Abstract
Digital Globes: The Importance of Effective Teaching
Track: Educational Research and Teacher Education
Author(s): Katie Clagett
Digital globes offer notable benefits over traditional desktop GIS when being used as a teaching tool in the classroom. Although advantages have been suggested, there has been virtually no quantitative research done to measure whether the implementation of digital globes benefits students in the same ways as desktop GIS. This research seeks to fill this dearth by measuring the differences in learning between students performing the same task using either paper maps or a virtual globe application. Though results show no significant difference between raw scores for students using the two methods, they demonstrate a difference in the approach that students take to answer the questions posed to them. These results point to the importance of the way in which a digital globe is implemented in attaining the suggested benefits of these applications. Additionally, this research offers suggestions for more effective implementation of digital globes as a teaching tool.
Katie Clagett
Erasmus Mundus
3 Coffin Court
Newburyport , Massachusetts 01950
United States
Phone: 802-989-3363
E-mail: kathryn.clagett@gmail.com