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Direct linkHagge, Patrick D. – Geography Teacher, 2023
The role of geographic information systems (GIS) in education is vital. Geospatial skills have been shown to correlate with improved performance of general spatial thinking (Lee and Bednarz 2009) as well as specific geography-related content (Hall-Wallace and McAuliffe 2002). As students are exposed to more GIS, they gain skills that are desired…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Cartography, Lecture Method, Conventional Instruction
Peer reviewedSlocum, Terry A.; Dunbar, Matthew D.; Egbert, Stephen L. – Journal of Geography, 2007
This article discusses modern stereoscopic displays for geographic education, focusing on a large-format display--the GeoWall. To evaluate the potential of the GeoWall, geography instructors were asked to express their reactions to images viewed on the GeoWall during a focus group experiment. Instructors overwhelmingly supported using the GeoWall,…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Focus Groups, Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods
Download full textYiannoutsou, Nikoleta; Kynigos, Chronis – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
We report research on meanings of scale generated by pairs of 14 year-old students engaged in joint map-construction. Characteristics of the learning environment, such as the communicational orchestration, the use of experientially familiar objects in space as starting points for creating figural representations and the interrelated…
Descriptors: Cartography, Spatial Ability, Map Skills, Cooperative Learning
