Geography in Everyday Life: New Article, Infographic, Survey, and Dashboard

JosephKerski

My colleague Barbaree Duke, long time editor at Directions Magazine, and I have written an article entitled Geography in Everyday Life:  How geography is embedded in our everyday lives.  Our interest in doing so stems from our years of promoting and supporting geographic thinking and geotechnologies, and also from our longstanding respect to Dr Reg Golledge and his article from the year 2000 that put forth several similar themes.  In our article, we:

• Discuss what has changed and what is the same now vs 2000 regarding geography education and GIS technology.
• Created a geography in everyday life infographic.
• Created a survey via Survey123 and a dashboard with a few short questions about how you think spatially during the day and use geographic tools and maps.  The survey is open and shareable.

The article is here:

https://www.gisetc.com/geography-in-everyday-life-in-2022-how-geography-is-embedded-in-our-everyday-lives/ 

Feel free to participate in the survey, examine the resulting infographic, and to share!  

--Joseph Kerski 

BeckySicking

In school, geography all too often can be taught as memorization of place names and capitals, making it seem disconnected from everyday life, when in fact, as you point out, geography IS in life, every single day. Everything happens somewhere and geography affects so much more than we are aware of. Kudos for bringing this to our attention.