Education

Jan 31, 2022
Michelle LeBlanc

Maptivists at the Margarita Muñiz Academy

Our education team spent the first two weeks of January teaching an intersession on critical map literacy to a small group of seniors at the Margarita Muñiz Academy.

Nov 15, 2021
Michelle LeBlanc

Indigenous People’s Heritage Month: Lessons and Resources Exploring Land and Maps

November is Indigenous People’s Heritage Month, a chance to unlearn entrenched narratives and relearn the complex history and modern presence of Native people across North America

Aug 20, 2021
Nyssa Patten

Unlearning and Relearning the Colonization of New England

A participant in our summer NEH workshop for teachers discusses the new ways she looks at maps, the erasure of Native people, and how she’ll be teaching this fall.

Before Displacement: An Urban History

Undergraduates at the College of the Holy Cross used Atlascope to research the buildings and landscapes of Boston that were destroyed by the Central Artery

Jun 17, 2021
Lynn Brown

Highlights from Maptivist student projects

High school students working with our educators explored the question of how racial ideas become spatial practice in Boston

Jun 15, 2021
Eric Robsky Huntley, Garrett Dash Nelson, and Michelle LeBlanc

Maps with Young Learners in Mind

A new grant-funded project in collaboration with faculty and students at MIT will support the development of tools to teach critical geospatial data at the pK-12 level