How do you know what you don’t know? - Issue 54
New structure, geogaphyalltheway updates page, a book about TB, the CIE IGCSE Geography 0460 syllabus, an IB DP Geography Category 1 workshop and a recipe search engine.
I am going to try a new, shorter structure for these newsletters, getting directly to the point with near laser-guided precision.
geographyalltheway has a new updates page, powered by micro.blog, that provides a brief outline of the updates I make to the site. You can get the updates page from the menu on the left-hand side of geographyalltheway or directly here.
I did a lot of driving during the summer break. I enjoyed listening to John Green’s Everything is Tuberculosis audiobook. Download a sample chapter on your e-reader of choice and give it a try.
Do you teach the new CIE IGCSE Geography 0460 syllabus? If so, you need to book yourself on the webinar that my friend and partner in international geography crimes, Matt Podbury, is leading as part of the International Geography Training Project. Saturday 27th September, two 90-minute sessions, online, starting at 10h00 CET with the option of a follow-up meeting with either of us.
Have you just started teaching IB DP Geography? Are you about to start teaching IB DP Geography? Are you looking for an official IB face-to-face category 1 workshop? Why not join me in Berlin from October 3 to 5, 2025?
Last random share is Foodle. An excellent recipe search engine from the talented developer Silvio Rizzi, who also created Mela (which I shared many issues ago) and Reeder (the app I use to follow RSS feeds and other online announcements).
Hi Ann.
Saturday 9th May 2026 – Big things that your students need to write - has a focus on IAs (and the EE), but your concerns about the process seem very focused on a particular issue.
Any chance you could do a session or write-up regarding the IB Geo IA? I know GIS, I teach my students to use GIS and my son, a GIS data analyst in the corporate world, zooms in to teach them more. They used their own data that they collected and were heavily penalized the past May. If GIS capabilities is the cartography skills of today and the future and they have the ability to do it, we should not be penalized. So this year, we will draw maps by hand and do them on ArcView online using Field papers and open street map. Seems ridiculously repetitive and not a good use of valuable time. I am sure you have seen the commentaries on FB from other Geo teachers who have used the same free tools. I am also the DP/CP Coordinator and requested my whole cohort to be rescored. I truly believe they did not even look at them. So, any suggestions? advice? guidance? words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!! Ann Linsley