- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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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
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- 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
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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
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- Apr 9, 2021
- LMEC Staff
Teaching with Maps in the Past
We use maps for teaching every day at LMEC, just like educators have been doing for centuries!
Read more- Mar 22, 2021
- Rachel Mead
One Year of Remote Programming
After being closed for a year, we've built up a wealth of online offerings for you to use anytime!
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