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

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11-18-2022 10:23 AM
JosephKerski
by Esri Alum
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‎11-18-2022 10:23 AM

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-... 

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

--Joseph Kerski 

2 Comments
BeckySicking
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‎12-07-2022 10:22 AM

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.

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JosephKerski
by Esri Alum
Esri Alum
‎12-07-2022 10:25 AM
Absolutely - thanks for reading, and sharing, and this is exactly what we are nudging the community to get away from! --Joseph Kerski
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.
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