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Aug 10, 2015 · Why GIS in Education Matters. Teaching spatial thinking empowers the populace with the skills to understand and act upon the big issues facing planet Earth. People have always been fascinated with investigating their home—the Earth. To help understand our planet, ancient scholars in Rome, Greece, and China founded the study of geography more ...
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Feb 19, 2016 · GIS can be used as a tool to look at spatial relationships and help educate geographers about why the relationship between many spatial objects is important (Bednarz, Citation 2004). GIS can achieve this through its emphasis on “… visual expression, collaboration, exploration, and intuition, and the uniqueness of place …” (Wright, Goodchild, & Proctor, Citation 1997 , p. 358).
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- Spatial Thinking. Maps have always been appealing. They convey a large amount of information in a small amount of space. In the past, this space was always constrained by physical media—stone tablets, wood blocks, silver plates, film, or paper.
- Critical Thinking. Critical thinking must include three aspects: data, methods, and maps. Questions to pose as you teach with GIS include the following: What difference would changing the dataset theme, resolution, or scale make in the final analysis?
- Project-Based Learning. GIS was created to solve problems. Using GIS in education helps students frame, visualize, and grapple with problems. It even enables students to create solutions to those problems, whether they are about natural hazards, climate, urban greenways, litter, energy, social inequity, or other complex issues of our day.
- Geographic and Scientific Inquiry. Inquiry involves asking questions, gathering data, assessing the quality of that data, evaluating methods, analyzing the data and the results from each of the methods used, making decisions and recommendations, and taking action.
Community Connection—GIS is a tool used worldwide to help better understand global challenges such as climate, education, water, and other issues addressed in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But at the same time, GIS is a tool that students and educators can use to engage on issues at the local level, such as planning a new bike trail, nurturing public art or ...
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Oct 26, 2023 · Geography instructors with GIS expertise, at both a secondary school level and the university level, were led through a Delphi process to rank statements about GIS teaching: what, why, and how. Differences in the groups’ results were consistent with their respective educational audiences and settings.
Mar 16, 2024 · 1) Teach with real-world examples and hands-on activities. Goal: Creating students who can think spatially and critically, who can apply theory to practice across disciplines and problems. 2) Don't overstress about using the latest-and-greatest version of X software, but by the same token, don't teach like it is 1999.
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Feb 27, 2019 · On balance, however, education policy scholars leveraging GIS within their work usually focus on exploring how things are at a single moment in time, rarely attending to how they came to be that way. This article discusses the promises of geospatial techniques for education policy research and how increased attention to the historical context of spatial data can enhance that work.
