
Research in brief: reading disruption of a textbook
The research Winter, C. (2018). Disrupting colonial discourses in the geography curriculum during the introduction of British Values policy in schools. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 50(4), 456-475. […]
