15 Reasons to Embrace GIS as a Teaching Tool: New eBook

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I am excited to announce a new eBook that invites educators to explore reasons to embrace Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a teaching tool, and provides guidance and practical ways of using GIS in multiple disciplines and at multiple levels of education.

The focus of the book is to empower instructors--and their students--with spatial thinking through GIS. The book can be used to learn about:

Why and how GIS is a relevant and viable teaching tool
Strategies for effective teaching with GIS
How to make GIS instruction holistic, field-based, multiscale, and visionary
Skills that are fostered when teaching with GIS

This ebook is for instructors who are:

Teaching GIS courses in universities and technical, tribal, and community colleges.
Using GIS to teach science, social science, and other disciplines in secondary schools and higher education.

It is also my hope that this eBook will be of use to educators who are seeking to gain stakeholders and partners across their campuses and in their communities. Through the clear and compelling arguments, this document makes the case for why GIS isn't just a "nice to have" approach and toolset in education, but a "must have."

--Joseph Kerski

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About the Author

I believe that spatial thinking can transform education and society through the application of Geographic Information Systems for instruction, research, administration, and policy. I hold 3 degrees in Geography, have served at NOAA, the US Census Bureau, and USGS as a cartographer and geographer, and teach a variety of F2F (Face to Face) (including T3G) and online courses. I have authored a variety of books and textbooks about the environment, STEM, GIS, and education. These include "Interpreting Our World", "Essentials of the Environment", "Tribal GIS", "The GIS Guide to Public Domain Data", "International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning with GIS In Secondary Education", "Spatial Mathematics" and others. I write for 2 blogs, 2 monthly podcasts, and a variety of journals, and have created over 6,500 videos on my Our Earth YouTube channel. Yet, as time passes, the more I realize my own limitations and that this is a lifelong learning endeavor: Thus I actively seek mentors and collaborators.