Understanding the Digital Generation: Further Connections to GIS in Education
In my last post, I made the case that Jukes, McCain, Crocket, and Prensky’s book Understanding the Digital Generation holds key lessons for those of us who are involved in teaching with GIS and...
View ArticleLearning, Unlearning, and Relearning
“The illiterate of the 21st century,” wrote Alvin Toffler, “will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Toffler’s words seem particularly appropriate...
View ArticleEast Dakota, West Dakota
East Dakota and West Dakota GIS is often used to help us understand the world as it is, or was in the past, or model what it could be like in the future. But it can also be used to explore what could...
View ArticleA Working Definition of Spatial Thinking
The phrase “spatial thinking” has been receiving increasing attention over the past decade, encouraged in part from the National Research Council’s report Learning to Think Spatially: GIS as a Support...
View ArticleBe Spatially Critical
At the last Esri International User Conference, my Esri education colleague Laura Bowden and I conducted a spatial thinking workshop. Laura said something in the workshop that I have been musing about...
View ArticleTeaching Spatial Concepts with Zonal Statistics
I recently created a set of activities based on using web-based GIS tools to teaching spatial thinking using drive-time buffers, and another set of activities that use viewsheds. Another type of...
View ArticleThe 3 “I’s” of GeoLiteracy, and GIS
In a “What is Geo-literacy” video, several key staffpersons from National Geographic define geographic literacy, but make a case for why it is important. One of my favorite things about the video is...
View ArticleStating the Obvious? GIS in Education
I miss the days when John Madden provided “color commentary” about National Football League games for two reasons. One, I believe he helped foster the notion that the love for football is not just...
View ArticleFive Forces Catapulting Geography onto the World Stage
In an article in Directions Magazine, I describe five forces catapulting geography onto the world stage. These five forces, including geo-awareness, geo-enablement, geotechnologies, citizen science,...
View ArticleGeomentoring for Geoliteracy
I recently had the opportunity to discuss Geomentoring at the Esri User Conference. In response to the comments I received at the conference after the presentation, I created a presentation on...
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