GIS EDUCATION

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GIS EDUCATION LIBRARIES

• INLS 110-111

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A VISION FOR EDUCATION SPATIAL DATA IN THE
CLASSROOM

• For spatial data usage to become ubiquitous --
  training awareness of data analysis must
  infiltrate all levels of education
• K-12
• College/University
• Lifelong learning environments
• People, places and patterns geography puts the
  pieces together

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GIS EDUCATION TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT

• Technical approach
• Digital Information Specialists
• after all it is an information system
• DBMS programming Avenue, VB, C device
  drivers etc
• Non-technical Approach
• Environmental Science Specialists
• Theoretical framework
• Explore applications of GIS to real world problems

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GIS Education Champions

• UCGIS Education Priorities
  (University Consortium for Geographic
  Information Science)
• http//www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/other/ucgis/ed_prioritie
  s/
• ESRI Samples of GIS Exercises
• http//gis.esri.com/industries/k-12/arclessons/arc
  lessons.cfm
• NCGIA Core Curriculum proposal- technical
  (National Center for Geographic Information
  Analysis)
• http//www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/giscc/

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