Why GIS in Education Matters: 3 Videos

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Recently I posted a document that I have been curating for quite a few years now, one explaining why GIS in education matters. This content is also posted with graphics on the Esri Insider newsletter. To provide another way of communicating this information, I have created a series of videos on this same theme, in three parts--Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

The reasons why GIS in education matters include critical thinking, career pathways, spatial thinking, understanding how to work with data and the limitations of data, building media fluency, focusing on the whys of where, asking good questions, solving problems, sustainability and green technology, and understanding changes over space and time.

I am interested in your reactions to these videos: What is missing from this message? What is useful about these videos? In what settings could you use them in your own work with fellow faculty, with faculty from other disciplines, with administrators, with parents, and with students? What do you include in your own messages about the reasons for GIS in education?

Why GIS in Education: Series of videos.

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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 5,000 videos on the Our Earth YouTube channel. Yet, as time passes, the more I realize my own limitations and that this is a lifelong learning endeavor and thus I actively seek mentors and collaborators.