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ahamill.bsky.social
• Geog HoD • SLT (T&L) • Shared Ed • GIS enthusiast • Plate Tectonics Geek • Mainstage presenter Esri UC '19 • GA Excellence in Geog Leadership 24' • Edtech50 UK '21 Award • RGS OS Award '22 • PQH • ResearchED presenter • Author • Landscape Photographer •
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Two days left to vote for @The_GA Journal Awards! I'm delighted that my tectonics article (using seismic tomography to take fieldtrips to the mantle) is in the final three. I would appreciate a vote from any GA member who found it helpful. Vote here: geography.org.uk/journals-res...

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Pupils from the Shared Ed class met with Grace from Google as part of their involvement in the Black Leadership Group project. They'll be exploring anti-racism & inclusion from a 21st Century NI context, using AI enabled Google Vids to help tell their stories.

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For me, it's all about pattern spotting. Amidst the chaos of the columns at the Giant's Causeway, there are shapes waiting to be aligned in a photograph. Combine that with glorious, dramatic light, and you get magic moments like this.

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One of my favourite photos I've taken of the Giant's Causeway, taken one year ago. This visitor came to the top of the stones and threw his arms spontaneously up into the air in sheer glee. I was glad I was there to capture the moment!

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#HowIUsedGISToday I used a simple choropleth map of GNI pc on a GIS map to allow pupils to explore how changing the class intervals changes the story. Maps are inherently value-laden. The cartographic choices we make influence the stories we tell. Let's tell worthy stories.

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Looking forward to presenting with the Google for Education team & c2k/Edis on the use of Gemini for assessment. This is part of the c2k Gemini Champions programme with 100 teachers from NI testing out the use of GenAI in real world settings in education.

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A few photos from my @niscifest.bsky.social presentation about the aurora last night. We had such a fabulous time delving into the science behind this beautiful phenomena.

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I absolutely loved sharing about the science of aurora forecasting last night at the @niscifest.bsky.social event. The Crescent Arts Centre was a superb venue & the crowd were so well engaged. Thanks to the NI Sci Fest folks for the chance to be part of the event.

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A sneak peek at part of my presentation for the @niscifest.bsky.social "A Beginner's Guide to Aurora Chasing" this Thursday. Glorious science, applied to real aurora data, with lots of photos of nights out watching the sky dance. Tickets: nisciencefestival.com/events/a-beg...

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If you wonder why things like the Bz are so important in aurora forecasting, then join me this Thursday night at my @niscifest.bsky.social presentation 'A Beginner's Guide to Aurora Chasing'. I'll be explaining the science to help you forecast better! Tickets nisciencefestival.com/events/a-beg...

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An issue I'm seeing across #CogSciSci proponents is a lack of clear distinction between "Checking for listening" and "checking for understanding". In other words, without a clear distinction, it appears that understanding is understood as the ability to say exactly what the teacher has said. #UKEd

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What a wonderful few days at Bett sharing something of our Shared Ed Climate Change Tree Survey as part of the Google Experience. I loved working with such a brilliant group of people, helping the participants explore how Gemini can help fuel curriculum imagination.

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We may feel like we’ve done ‘effective revision strategies’ to death… but the kids still aren’t doing them folks www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...

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Just arrived at Bett 2025 where I'll be working with Google for Education to share something of the citizen science climate change project my Shared Ed pupils have been engaging with this past year. Very excited to tell something of this story!

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GIS flight data from Flight Radar 24 showing a Chinook helicopter filling up with water from a lake, then its repeated flight paths to help fight the Palasades fire in LA. Incredible skills and bravery on display.

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I'm delighted to write a summary of my ResearchEd Belfast presentation "AI from a Cog Sci Perspective" for inclusion in this DE Compendium of many of the presentations at the event. Read more here: www.education-ni.gov.uk/news/researc...

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A useful summary here of presentations from ResearchEd Belfast, with papers from among others @bradleybusch.bsky.social @daisychristo.bsky.social @hugheshaili.bsky.social @ahamill.bsky.social as well as me banging on about curriculum. www.education-ni.gov.uk/news/researc...

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Any followers from NI looking for that last minute Christmas gift for the aurora chaser in your life? Why not grab them a ticket to my NI Science Festival presentation "A beginner's guide to aurora chasing"? Tickets & details here: nisciencefestival.com/events/a-beg...

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#HowIUsedGISToday It was time to use a satellite thermal image of the December 2022 eruption at Semeru to check the accuracy of my pupils hazards & evacuation maps.

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When you're teaching the factors affecting wind direction (Pressure Gradient Force, Coriolis Effect and Friction) and you go on to Windy.com to see if there is an example - and you're greated by a textbook example! Happy times!

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#HowIUsedGISToday 1/ Y14 pupils using GIS & satellite imagery to produce a hazards map for Semeru. They used data from the Nov 21 eruption to map evacuation routes for the potential eruption in Nov 22. Next lesson, we'll see how accurate their forecasts were!

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