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Jo Coles
@jlcoles.bsky.social
Wife, Mummy. Previously AHT #Geographyteacher now working freelance as an author & consultant. Interested in #primary and whether compassion still exists in #secondary.
CGeog, FRGS, Cambridge grad, OS award. Kent.Just grateful for everything. X @geodebs
Driving in the car and the 7 year old just presented me with her labelled structure of the Earth diagram…just because. Bless her.
February 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
What are your favourite ‘go to’ diagrams for teaching the structure of the Earth? Do you have favourite colours for sections?! Also which diagrams do you love to destroy?! Cc @ahamill.bsky.social @jennnnnn.bsky.social @geogmum.bsky.social @geogsteel.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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There's lots in the press today about potential of AI to the UK, including to schools & for some eg's of use of AI in the #geography classroom see #geographyteacher Lara Buchanan's blog for #GeographicalAssociation on how she uses AI in her lessons

ga-blog.org/2024/12/03/f...
Four ways to use Artificial Intelligence in the geography classroom - The GA Blog
Lara Buchanan provides four ways that artificial intelligence can be used to enhance your geography lessons...
ga-blog.org
January 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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The world has passed "peak child".

This was a term coined by the late Hans Rosling, and the most recent data suggests that the world has reached it: the number of children has stopped growing.

My data insight on @ourworldindata.org today: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
January 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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China's Fast fashion: Shein report on illegal hours, low wages and suppliers using forced labour #Shein #whomademyclothes #everystitchhasastory www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shein: Inside the Chinese factories fuelling the company's success
Workers making clothes for the fast fashion giant tell the BBC they labour for up to 75 hours a week.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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This week we start off our Spring/Summer schedule of live revision blasts for AQA A-Level Geography, kicking off with the Water Cycle with @geogmum.bsky.social and @mildthing99.bsky.social - see you at 5.30 on Wednesday!
www.tutor2u.net/live/aqa-a-l...
AQA A-Level Geography Live Revision | Water Cycle (Paper 1 - Core Topic)
Join Vicki and the team for 30 minutes of fast-paced interactive revision on the water cycle - a core topic for Paper 1 on the AQA A-Level Geography spec.
www.tutor2u.net
January 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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It's the Xmas dilemma ... whether to have a real or fake Xmas tree 🎄

& delighted to chat all things Christmas, carbon & choice of real & plastic trees (& how to best dispose of them) with @KatherineCowan @BBCSheffield

Listen in from 2.13 onwards on
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
December 10, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Ok #geographyteachers - hit me with your ‘favourite’ preferred LIDC case study for teaching GCSE development. Where do you focus on & why did you choose it? How do you avoid children picking up stereotypes & assumptions of place?
Thanks! #geography #GCSE
December 10, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Out of interest, do any #education #teachertraining organisations include content on child physiological development at different ages? Please share, I would love to connect. Cc @teachertapp.bsky.social @ruthswailes.bsky.social @suecowley.bsky.social #pgce #ECT @collegeofteaching.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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Hi Everyone! 👋🏾 I am an award winning Earth Scientist, writer & presenter. The #WhispersOfRock is my debut book abt how rocks have shaped our world & our lives. Out 4.9.25 in US & UK. Thanks for all the follows! Pre-Order links in Bio 🤗 #naturewriting #geology #geography #science #nature
November 17, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Well here I am, making the gradual move from X and hoping to just get back to a community like we used to know in the good old days 🤣☺️ Looking forward to finding all the lovely #geographyteacher #educators on here.
November 15, 2024 at 3:05 PM