The Teacher’s Guide to Tech (2025)

The Teacher’s Guide to Tech (2025) is now available!

GeoSpy

GeoSpy can geoference photographs without any spatial information & apparently it works quite well - more @ https://flowingdata.com/2025/01/23/geolocating-photos-automatically/

That's pretty cool & also scary...no hiding anymore from the AI...

Teens & Social Media

Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024 by the Pew Research Center leads with this chart. Not sure what to make of it, but 1) YouTube rules, 2) TikTok & Instagram & Snapchat are important, 3) Twitter is irrelevant, and 4) Facebook is holding steady after dropping like a rock.

An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election

An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election by the NYT shows the 2024 election results down to the precint level & the data are available as well!

The Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas

The Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas is awesome - have a look! You can display measurements, reanalysis, and model data at all kinds of geographies & time scales. And: download the data in a bunch of formats.

It is just too much...nobody will use it. Expert scientists will access the data directly and the general public will scared off by the complexity. This is really designed for the rare 'regular' person who is interested & competent enough to figure-out the tool.

Suggestion: Make a simplified version or walk-through video.

Tourism & AI

Cool combination of tourism & AI: Google Talking Tours. Here Google combines Street View images & panoramas with an AI-generated narrative. Currently this only covers some 55 major sites, but you can easily envison this for literally anywhere.

SAR 'Images' in ArcGIS Pro

Good stuff here in-case you need to process SAR imagery in ArcGIS Pro: Getting to Know the SAR Analysis Toolset.