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The D3: Developing Digital Data literacy project is a project funded with support from the European Commission.

D3 – Developing Digital Data literacy relates to the need for information literacy for all citizens in Europe. Eradicating present-day problems such as the rise of populism and mis-information in all its forms and dimensions is one of the greatest challenges faced in Europe.

d3.youthmetre.eu

Take moment to explore the teacher training materials and the toolkit. Within the toolkit you will find a set of 15 'lesson blueprints' as well as a searchable dataset of useful Open Data.

The 'Open Data Tools' includes all the usuals (Gapminder, Worldmapper, Google Arts and Culture) as well as many other tools that I hadn't come across before, such as →

• Economic globe of economic complexity
• Open Data for Africa
• Atlas of European Values

The 'lesson blueprints' are there to assist teachers with the creation of lesson resources. Alongside the tools, there are practical suggestions for connecting the ideas explored with students’ own lives.

I particularly like 0110: What is Google (not) telling me? and 0111: How can we filter the ‘signal’ from the ‘noise’?. The development of meaningful digital citizenship focused resources that can be delivered by teachers of any specialism is always a challenge. I will be starting my use of the D3: Developing Digital Data literacy project resources with these. Filter bubbles, social media echo chambers, fake news, 'signal' and 'noise' are all items of vocabulary that teachers and students should be competent in using.

The plan is to try something new in 2022.

I am going to do a weekly (roughly) newsletter. On a Tuesday, something not too long, four items in total, with the hope that you find something that you didn’t know and that is useful to you.

How do you know what you don’t know? is about spreading some of the things that I am finding useful and sharing it in an easily accessible and digestible way.

The first item will be for all geographers based on bigger ideas and everyday geographies. The idea behind the second item is something that is more focused on the needs of IB DP geographers, educators and students. The item will be linked to the syllabus but other geography educators and students may find it useful too. The third section is a quick update on something I am working on. New content added to, or refreshed on geographyalltheway, something I have recently written, or am involved in. The fourth and final item will be bit more random. It will be a recommendation. Probably a bit techie, an app, an online service, or similar.

The ‘How do you know what you don’t know?’ newsletter is free, and isn’t (just) for geographyalltheway subscribers. I will try to keep the links to content behind the geographyalltheway.com paywall to an absolute minimum!

For the last 18 months or so I have been moving the resources on geographyalltheway.com to a new platform. The new platform allows the content to be more responsive to different devices as well as making it easier for me to update and monitor.

I have recently finished added all of my 14-16 MYP Individuals and Societies (MYP 3 to 5) resources to the new platform.

There are six units, all free to access, for varying ages. The Sustainable cities and Alpine environments units are the most recently developed. The Coasts unit is probably the oldest.

Now to start work on moving the Age: 11-14 resources (MYP 1-3 or Key Stage 3) to the new platform. I will post as I add each unit.

Quick post for a matrix I created, a couple of weeks ago, for a revision lesson. Started off with an 'active recall' approach of seeing what students could remember, then discussion and then onto reviewing notes.

I am trying to be more proactive about posting (telling site users) about things I have added and changed. Let's see how long this approach continues.

Today [Friday 9th April 2021] will see the 7th edition (and 2nd virtual one) of the Geographical Association Conference TeachMeet.

Follow along on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/rMW2-3f1E6A live from 18:30 [London].

Here is the line up of stories →

Comments will be used for Q&A after each talk, time permitting!

Thank you to Gemma Archer, the Head of Geography and Teacher of Environmental Systems and Societies, British International School Ho Chi Minh City for a new site testimonial.

If you feel like you would like to add a testimonial to geographyalltheway.com - please get in contact.

I rather liked this exam question breakdown approach from @JB_GeogTeacher.

After having using it successfully, for a couple of weeks, with my DP2 students I decided to produce a version for the classroom wall. Here it is if you fancy downloading it →

I have also added it to the Geography Classroom Display Material page on geographyalltheway.com.

UPDATE - source of the KFC idea → Developing AO3 Skills.

I have developed a new page to support the 'map skills' needed by IB DP Geography students. The page → 'Locate and differentiate elements of the Earth’s surface - aka Map skills' is broken down by the skills listed in the guide. The page includes exam style questions to illustrate how each of the skills may need to be applied along with some useful teaching materials.

The page is currently free to access for everybody and can be found as part of the 2019 IB DP Geography → IB DP Geography Exam preparation section of the site.

Please do get in contact via email / Twitter / LinkedIn if you have any feedback upon the infographics and the exam style questions.

Produced for a friend - probably useful for others!

I have created a new page of 'Infographic exam style questions' on geographyalltheway.com as I help my students prepare for their exams. The page is currently free to access for everybody and can be found as part of the 2019 IB DP Geography → Infographics section of the site.

I haven't produced any mark schemes - but do share if you do!

Please do get in contact via email / Twitter / LinkedIn if you have any feedback upon the infographics and the exam style questions.