Featured Paper by By Ann B. Johnson
A U.S. National Research Council report published in 2005 stressed the importance of spatial thinking in science and the workplace. The report, Learning to Think Spatially: GIS as a Support System in the K–12 Curriculum, focuses on K–12 education and recommends integrating spatial thinking into the existing K–12 curriculum The report also mentions GIS technology's possible use in helping students develop spatial thinking skills. The use of GIS for such an outcome is not limited to K–12 education. GIS can also play an important role in undergraduate education. GIS is a teaching tool that faculty can use to help students visualize complex spatial relationships in many disciplines. GIS is a learning tool that helps students learn by a different method about subjects such as history and geology. Finally, GIS is a critical thinking tool that helps students learn methodologies to carry out and test hypotheses of research projects based on real-world problems that incorporate real-world data.
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