Abstract
Geospatial Learning @ Primary School
Track: Educational Research and Teacher Education
Author
With the advent of GI Science and Geographic Information in general public (for example via virtual globes and navigation systems), education systems all over the world start integrating them in their curricula including competences like spatial orientation, spatial learning, and spatial thinking. The presented GeospatialLearning@PrimarySchool project takes up this movement, by introducing a simple GIS application for children aged 7-12 to foster these competences with activities like map- and gps-based geocaching or geotagging. In a case study a prototype for the XO-laptop of “One Laptop Per Child” is being implemented and tested in Primary Schools in Germany and Rwanda. An import-export functionality from/to an Esri ArcGIS-environment for preparation, post processing or analysis of the mapped data is in a conceptual phase.
Thomas Bartoschek
Institut for Geoinformatics - University of Münster
Weselerstr. 253
Münster 48151
Germany
Phone: +492518330011
E-mail: bartoschek@uni-muenster.de