Titlebook: International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning with GIS in Secondary Schools; Andrew J. Milson,Ali Demirci,Joseph J. Kerski Book 2012

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Finland: Diffusion of GIS in Schools from Local Innovations to the Implementation of a National Curew projects and activities that partly enhanced the incorporation of GIS in the curricula. This chapter presents a case study on the use of global positioning system (GPS) receivers in lower-secondary school education through a geocaching exercise and concludes with the most recent prospects for lea

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France: Dogmatic Innovations, Innovative Teachers, and Parallel Experimentations,al authorities, isolated innovative teachers and parallel experimentations such as project-based learning or game-based learning, coexist separately. As a result, we advocate for an interoperability framework in order to facilitate the diffusion and the convergence of rich and various local initiati

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Ghana: Prospects for Secondary School GIS Education in a Developing Country,and trained personnel remain major impediments. Unstable power compounds the problem further and restricts computer access mostly to Internet cafes in urban areas. This is the situation in Ghana, where awareness of the value of GIS as a decision-making tool is matched with very little application. G

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Hungary: GIS in Natural Science Teacher Training, Core Curriculum and teacher training, I discuss the status of GIS in them. A case study shows how GIS was introduced to the most motivated teachers during the period 2001–2009. The chapter concludes that teacher training is the key to use GIS in secondary education in Hungary.

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India: Localized Introduction of GIS in Elite Urban Private Schools and Prospects for Diffusion,e at either the state or the national level. While Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is still at a nascent stage in terms of the overall curriculum at the secondary school level, its importance and relevance in higher education and in certain sectors of the job market has significantly grown in t

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Lebanon: A Personal Journey from Professional Development to GIS Implementation in an English Langurst GIS–GPS professional development workshop for educators in the Middle East and North Africa, this educator shows that student motivation and critical thinking improved even when GIS is used in a subject not often considered as a primary avenue for geotechnology—the English language classroom.

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Malta: GIS and Geography Teaching in the Context of Educational Reform,mines the development of the local educational system over the past decades. We discuss the role of recent technological developments in secondary schooling in Malta, with particular reference to Geography, the handling of geographic information and use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The c

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India: Localized Introduction of GIS in Elite Urban Private Schools and Prospects for Diffusion,te a growing demand for GIS skills, its inclusion as a core component of secondary education remains unfulfilled due to a variety of reasons. This chapter identifies some of the key challenges that secondary schools across the country face in adopting GIS and its associated technologies as part of t