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An excellent infographic that highlights the importance of education in the process of fighting poverty. Why is education (especially women) so pivotal for development? Should this change how we think about humanitarian aid?
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The results of India’s once-in-a-decade census reveal a country of 1.2 billion people where millions have access to the latest technology, but millions more lack sanitation and drinking water.
More Indians are entering the middle class as personal wealth is transforming South Asia’s economy in the private sector. Yet the government’s ability to provide public services to match that growth still lags behind. Why would it be that it is easier to get a cell phone than a toilet in India? What will that mean for development?
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Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. Sir Harold Evans, the author of They Made America, describes how frustration drove…
The economies of scale that globalization depends on, relies on logistics and transportation networks that can handle this high-volume. In a word, the container, as mundane as it may seem, facilitated the era within which we live today.
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“I want to contrast this ‘on demand’ learning from typical classroom learning…below are three examples of how an educator might include ‘on demand’ learning within a geography or GIS course.”
In this article (from a excellent geography/GIS education blog), the three main ways to use on-demand learning are: 1) Project-based work 2) Flipped Classroom and 3) Creating a Learning Resource. All three are designed to use technology within the classroom (with geographic content especially).
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Amazing animated infographic look at various world statistics in Oceania vs. Europe vs. America vs. Africa vs. Asia, from population to homicides to number of billionaires – a fine example of how to…
The video doesn’t have captions to denote which continent is which, otherwise this is an excellent data visualization of global and regional differences, using the theme of the Olympics as it’s symbolic motif.
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As mentioned by the cartographers of this London map, maps have a way of highlighting the social inequalities especially at the neighborhood scale in the urban environment. Each ward (census tract is colored according to child poverty rates, and the numbers represent life expectany rates in the neighborhood near each underground stop.
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URBAN EARTH is a project to (re)present our habitat by walking across some of the largest urban areas on Earth. This video was shot by SUSO* and introduces t…
This is the introductory video to the Urban Earth youtube channel. The goal of this “guerrilla geography” is to see and understand the city beyond the tourism guidebook. Daniel Raven-Ellison, the creator of the project is one of National Geographic’s “Emerging Explorers” and in this video, demonstrates the methods behind his urban explorations. You can see his influence in helping found http://www.missionexplore.net/ as a portal for alternative geographies to engage students. For more about his projects, see http://ravenellison.com/ for more details.
Since I did my research in Mexico City, I’m partial to this Urban Earth video of that amazing city…I loved the feel of being in the city that this video creates.
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If geospatial technology helped us understand the costs, would we make different decisions about the value of electric reliability?
This is an excellent article that shows this as an important moment for geography. Geospatial technologies have been official listed as a growth sector in the economy: where will the workforce gain these skills? This is the perfect time to put geographic analysis together more firmly into the curriculum with the STEM disciplines so that spatial thinking throughout the curriculum. Geospatial technologies such as GIS are a are a common space where geography and STEM discipline can meet.
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