Educational Pedagogy

People have always been fascinated with investigating their home—the Earth. To understand our planet, scholars in the ancient world in Rome, Greece, India, China, and elsewhere laid the foundations for geography and geodesy over 2,500 years ago.  Today, the geographic perspective is more relevant than ever before, as issues of climate change, economic globalization, urban sprawl, biodiversity loss, sustainable agriculture, water quality and quantity, crime, cultural diversity, energy, tourism, political instability, and natural hazards grow in importance on a global scale but also increasingly affect our everyday lives.  To grapple with these issues requires a populace that has a firm foundation in geography, who can see the “big picture” but also who understands how different patterns and trends are related from a global scale down to the local community.  The geographic perspective is concerned with all of the relevant issues of our time, because all of these issues have a geographic component.

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Free resource of educational web tools, 21st century skills, tips and tutorials on how teachers and students integrate technology into education

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"I have Flipgrid fever and its only getting worse. I just can’t stop thinking of ways to use Flipgrid in the classroom! Here is my next installment of ideas…

Flipgrid is arguably one of the best apps of all time. It has so many layers of thinking it can uncover. At first view – it is a video response platform – but it is so much more, so layered, and so effective in helping teachers capture rich information about student learning and growth.

AND IT’S FREE for all teachers. Let’s take a look…"

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Here are some good educational YouTube channels curated specifically for social studies teachers. They cover a wide variety of social studies topics  which you can appropriate and integrate in your own class. We have only included what we think are some of the most popular channels out there, if you have other suggestions to add to the list, please share with us in our social media pages.

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