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Students need to know human geography; they need to understand the relationships that exist between cultures. Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks 
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Your kid has no idea where Saudi Arabia – or maybe even South Carolina – is. Here's why.
Heather Durden's curator insight,
January 10, 2017 5:34 PM
The article talks about how in the US there are more students who are not well in geography. Moreover at least only 48% are in the basic geography portion while 25% are in the low basic, 24% are proficient, and 3% are professional.In 1994, there was 4% in the efficient level as well. this relates to geography because it tells you how the United states is not so advanced with learning geography. this article represents how the economy is today teachers who do social studies do not really talk as much when it comes to geography. therefore, it is proven to be true according to figure 3. all in all, the article does give good information but could have added a little more. 
Kassie Geiger's curator insight,
January 10, 2017 9:35 PM
This relates to World Culture Geography because this article is about how past, present, and upcoming generations are bad at geography. I like this particular article because the author talks about a lack of teacher preparation and professional development in the subject, poor quality of geography instructional materials, and limited use of geographic technology in the classroom. I'd like to address a few more reasons, due to technological advances and accessibility, many people Google things they don't know or understand. Yes, this has its advantages but as a young adult in this ever-changing world, a majority of the population is glued to electronic devices. Furthermore, students only learn things or study to pass a test or class, this is sometimes referred to as short-term learning. This happens quite often especially in high school students like myself and fellow peers. This can be caused by many things, dead lines, busy schedules, etc. Plus many schools don't require a geography course.
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Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman, the Map Men, tap into a rich vein of geographical quirks to teach through comedy Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
Jeremy Hansen's curator insight,
August 29, 2016 12:43 PM
Holy heck these guys are good! I'd like to see more of these Map Men videos. I'm sure at least some of my 8th graders can appreciate some British wit.
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I will once again preach to the choir, but with the hope that this will arm you with resources to use in discussions with administrators and colleagues in the fight against geographic ignorance. This article by Walter McDougall (2003 by Orbis) is worth reviewing and is a good reading assignment to start the school year. The link is to a PDF version of the article. Via Scarpaci Human Geography
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"Stratfor explains Jordan's geographic challenge: governing its diverse population and managing its limited natural resources." For more of these videos, visit http://arcg.is/1IeK3dT Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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Stratfor produced a new video in their "Geographic Challenge" series. I've updated my map which spatially indexes 70+ of their videos that are especially relevant to geography teachers. These videos are great starting points for students that are researching a particular country.
Tags: video, geography education,geopolitics, political.
Emma Boyle's curator insight,
March 2, 2016 12:24 PM
Stratfor produced a new video in their "Geographic Challenge" series. I've updated my map which spatially indexes 70+ of their videos that are especially relevant to geography teachers. These videos are great starting points for students that are researching a particular country.
Tags: video, geography education,geopolitics, political. 
Stacey Schmuhl's curator insight,
March 3, 2016 10:47 AM
Stratfor produced a new video in their "Geographic Challenge" series. I've updated my map which spatially indexes 70+ of their videos that are especially relevant to geography teachers. These videos are great starting points for students that are researching a particular country.
Tags: video, geography education,geopolitics, political.
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The perfect gift for adventurers young and old - this book is a whirlwind exploration of world cultures! Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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"A new study maps the population gaps between men and women around the world."
Laura Lee Smith's comment,
September 7, 2015 7:19 PM
This is actually something I discussed a while back with a friend of mine who is from Russia, how there is such a huge lack of marriageable men that women there consider being a mail order bride a good alternative to spinsterhood.
Laura Lee Smith's comment,
September 7, 2015 7:19 PM
This is actually something I discussed a while back with a friend of mine who is from Russia, how there is such a huge lack of marriageable men that women there consider being a mail order bride a good alternative to spinsterhood.
Cohen Adkins's curator insight,
September 8, 2015 4:59 PM
Its amazing how well balanced some countries are with the ratio of men to women how ever some of the 3rd world countries are off balance but not to an extreme.
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One reason why geography has languished in the curricula of many American schools is that so few people understand the nature of the discipline or its relevance to our everyday lives. What is geography? What is its unique perspective? What do geographers do? Why is geography important? Why should we teach (and learn) geography in the schools? These are questions that have gone largely unanswered in American education. This brief essay presents an easily taught, understood, and remembered definition of geography.
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This poster nicely summarizes this classic essay on what geography is and what geographers do...it's a perfect article for student to read. Tags: education, K12, geography education.
Flaviu Fesnic's curator insight,
August 6, 2015 2:57 AM
This poster nicely summarizes this classic essay on what geography is and what geographers do...it's a perfect article for student to read.
Tags: education, K12, geography education. 
Dustin Fowler's curator insight,
August 7, 2015 10:55 AM
This poster nicely summarizes this classic essay on what geography is and what geographers do...it's a perfect article for student to read.
Tags: education, K12, geography education. 
Yolanta Krawiecki's curator insight,
August 7, 2015 5:29 PM
This poster nicely summarizes this classic essay on what geography is and what geographers do...it's a perfect article for student to read.
Tags: education, K12, geography education.
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"It’s a good time to reflect on what truly inspires us. What gives us, as individuals, our own sense of independence? And how can we apply that sense of joyful independence to help us engage more actively and participate more readily in the world—to make it a better place, even? Cultivating a better geographical and cultural appreciation for the world, in the next generation as well as in our own, is a pretty good place to start."
Tags: education, K12, geography education, perspective, worldwide. Via CT Blake
Flo Cuadra Scrofft's curator insight,
March 21, 2015 9:38 PM
This presentation talks about the misconceptions of geography and about what it really involves. Geographers describe and try to explain how locations interact and relate to one another; are arranged the way they are; and have become what they are now. They also use critical thinking to project what the world might look like in the future. As there's usually so many questions that have to be answered, geography is an interdisciplinary work, meaning that it is a blend of natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Geographers also develop other skills, such as mapping and graphing (spatial representation skills) and development of verbal concepts, frameworks and mathematical models (spatial theorizing skills). Geography, therefore, can be used to study many issues, such as climate change, sustainability, human rights, among others. Reflection- as the presentation accurately shows, many people believe that geography is just about memorizing countries and our world's natural resources locations, but in reality, geography goes much deeper than that. Geography is about asking questions and trying to come out with the best answers in order to solve issues that can range from local usage of land to international security. 
Gregory Stewart's curator insight,
August 29, 2015 9:37 AM
Prezi created by students interested in the field of geography. 
Alex Smiga's curator insight,
September 7, 2015 4:26 PM
Seth Dixon's insight:
This Prezi was created by students from theSyracuse Geography Department as part of a Senior Seminar to explain the disciple, the major and its utility. This is a great recap of the discipline, the major and it's utility.
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Jake McCormick's phone is unusually silent. October should be a busy time for the safari specialist scheduling holiday getaways, but because of Ebola - almost no one is booking a trip to Africa.
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"Lets start off the new school year in style! This is a re-imagining of an older resource designed to introduce the subject to new students in a highly visual manner. Feel free to use & share it." Via dilaycock
Sally Egan's curator insight,
November 3, 2014 6:10 PM
This is a great introduction to the subject of Geography. Covering both the content, Fieldwork and investigation and teh tools and skills of the subject.
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If you suffer from gephyrophobia (fear of bridges), click away now. From bridges so frightening that people will pay someone else to drive their car across to bridges that are just plain dangerous, these 10 bridges are the world's scariest.... Via chris tobin, Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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"The [importance of this study is that it] examines the dynamic between geography and area studies through their distinct understandings of space. As I argue, the dominance of the regional concept in geography, which took the multiple ways of bounding space as its central problematic, was reduced in area studies rendering of global space. This study assesses the transformation of geography during the two decades before and after the Second World War. This era was one of contrasts. On the one hand, geography was central to the war effort and in the creation of post-war programs, most notably area studies. On the other, this era also marked the relative marginalization of geography as a discipline in higher education."
Tags: education, geography, geography education, geopolitics, historical.
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A new survey finds that even college-educated Americans have a lot to learn about the world around them. Take our quizzes to see how much you know. Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
Lee Hancock's curator insight,
November 1, 2016 5:44 PM
Are you smarter than a well educated young American? Take the quiz to see.
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"Pisa tests, an international standard for comparing education systems around the world, could include a new measurement of global skills in the next round of tests in 2018. The OECD, which runs the tests in maths, reading and science, is considering adding another test which would look at how well pupils can navigate an increasingly diverse world, with an awareness of different cultures and beliefs. The OECD's education director Andreas Schleicher explains why there is such a need for new rankings to show young people's competence in a world where globalisation is a powerful economic, political and cultural force. Education leaders around the world are increasingly talking about the need to teach 'global competences' as a way of addressing the challenges of globalisation."
Euneos's curator insight,
June 2, 2016 1:23 AM
Kansainvälistyminen nousee uudeksi mitattavaksi asiaksi PISA-tutkimuksissa 2018. Miten mahtaa suomalaisten peruskoulujen käydä? Pystyvätkö ne globaalitaidoissa ja kulttuurienvälisessa osaamisessa yltämään samalle tasolle kuin kansainvälistymisessä pitkälle edistyneet Britannia, Hollanti, Belgia tai Tanska. Oma kokemukseni jo 10 vuotta jatkuneesta Intia-yhteistyöstä (http://www.eumind.net) ei ennakoi Suomen kouluille huipputuloksia. Mutta toivotaan parasta.
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Some experts argue overemphasis on reading and math tests is to blame for narrowing of content curriculum, reducing motivation to learn and breadth of knowledge. Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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The U.S. government report on 8th grade geography is not a 'pick-me-up' but a sobering reminder of the task that lays before us. This article quotes a few alliance coordinators on the current situation and how to change it.
Tags: education, K12, geography education.
Rianne Tolsma's curator insight,
March 9, 2016 2:41 AM
The U.S. government report on 8th grade geography is not a 'pick-me-up' but a sobering reminder of the task that lays before us. This article quotes a few alliance coordinators on the current situation and how to change it.
Tags: education, K12, geography education. 
Dewayne Goad's curator insight,
March 9, 2016 9:38 AM
The U.S. government report on 8th grade geography is not a 'pick-me-up' but a sobering reminder of the task that lays before us. This article quotes a few alliance coordinators on the current situation and how to change it.
Tags: education, K12, geography education. 
Denise Klaves Stewardson's curator insight,
March 21, 2016 3:08 PM
The U.S. government report on 8th grade geography is not a 'pick-me-up' but a sobering reminder of the task that lays before us. This article quotes a few alliance coordinators on the current situation and how to change it.
Tags: education, K12, geography education.
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While many skills have become obsolete in the digital age, map reading remains an important tool for building children's spatial reasoning skills and helping them make sense of our world.
Skuuppilehdet's insight:
Young people need to develop a mental map of their environs and an over-reliance on GPS/mapping apps are no substitute. When these youth become drivers, they are unprepared to make spatially/navigational decisions because they lack map reading skills. They might think that their apps can do all the work and that an old fashioned paper map is outdated technology, but their spatial thinking skills become atrophied. Spatial skills are crucial for understanding the world as a global citizen, to understand your local environs and for making scientific discoveries. So teach a kid how to read a map...the sooner the better.
Tags: education, K12, geography education, spatial, mapping.
Dewayne Goad's curator insight,
March 9, 2016 9:40 AM
Young people need to develop a mental map of their environs and an over-reliance on GPS/mapping apps are no substitute. When these youth become drivers, they are unprepared to make spatially/navigational decisions because they lack map reading skills. They might think that their apps can do all the work and that an old fashioned paper map is outdated technology, but their spatial thinking skills become atrophied. Spatial skills are crucial for understanding the world as a global citizen, to understand your local environs and for making scientific discoveries. So teach a kid how to read a map...the sooner the better.
Tags: education, K12, geography education, spatial, mapping. 
ApocalypseSurvival's curator insight,
March 11, 2016 9:13 AM
Young people need to develop a mental map of their environs and an over-reliance on GPS/mapping apps are no substitute. When these youth become drivers, they are unprepared to make spatially/navigational decisions because they lack map reading skills. They might think that their apps can do all the work and that an old fashioned paper map is outdated technology, but their spatial thinking skills become atrophied. Spatial skills are crucial for understanding the world as a global citizen, to understand your local environs and for making scientific discoveries. So teach a kid how to read a map...the sooner the better.
Tags: education, K12, geography education, spatial, mapping.
ApocalypseSurvival's curator insight,
March 11, 2016 9:15 AM
Young people need to develop a mental map of their environs and an over-reliance on GPS/mapping apps are no substitute. When these youth become drivers, they are unprepared to make spatially/navigational decisions because they lack map reading skills. They might think that their apps can do all the work and that an old fashioned paper map is outdated technology, but their spatial thinking skills become atrophied. Spatial skills are crucial for understanding the world as a global citizen, to understand your local environs and for making scientific discoveries. So teach a kid how to read a map...the sooner the better.
Tags: education, K12, geography education, spatial, mapping.
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"This story map was created with ArcGIS Online to guide users on how to get the most out of the Geography Education websites on Wordpress and Scoop.it." Via Michael Miller
Ruth Reynolds's curator insight,
December 3, 2016 9:33 PM
Just getting familiar with ArcGis and lots of ideas picked up at #ncss16
Olivia Campanella's curator insight,
September 5, 2018 4:09 PM
This map is a very helpful, useful and fun guide on how to get the most of this website and to learn about geography and different places and facts of the world.
Dominic Mappas's curator insight,
June 5, 2019 6:41 AM
This source allows its viewers to select countries to direct them to a series of topic links. This allows the audience to interact and explore the world through visual representation of the globe. I can see this being implemented for warm up activities, quizzes and practice questions. Great source!
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This website serves as an off-campus host for text, images, data and other web-based resources associated with the free eText, Introduction to Human Geography: A Disciplinary Approach.
Leoncio Lopez-Ocon's curator insight,
August 13, 2015 8:52 AM
Gracias a Seth Dixon accedo a este texto de acceso libre que es una interesante Introducción a la Geografía Humana. De fácil navegación se puede acceder a valiosa información textual, a imágenes, datos y otros recursos. Es un producto de Steven Graves, profesor de geografía en California State University, Northridge.
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Ask any teenager for directions and he can pull up Google Maps quicker than you can recite an address. Pretty awesome, right? And I’ll be the first to admit that having a map in my phone that not only tells me where to turn but how long it will take me to get there is pretty amazing. I use it all the time, honestly. But even when I’m zoning out and listening to that soothing voice telling me where to turn, I have a mental picture in my head of her directions. And I never realized that my teenage daughter doesn’t have a map in her head, because she’s never really had to use one. Ever. Tags: education, K12, geography education, spatial, mapping.
Cade Johns's curator insight,
August 16, 2015 9:26 PM
I think maps on your phone is great but what about if you get lost and you don't have service on your phone then what are you gonna do?Most young people have never had to read an actual map so most likely they won't be able to find their way back to civilization. CJ 
Ethan Conner's curator insight,
August 17, 2015 8:56 AM
Many people cannot read maps because of technolagy. This new form of maps are keeping children from the traditional way. Also keeping them from education. 
Aaron Burnette's curator insight,
August 26, 2015 9:50 AM
Although cell phone and technology is helpful, other people still believe in the prideful way. Reading paper maps.
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Inequality isn't just about money. It's also about information. The lack of reliable data about developing countries makes things like development work and disaster relief much harder.
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magnus sandberg's curator insight,
November 24, 2014 9:07 AM
I would perhaps replace some of these four points with others. But that is not the most important, as any steps taken will raise awarness, and that is what we want. 
rodrick rajive lal's curator insight,
November 25, 2014 3:52 AM
Well, I guess we have come across incidents of Phishing and Spam e-mails? Most of these are scams that are set to draw out some money from you. Some might ask for your bank account details.
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Jamie Strickland's curator insight,
September 9, 2014 2:28 PM
Yet another resource to add to my "this is why we take map quizzes" lecture at the beginning of the semester!! 
Scott Langston's curator insight,
September 18, 2014 8:05 PM
I like the 'not that hard, though' tag.
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"Geography. It lets you study the world. No, really, THE WORLD. Think about that. What other subject deals with rocks? Moving continents? AND climate? Diffusion of plants and animals? Water quality? Now, what if you add some human systems--do the other sciences let you relate the earth to economic or political systems? And culture--food, religion, music, housing, or language? How about urban systems and settlement forms? Past, present, and future, anywhere in the world? And how many subject areas let you look at something from a scientific, social-scientific, humanistic, AND artistic perspective? Yeah, I said artistic--I like to illustrate my findings with a nice map.
Emily Bian's curator insight,
October 3, 2014 5:20 PM
This scoop caught my eye because of all the cartoons and memes. Some of them are pretty funny geography puns, and I'm sure other people will enjoy this. There is world and human geography, and I have already learned world geography. World Geography has already helped me learn a lot about the world around me. Before, I was very illiterate in maps, but now I'm pretty decent. I can't wait to learn more in human geography! 1) geography as a field of inquiry It's a FB page of geography and it basically spreads the topic of geography, which is increasing in awareness. I think everybody should learn world geo and human geo is a good elective to take. 
Colleen Blankenship's curator insight,
March 28, 8:51 PM
Studying geography, especially AP Human Geography means studying everything! Look to see all the components as they reveal themselves as we study!
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This is one more example of me preaching to the choir, but I hope that this will arm you with resources to use in discussions with administrators and colleagues in the fight against geographic ignorance. This is a great article to put into my new tag of article that discuss why geography matters.
Tags: education, K12, geography education, geography matters.