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Pow, Jacky – Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 2016
Many geographers have argued that geographical imagination plays a crucial role in geography education. Unfortunately, geography teachers often find it difficult to stimulate their students' geographical imaginations. One emerging concern is to determine how geography teachers can foster their students' geographical imaginations so that they can…
Descriptors: Imagination, Geography Instruction, Stimulation, Teaching Methods
Sack, Carl M. Lemke Oliver – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation explores how to teach web mapping. Web mapping skillsets are in demand by employers, yet a minority of Geographic Information Science (GIScience) programs include web mapping in their curricula. The dissertation seeks to promote web mapping education by addressing the barriers to teaching web mapping and instructional strategies…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Cartography, Geographic Information Systems, Geography Instruction
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Hollman, Verónica – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
This study offers a discussion of the role of the visual in the professional training of geographers arguing that visual literacy is not necessarily promoted during geography undergraduate studies. It then analyzes an experience of teaching a visualized Latin America developed in Argentina, as an illustrative example: on the one hand, it reveals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Geography Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Michael, Kurt Y. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2013
The "Titanic" caught the attention and imagination of the public when, in 1985, the sunken ship was discovered 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland (PBS, 2012). Since that time, scientists have conducted numerous expeditions using high-resolution SONAR working in tandem with remote-operated vehicles (ROV) to collect information used…
Descriptors: Navigation, Cartography, Computer Simulation, Knowledge Representation
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Leguizamon, Saturnino – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2010
The term "geospatial technologies" encompasses a large area of fields involving cartography, spatial analysis, geographic information system, remote sensing, global positioning systems and many others. These technologies should be expected to be available (as "natural tools") for a country with a large surface and a variety of…
Descriptors: Cartography, Geography, Information Systems, Foreign Countries
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Cheong, France; Cheong, Christopher; Jie, Ferry – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2012
Routing is the process of selecting appropriate paths and ordering waypoints in a network. It plays an important part in logistics and supply chain management as choosing the optimal route can minimise distribution costs. Routing optimisation, however, is a difficult problem to solve and computer software is often used to determine the best route.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Visualization, Maps, Internet
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Liben, Lynn S. – Knowledge Quest, 2008
Children's cognitive skills change substantially from the time they enter school at about the age of five to when they graduate from high school a dozen years later. Some changes can be attributed to the school curriculum, but others are part of children's developmental evolution as they mature and interact with the world. Rather than reviewing…
Descriptors: Maps, Young Children, Cognitive Development, Teaching Methods