Robbie Begg

Senior Geography Teacher, Teaching & Learning - keen on all sharing all things Geography, love the outdoors.

[Robbie Begg @robbie_begg]

Donate to help me raise much-needed funds for #menshealth this #Movember – for all the dads, brothers, sons and mates in our lives. Stop men dying too young. https://t.co/SHEPJA7dbJ

[Robbie Begg @robbie_begg]

An interesting connection between civil rights & North American geology influencing the US electoral voting. #criticalthinking #spatialpatterns

[Latif Nasser @latifnasser]

The US election is tomorrow.  If you, like me, are tired of horse-race-style reporting, and need to zoom out, I wanna tell you a story. It’s about an ancient force influencing the election. And, as a bonus, it’ll give you an Easter egg to watch for as the returns come in. THREAD

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

When babies are at high risk of dying prematurely, parents respond by having lots of kids. Once medical conditions improve and infant mortality goes down parents have fewer kids. Overpopulation is solved by improving healthcare. Source: https://t.co/GLzfzzZ8KL

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

Popular on the blog this month: Revisiting Dylan Wiliam's Five Brilliant Formative Assessment Strategies. https://t.co/JWTapIlvbb

[Tina Blythe @blytheti]

Neurologically-speaking, it’s literally impossible to think deeply about things you don’t care about. -M. H. Immordino-Yang #reggioemilia

[Elaine Johnson @Elaine_EnvLaw]

“You can’t have the Great Barrier Reef and the Adani mine. It is simply a big contradiction.” Professor Hoegh-Guldberg, @IPCC_CH author

As one of the world’s largest exporters of coal, Australia is a key player in deciding the future of the Reef

https://t.co/UOeh5YHFMh

[Robbie Begg @robbie_begg]

@ploguey Is Facebook, Instagram and Netflix helping to reduce youth crime? An interesting inquiry question for students to analyse and create links between the increased accessibility of the internet, phones and social media and falling youth crime rates. https://t.co/6q0lu1SV8A

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

10 reasons lessons can be less effective than they could be: https://t.co/D5M9FpCGkv .

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

Love this ... but
See it as a cue to read the whole paper
Don’t make it a checklist
It’s not a four part lesson
Don’t laminate it for your wall unless you’ve read the actual paper.

[Robbie Begg @robbie_begg]

Investment in infrastructure by major world cities is increasongly critical to their dominance in the global network #worldcities #urbanplaces

[Onibokun Toluwanimi @ToluOnibokun]

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[David Latimer @drlatimer]

#worldcities Making the connection – first class air travel between key global cities https://t.co/cU4a4ruCJH

[Robbie Begg @robbie_begg]

The importance of modelling. Feeding forward as pre-emptive feedback. #formative #feedback #modelling https://t.co/rYNczWQ3Sz

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Relationship between educational level of women and fertility is pretty simple: educated women have smaller number of kids (data shown for #Ethiopia #Ghana #Kenya but true universally). If you are worried about overpopulation educate women... Source: https://t.co/KycJxDzpDo

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

Get assessment right and reduce workload at the same time. #HTRTSummit https://t.co/EXiCxgF8Wf ..

[Impact @ImpactWales]

Here's a lovely set of creative question types to get pupils engaging with their learning by Ged Gast

[Robbie Begg @robbie_begg]

@ICTLaurens Definitely! Sounds good. Great speaking to you about all the cool #stemshare projects you are planning!

[Yolanda @yolhyde]

Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles https://t.co/Gki1SLsNX7 #geography #waste

[Robbie Begg @robbie_begg]

Should we 'give back' half of the Earth to wildlife? #halfearth #biodiversity #geographyteacher

https://t.co/nsdTFgG7YB

[Robbie Begg @robbie_begg]

Neighbours turn on each other as Cape Town waits for its water to run out https://t.co/1P7Ay2Fqtv #waterintheworld #stage4 #waterscarcity #geographyteacher