What Would You Like to See at the 2006 Annual Conference?
The 2006 NSGIC Mid-Year meeting was a great success. There were 250 attendees.
The Annual Conference is next on the agenda and should be another in the annual string of vibrant and exciting meetings. We hope to see you there.
The Conference Committee has issued its second call for session content ideas, keynote speaker suggestions and themes for the Conference. Send your ideas to Rick Memmel.
The 2006 NSGIC Annual Conference will be held October 1 through 5, 2006, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Annual Conference is next on the agenda and should be another in the annual string of vibrant and exciting meetings. We hope to see you there.
The Conference Committee has issued its second call for session content ideas, keynote speaker suggestions and themes for the Conference. Send your ideas to Rick Memmel.
The 2006 NSGIC Annual Conference will be held October 1 through 5, 2006, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
posted by Mike Mahaffie at 8:56 PM
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Learning To Think Spatially Book Published
Learning to Think Spatially - book
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/11019.html
I'd love to have a short session at the annual conference about the developments in GIS in education, and the linkages between educational partnerships and NSGIC's partnerships.
For example, one recent development is the following: The long-awaited book "Learning to Think Spatially" from the National Academy of Sciences has been published. If we do not have a spatially literate society, much
of our NSGIC efforts will fall on deaf ears. The book examines how spatial thinking might be incorporated into existing standards-based instruction across the school curriculum. The book states that Spatial thinking must be recognized as a fundamental part of K-12 education and as an integrator and a facilitator for problem solving across the curriculum. With advances in computing technologies and the
increasing availability of geospatial data, spatial thinking will play a significant role in the information-based economy of the 21st Century. Using appropriately designed support systems tailored to the K 12
context, spatial thinking can be taught formally to all students. A
GIS offers one example of a
high-technology support system that can enable students and teachers to practice and apply spatial thinking in many areas of the curriculum."
The report is available to purchase in hardcopy or PDF. You can read it online, but it's pretty long, and you might do better to purchase the paperback.
For those seeking just the "bottom line", see Chapter 10, Conclusions and Recommendations.
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