With free tools like Google Earth and mapbuilder so widely available, these days it seems that everyone’s a mapmaker.
But mapping data to location in an effort to reveal previously unseen connections—now that’s a taller order.
(To introduce learners to the concept, howtosmile.org’s data mapping activities are a good place to start.)
An excellent example of the power […]
Archive for November, 2010
Mapping data to change minds: a lesson from 1854
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 5:25 pm
Written by: erinv
Maps in the Oval Office: the progress of geography education
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 6:31 pm
Written by: erinv
On November 5, 2008, a few days after Barack Obama was elected president, Daniel Edelson wrote an open letter to the man who would soon occupy the White House.
Edelson, National Geographic’s Vice President of Education, delivered an eloquent plea, asking that the new administration “take up the cause of geographic education.”
“The U.S. has done a […]
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