GIS Ed Weekly: An Ethics Teachable Moment

Resources for Teaching and Learning

Visual Capitalist: Visualizing the True Size of Land Masses from Largest to Smallest - The sizes are nice but honestly, seeing the detailed shapes is pretty amazing, too! Check out Mali! Here's the graphic for download.

Education Dive: There's more to geography than just 50 states and their capitals - NatGeo, NCGE and a California teacher of the year address the value of and hope for geography's future in K-12.

GIS Education Weekly: FOSS4G Teachable Moments

Resources for Teaching and Learning

Fake image of a September 3rd, 2019,
fire in Central Park, New York City

Medium: It’s a faaaake… — Or not? - Pierre Markuse discusses how to identify fake imagery in the media. Via SE Sieber.

Bloomberg: Apple Maps Gives Crimea to Russia, Gets Angry Ukrainian Reaction - "Ukraine’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Vadym Prystaiko accused Apple Inc. of insensitivity for having some versions of its Maps application depict the Crimean peninsula as being part of Russia." Via Dave Murray.

GIS Education Weekly: Teaching and Learning Resources from Canada and New Zealand

Resources for Teaching and Learning

From: Indigenous Place Names in Canada

Canada: Stories from the Land: Indigenous Place Names in Canada - A story map. There's a bay with a name that means "lots of swans, all the time." How can that not make you smile?

Sun Sentinel: He thought he snagged a villa for $9,100. He got a foot-wide strip of land - "Holness said that property appraiser pictures linked to the auction site showed the villa as being the parcel he was bidding on." Via Brent Jones. A story that suggests that the buyer beware when it comes to buying property based on photos rather than detailed survey data.

GIS Education Weekly: Spatial Skills Booster Course Raises STEM Scores

Programs, Degrees, and Courses

Advanced Webinar: Land Cover Classification with Satellite Imagery is a free, two session course from NASA that illustrates using QGIS for imagery. It's two Tuesdays, for four hours each starting January 31. Those who complete the required activities will receive a certificate of completion. ht/ Philip Davis.

I noted the Power of Data Project, a professional development offering for U.S. secondary school educators last week (under Geo for All news). Directions Magazine has an article on it this week.

Supergeo will release a series of online tutorials and courses in January. Via press release.

Geo for All News

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GIS Education Weekly: How to Determine the Center of North America and How Police Learn the Geography of Cities

Resources and Articles of Interest

Reddit/r/GIS: PSA: Codecademy is not for learning how to program - The difference between learning how to program and learning how to think like a programmer.

From Tim O'Reilly: The urgency of digital transformation and 5 tips on how to do it right - I met Tim O'Reilly some years ago; he's smart and seems to see and understand things before the rest of us.

XYHt: 40 under 40 2017: Remarkable Geospatial Professionals - This is the second year the magazine has published such a list; it's drawn from reader nominations and its staff's interactions with those in the field. There are two paragraph bios of these "young people" identified as "leaders." My suggestion to make the list more valuable: Ask each one to contribute a piece of advice for aspiring geospatial professionals.