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JosephKerski
Esri Notable Contributor

How can Earth changes be effectively, quickly, and engagingly taught?  How can remote sensing principles be taught in an interactive way?  The new Landsat Explorer app can serve as a tool, method, and a data set to do just that, as this essay and lesson explains. 

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JosephKerski
Esri Notable Contributor

How can Earth changes be effectively, quickly, and engagingly taught?  The new Landsat Explorer app can serve as a tool, method, and a data set to do just that, as this essay and lesson explains. 

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Jason_Sawle
Esri Contributor

Powerful tools to help students quantify change and predict the future!

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CharlieFitzpatrick
Esri Regular Contributor

Hey, educators in high school and college, are you and your colleagues ready to face new students with multiple years of GIS experience?

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Kylie
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The February 2024 update to MapMaker is all about improved access to maps! It’s easier to find the maps and layers you need, work with the contents of the open map, learn about maps, and find what you need in the help. And yes, of course we’ve added some new maps and layers that are ready for your classroom.

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JosephKerski
Esri Notable Contributor

This article describes the Barbara Petchenik Children's Map Competition, which is open to US students 15 years old and under.

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CharlieFitzpatrick
Esri Regular Contributor

In his activities with young people, Nick Okafor, the founder of trubel&co, models the nature and power of GIS. In understanding his story, these truths stand out.

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  1. Our world has innumerable layers, everywhere across space and time.
  2. Not everyone sees, acknowledges, understands, or considers all layers.
  3. Mapping data makes more visible even that which is hidden, which gives it more power.
  4. Exploring and integrating data geographically illuminates the patterns within layers and the relationships between them.
  5. One can understand better the nature, quality, value, and power of data by generating data, ideally about something that affects one personally.
  6. Once someone learns to see and think in layers, it is hard to stop.
  7. The intersection of layers can compound impacts though feedback cycles.
  8. Grasping the interplay of layers can help one conceive alternatives; how things are is not how they must be.
  9. Young people have a keen sense of justice and power, and generating maps that show injustice builds power.
  10. In profound ways, GIS propels experiential learning, critical thinking, problem-solving, project-based learning, and a STEM-based modus operandi, useful personally in any number of careers, and helpful for communities.

For centuries, maps have meant knowledge … and power. Young people can grasp this truth and harness the power of maps with just a few basic GIS tools. See how this remarkable educator is building vision within communities.

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CharlieFitzpatrick
Esri Regular Contributor

How can we create the world we want to see? How is an essential government agency working on it?

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CharlieFitzpatrick
Esri Regular Contributor

Do you recognize a "true teacher" when you see one? What indicator do you rely on?

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CharlieFitzpatrick
Esri Regular Contributor

Does it feel like US politics is like 538 people on a single teeter-totter? Might this map help?

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