Delighted and grateful that Secondary Geography in Action is now published and on sale with @hachettelearning.bsky.social as part of @teacherhead.bsky.social's "In Action" series. www.hachettelearning.com/geography/se...

Anyone have any views on or experiences of the age verification process on here? I guess it's inevitable now, but should I be concerned about the storage of my personal data?

GCSE Fieldwork day! It may have been a bit rainy, but the spirits of my Y11s were anything but dampened! Great to get out exploring geography in the real world!

#HowIUsedGISToday Prep for GCSE fieldwork on Monday meant using the Chromebooks to allow the pupils to explore the area we'll be visiting to familiarise themselves with the geology. Embedding GIS as the norm involves little moments like this when I choose GIS over paper.

Seagull Island at the Giant's Causeway, with some gorgeous painterly light.

The glorious Lacada Point at the Giant's Causeway. It's quite the scramble to get here, but the views are always worth it!

This is the aurora you've been looking for. Star Wars Day aurora around 23.35 on May 4 2025, beating both the twilight and the bright moonlight.

🌳 Explore meaningful local climate action through the #Geography curriculum, like mapping trees in Lurgan, championed by @ahamill.bsky.social, in our special #CoffeeGeogPod episode from #GAConf25. WATCH: youtu.be/PMwo_b3E8nU #ClimateAmbassadors #GeographyTeacher

Coffee & Geography 5x15 Climate Action at the Geog Association Annual Conference 2025 #GAConf25

A special on-location episode recorded at Oxford Brookes University for the Geographical Association Annual Conference 2025 (https://geography.org.uk/events-cpd/ga-annual-conference-and-exhibition/). Part of our season-long special focusing on #ClimateAmbassadors, Kit Marie explores the multitude of

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Excellent day yesterday on 6th form fieldwork around Belfast. We started collecting river data along the Colin River. It was great to see the pupils enjoying geography in the real world on the warmest day of the year so far!

As I continue to write my book, Teacher Hacks: Geography, I'm drafting something on the role of Big Ideas in creating geographical meaning, exploring the metaphor that knowledge had a topography. Thoughts and feedback welcome!

Check out my video showing how Tectoglob3D can help you take fieldtrips to the mantle. This is the presentation I made as part of the @gasigict.bsky.social session at the GA Conference this week. docs.google.com/videos/d/1kL...

I was delighted to be able to share the story of my Climate Change Citizen Science project as part of @geogramblings.com's #GAConf25 session. It's a powerful story of agency in action, inspiring hope. Here's the video youtu.be/tTWvYb4tJlA?...

A whole new volcanic hazard map for the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland has been published by the Icelandic Met Office (Veðurstofa Íslands). Find out more about the redesign at en.vedur.is/about-imo/ne...

And...geology matters to public health. Support science. It helps us all🧪 Volcanic ash is a silent killer, more so than lava: What Alaska needs to know with Mount Spurr likely to erupt theconversation.com/volcanic-ash...

Volcanic ash is a silent killer, more so than lava: What Alaska needs to know with Mount Spurr likely to erupt

When volcanoes like Alaska’s Mount Spurr erupt, the ash can damage people’s lungs, smother crops and kill animals, and the harm can continue to spread long afterward.

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Thrilled to have been awarded the GA Teaching Geography Journal Award for the second year running! This is for my second article on plate tectonics, Taking Fieldtrips to the Mantle. This award is voted for by my geography colleagues, so I'm happy the articles are proving helpful.

'GIS: the key to understanding our interconnected world – seven ideas' (at least seven!) 15.30-16.20 Wed 16 April Chakrabarti room #GAConf25 @geographicalassoc.bsky.social #GIS #geospatial sched.co/1snE4

Not long now to @doctorpreece.bsky.social & my presentation at the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social Conference where we'll discuss how to support ECTs & non-specialist teachers of geography in developing geographical meaning through the content they are teaching.

Moonlit aurora at the Giant's Causeway last weekend. I love the detail in the stones picked out by the moonlight.

A delightful moonlit aurora display from last weekend, at the glorious Wishing Arch near Portrush.

I loved meeting up with the folks from the Google Educators Group NI last week to hatch future plans for GEG NI. They are such an inspiring group of educators to chat with. I always leave fired up and enthused.

I enjoyed recording a bespoke CPD video for the Two Counties Trust, East Midlands of a knowledge update on Tectonics. I tailored the content to their specific training needs. If any other school/MAT in England would like to explore such training from me, please get in touch.

Excellent day at the launch of the Ulster University report into the c2k Microsoft Copilot Proof of Concept presented by Sammy Taggart. 86 teachers & school leaders from every school sector in NI spent last term trialling out Copilot GenAI in our schools, logging 629 use cases to inform this report.

Powerful outcomes from my 6th Form AI Pupil Pilot, exploring together how AI can be used to help them revise more effectively. More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...

It was excellent to be in Dublin last Thursday for the Esri Ireland Customer Success Awards. Ive loved partnering with the Esri Ireland guys in our various Shared Ed GIS adventures. And it was great to hatch plans for some future adventures!

Looking forward to presenting with David Preece at the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social Conference next week about our books for geography teachers on how we can support ECTs & non-specialists in teaching geographical meaning not just content. More details here: gaconf25.sched.com/event/1snGX/...

An excellent update on today's eruption at the Reykjanes Peninsula from lavashowiceland.

This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.

Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it

The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted

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Good notes are notes that are: -Formatted for spaced retrieval practice -Condensing large amounts of information -Building understanding -Recording and monitoring understanding #EduSky www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/3/28

Notetaking Formats — The Learning Scientists

One of the most common metaphors to describe what the first few years of medical school is like is that it is like drinking water from a fire hose. There is an overwhelming amount of information that ...

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A question for #geographyteacher to ponder. Given how many folks from the UK travel to places where earthquakes may strike, should we teach "drop, cover, hold on" when teaching earthquakes? The tourist videos from Bangkok show lots of Brits uncertain as to what to do. youtu.be/6ufYXJBIhuY?...

Should we be teaching our UK pupils about earthquake drop, cover and hold on drills?

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ArcGIS map for teaching about the Myanmar Earthquake with your classes this week. #Geographyteacher @stevebracegeog.bsky.social lurgancollege.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...