GIS - A Thinker’s Tool
Do you want students to
...
Using a
Geographic
Information
System,
students do
all those ...
they can't avoid it!
With GIS, students can
explore any topic that involves locations. They can analyze how it relates to
other conditions of a given place, or to similar features in other places. For
instance ...
When high numbers of
deformed frogs are found, what characteristics, near or far, might influence
this?
Where local school
populations are changing rapidly, how might attendance zones shift to optimize
resources?
Where recent turmoil has
uprooted a population, how might surrounding regions have contributed to the
situation, and how might they respond?
When controversy about a
facility threatens to tear a community apart, how can they visualize the
information and evaluate the alternatives?
When a scourge strikes
and spreads, where can barriers be erected effectively to limit its expansion?
GIS allows bringing
together disparate data from diverse fields.
Users must wrestle with:
What is the
challenge
for teachers?
The process of GIS
For any exploration,
Results are therefore
hard to pre-define in terms of exact content.
Paradigm of Education
With GIS, teachers can
provide students an opportunity and motive for
Iterative
Processing
with GIS
Teacher’s Role
Critical
Questions
for Teachers
GIS is a tool
for
integrating thinkers,
of any age.
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