Beyond Mapping: Compilation of 25 Years of Essays and Activities about GIS
The Beyond Mapping Compilation Series of the 25-year run of the “Beyond Mapping” column by Dr. Joseph K. Berry in GeoWorld is finally “soup.” The nearly 1000 pages and more than 750 figures in the...
View ArticleGIS and Educational REsearch: The Goldilocks Zone of School District Size
Does the size of a school district matter? Specifically, does the size of the school district (as measured by the Average Daily Attendance – ADA) affect school academic performance? In California,...
View ArticleNew book: Learning and Teaching With Geomedia
Practitioners in every new field need examples that they can follow and modify for their own use. So it is with the field of teaching and learning with GIS. Since 1990, innovative educators began...
View ArticleA Research Agenda for Geospatial Technologies and Learning
For the past few years, eight educational researchers have been working to produce the first pre-collegiate agenda for guiding research in geospatial technology education and learning. The product of...
View ArticleCall for Manuscripts: CITE 2016 Geospatial Technology Special Issue
Call for Manuscripts CITE 2016 Geospatial Technology Special Issue Journal home: http://www.citejournal.org/submit Call for manuscripts: http://bit.ly/CITEGeo Stay informed:...
View ArticleKuhn’s 10 Core Concepts of Spatial Information
Dr Werner Kuhn from the University of Muenster and the University of California Santa Barbara proposed 10 core concepts of spatial information in the hopes of moving the Geographic Information Science...
View ArticleNew Book: Geospatial Technologies and Geography Education in a Changing...
New Book: Geospatial Technologies and Geography Education in a Changing World: Geospatial Practices and Lessons Learned Editors: Osvaldo Muniz Solari, Ali Demirci, Joop van der Schee This book is an...
View ArticleSpatial Citizenship Competencies for Teacher Education
What is a spatial citizen? It has been defined as “An individual who has the motivation, knowledge, skills, and competencies to access and reason with geo-information in order to participate in...
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 ArticleResearch: Geospatial technologies in teacher education
For nearly 25 years, teachers, researchers, and curriculum developers have designed, tested, and evaluated teacher professional development with geospatial technologies in education. These innovators...
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