GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION

Via Scoop.it – Geography Education

PBS will premiere the episode “Food Machine” on April 11th, 2012.  Check local listings, since this should be a great feature for an agricultural/rural land use unit. 

“Over the past century, an American industrial revolution has given rise to the biggest, most productive food machine the world has ever known.

In this episode, host Yul Kwon explores how this machine feeds nearly 300 million Americans every day. He discovers engineering marvels we’ve created by putting nature to work and takes a look at the costs of our insatiable appetite on our health and environment.  For the first time in human history, less than 2% of the population can feed the other 98%.” 

Via www.pbs.org

Via Scoop.it – Geography Education

We all know that geography is important; but what can you do with it? As students across the country prepare for the 2012 National Geographic Bee, we’ve expl…

This is essentially a commerical for Google Earth, but don’t let that overshadow the overriding message of the essential nature of geography in education and the usefulness of geographic and spatial analysis on the job market. 

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What is devolution and how has it changed how Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are governed?

This article with videos, charts and images was designed as a primer for UK voters for the 2010 election to understand who devolution in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland were reshaping the political landscape in the United Kingdom.  It is general enough that even though it is outdated as a news story, it serves as a concrete example from geography students to understand the processes and reasons for a decentralization of political power.

Via news.bbc.co.uk

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Amber Hill EDU10713 Curriculum, Assessment & New Media Emerging Pedagogies…

This student-produced video (from Southern Cross University in Australia) has many good insights…especially the tagline “we need to prepare our students for the future, not the past.” While all new technologies do not improve on tried and true practices, some are worth putting into our classes as the resources become available to us. Also this video outlines numerous resources and how they can be used in the classroom. Who says we can’t learn from students?

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nat geo programme about the coke factory and the manufacturing process of coke…

Where is Coca Cola produced?  Some products are bulk losing some are bulk gaining in the manufacturing process.  Coca Cola and their containers represent bulk gaining products.  Although not the focus of this video, what is the geography behind where these factories are located?  How would this geographic pattern change if this were are bulk losing industry?  What are examples of bulk gaining and bulk losing industries?

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Syrians by the thousands are fleeing the violence in their home country and seeking refuge in neighboring countries.

Demographics and Politics: This photo essay is a varied glimpse into the refugee camps that have emerged from the Syrian uprisings against the Assad regime.  How are politics and migration connected?  Can you think of other examples where we see similar patterns? 

Via www.boston.com

Via Scoop.it – Geography Education

Venice, by virtue of its geographic situation will always be sinking as a course of nature.  A research team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the UCSD has recently concluded that Venice is sinking 2 millimeters per year…not catastrophic on a single year basis, but threatens the long-term viability and sustainability of the location.

Urban ecology: what economic forces created the rationale for building Venice?  What environmental factors are threatening it?  Will economic or environmental forces will out?  For additional information on this story see: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-venice-hasnt.html

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Via Scoop.it – Regional Geography

If you are looking for a deeper look into curating, it can be found. I want to build a curation tool, so I am working my way though my backlog of pinboard links about curation. Here I have a list of all the tools I can find that would be considered curation tools.  Curating, blogging and critiquing can be excellent forms of student projects. 

Curating Tools (My personal favorites):

 Storify : http://storify.com/

 Scoop It : http://www.scoop.it/

Blogging Tools (My personal favorites):

Blogger: http://www.blogger.com

WordPress: http://www.wordpress.com

Tumblr: http://www.tumblr.com

Posterous: http://www.posterous.com

 Additional Curating Tools:

Stellar : http://stellar.io/

Bundlr : http://gobundlr.com/

Curated By : http://www.curated.by/

Thoora : http://thoora.com/

Postpost : http://postpo.st/

Snipi : http://www.snipi.com/

trap!t : http://trap.it/

scrible : http://www.scrible.com/

faveous : http://www.faveous.com/

memonic : http://www.memonic.com/home

Bag The Web : http://bagtheweb.com/

And more at Rumproarious : http://goo.gl/TxQSn

Via www.rumproarious.com