Abstract
Teaching with GIS: Reframing the Debate
Track: Teaching with GIS in K–12 Education
Author(s): Bob Coulter
The past several years have seen many valiant efforts to integrate GIS into a wide range of classrooms. Like other technology-based educational reform efforts, moving past the early adopters and particularly motivated teachers has proven to be inordinately difficult. In this session, a modest effort is made to reframe the debate away from getting GIS into schools and toward an understanding of how the teaching and learning environment can be made more hospitable to geospatial analysis. Meeting this effort half-way, suggestions are offered as to how we can frame our work to be more responsive to current classroom realities.
Bob Coulter
Missouri Botanical Garden
Education Division
PO Box 299
Saint Louis, MO 63166-0299
US
Phone: 314-787-8120
E-mail: bob.coulter@mobot.org