Education Blog

Wow! Ed Summit is going to have a stacked lineup for folks interested in learning about projects and data collection. Check out the schedule I'd follow: GIS Projects with Students Custom Agenda

Esri consistently releases new contents, updates, and resources related to their products, solutions, apps, and applications, as well as best practices, success stories, recorded webinars, and more. Although these resources are posted in various locations, they can be difficult to find.

This blog provides a comprehensive list of all the May 2025 technical highlights and resources from Esri. It is a buffet-style list, so feel free to pick and choose the topics that interest you.

This blog aims at elaborating on how we get started with Teaching with AI Assistants in GIS – where do we incorporate in curriculum, what the resources are, as well as possible limitations.

This blog aims at elaborating on how we get started with Teaching with GeoAI in ArcGIS – where do we incorporate in curriculum, what the resources are, as well as possible limitations.  

This blog elaborates on what can be done with AI in GIS, including Education examples, and where to go as next steps.

AI has had a profound impact on how we do our work. This blog aims to explain why we want to use AI in GIS Education, and where to go as next steps.

Passionate about integrating GIS and innovative strategies into your K12 classroom? Join us for an engaging Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting focused on instructional materials, professional development, and the use of GIS software in K12 education.

Learn about options and recommendation to help you deploy and manage ArcGIS at your institution, if you are a Departmental License customer. 

The privacy of minors needs to be protected. This includes their faces. When doing data collection with students, you might give instructions not to take pictures with other students in them. However, sometimes a student is in the background, or the instruction is forgotten (or ignored). You can set up your survey in ArcGIS Survey123 so that faces are blurred out when photos are taken.

The closer Ed Summit gets, the more excited I am for my session ArcGIS Survey123 Design Challenge. This session is going to focus on designing surveys in ArcGIS Survey123 web designer to guarantee you get clean, well-formatted data that you can use to do analysis and solve your question. But we aren’t going to just tell you the answers – we’re going to see who can come up with a great solution.

And right now, I want your favorite tips so I can make the session pull from more than just my tricks.