Wow, what a weekend! The variety of sessions over the two days of the Geographical Association Annual Conference allowed for an invaluable mix of teaching and learning ideas for the classroom, subject knowledge updates, and engagement with the wider discipline of geography. I took away far more from this conference than I’ll be able to […]
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Like most geography departments across the UK, our Year 7s complete a map skills unit within months of arriving at the school. This year, we made it as engaging as possible, drawing lines of latitude and longitude drawn in chalk on the playground, bringing out OS maps of their local area, and using GIS to […]
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Top of my department’s development plan is to increase the use of GIS (Geographical Information Systems) in our curriculum. Personally, I am a strong advocate for introducing it to students at all levels – it is a tool that is being used in many exciting industries and students should be confident with using it. Google […]
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Is it surprising that in Theory of Knowledge we are drawn to an analogy between the MAPS different people have made of the world and the KNOWLEDGE they have constructed of it – with all the selection, interpretation, and representation both demand? Is it surprising that critical reading of maps needs the same recognition of […]
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