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Rita Hagevik
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Rita A. Hagevik, Ph.D., is the Graduate Director of Science Education in the Department of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She is the author of articles and a presenter of methodologies regarding sustainability, preservice teacher education, and STEM education. Dr. Hagevik is passionate about teachers participating in and creating their own scientific knowledge through the use tools such as geospatial technologies. Hagevik’s scholarship serves as a means of investigating how to prepare and support teachers and in the use technology tools as a means of educating the next sustainably literate society. Email: rita.hagevik@uncp.edu
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Geospatial Technology
Philip A. Reed; John Ritz
Technology Teacher Vol. 63, No. 6 (Mar 01, 2004)
Geospatial technology refers to a system that is used to acquire, store, analyze, and output data in two or three dimensions. This data is referenced to the earth by some type of coordinate system, such as a map projection. Geospatial systems...
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Geospatial Applications for Content Learning
Marsha Alibrandi; Tom Baker; James Oigara; Rita Hagevik; Patricia Stringer-Barnes
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3808–3810
New uses of Geospatial technologies (GSTs)from GPS to GIS to Google Earth and new online GIS mapping are increasingly common in everyday use. In this panel, two award-winning Geospatial educators, Rita Hagevik and James Oigara present current...
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Managing Geospatial Data and Services
Melissa Lamont
Journal of Academic Librarianship Vol. 23, No. 6 (1997) pp. 469–73
Geographic information systems (GIS) are commonly misconceived as expensive and complicated map makers. Although GISs do create maps, they manipulate, organize, and display information, and aid in data documentation and accessibility. Managing GIS...
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Grounding Geospatial Technologies Across Disciplines
Marsha Alibrandi; Donna Goldstein; Jeremy Weber
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3811–3815
In the past decade, new studies have yielded results that should not surprise educators integrating geospatial technologies and content: including these in the curriculum enhances student performance (Hinde, 2009; Goldstein, 2010). Geospatial...
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The Geospatial Web and Local Geographical Education
Trevor M. Harris; L Jesse Rouse; Susan J. Bergeron
International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education Vol. 19, No. 1 (February 2010) pp. 63–66
Recent innovations in the Geospatial Web represent a paradigm shift in Web mapping by enabling educators to explore geography in the classroom by dynamically using a rapidly growing suite of impressive online geospatial tools. Coupled with access to ...
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Integrating Geospatial Technologies in an Energy Unit
Violet A. Kulo; Alec M. Bodzin
Journal of Geography Vol. 110, No. 6 (2011) pp. 239–251
This article presents a design-based research study of the implementation of an energy unit developed for middle school students. The unit utilized Google Earth and a geographic information system (GIS) to support student understanding of the world...
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Integrating Geospatial Technologies in Teacher Education
Judy Lambert
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 2681–2686
Geospatial skills are critical for many of today's jobs yet; insufficient numbers of individuals are prepared to enter the workplace with these skills. Educators must find ways to integrate these skills across the school curriculum and to do so,...
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A Geospatial Approach to Teachers' Diversity Education
Thomas Hammond
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) p. 1636
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act has had mixed effects. While the law provides a powerful mandate that all children--regardless of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status--achieve proficiency in reading and math, it has also narrowed the...
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Geospatial Technologies: Real Projects in Real Classrooms
Bob Kolvoord
Knowledge Quest Vol. 36, No. 4 (2008) pp. 40–45
Geospatial technologies of geographic information systems, global positioning systems, and remote sensing are just a few of the projects that evoke an unexpected drive and devotion from high school students in Virginia. Their integration into...
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Transforming the History Curriculum With Geospatial Tools
Thomas Hammond
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 14, No. 3 (September 2014) pp. 266–287
Martorella's "sleeping giant" is awakening via geospatial tools. As this technology is adopted, it will transform the history curriculum in three ways: deepening curricular content, making conceptual frameworks more prominent, and increasing...
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Special Issue: Geospatial Technologies in Teacher Education
Elizabeth Langran
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 16, No. 3 (2016) pp. 373–379
or nearly 25 years, teachers, researchers, and curriculum developers have designed, tested, and evaluated teacher professional development with geospatial technologies in education. These innovators created a better practice in teaching with mapping ...
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Geospatial Tools in Pre-Service Programs
Shannon White; Thomas Baker
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 2288–2290
This paper will provide an overview of the common infusion strategies, for geospatial technologies in the pre-service science, social studies, and instructional technology classrooms. Geospatial software, hardware, and data will be reviewed,...
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From Treasure Maps to GIS: Geospatial Education
David S. Brown; Justin M. McCrackin; Melissa Stirling; Janet Cairns
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 2280–2287
Recent research on STEM education shows the smallest percentage of minority students who are enrolled in engineering fields are Native Americans, and by far, male students are enrolled in science and engineering fields in greater numbers than their...
Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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Integrating Geospatial Technologies: New Dimensions to Curricula
Marsha Alibrandi; Elizabeth Langran
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 3968–3969
As the ubiquity of geospatial technologies such as Google Earth, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), GIS, GPS-enabled digital cameras and cell phones provide easy access to geo-tagging and adding geo-location to digital stories and social network...
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Teaching for Global Citizenship with Geospatial Technology
Elizabeth Langran; Ajara Beishembaeva
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3838–3842
The Internet can be a powerful tool for global citizenship and civic engagement. It can provide knowledge and insights about rights and duties in the 21st century. This may in turn lead to greater empathy with others, a sense of a global political...
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Examining the Effect of Enactment of a Geospatial Curriculum on Students' Geospatial Thinking and Reasoning
Alec M. Bodzin; Qiong Fu; Violet Kulo; Tamara Peffer
Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 23, No. 4 (August 2014) pp. 562–574
A potential method for teaching geospatial thinking and reasoning (GTR) is through geospatially enabled learning technologies. We developed an energy resources geospatial curriculum that included learning activities with geographic information...
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Geospatial Data Curation at the University of Idaho
Jeremy Kenyon; Bruce Godfrey; Gail Z. Eckwright
Journal of Web Librarianship Vol. 6, No. 4 (2012) pp. 251–262
The management and curation of digital geospatial data has become a central concern for many academic libraries. Geospatial data is a complex type of data critical to many different disciplines, and its use has become more expansive in the past...
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Developing a Curricular Sequence for K-16 Geospatial Integration
Marsha Alibrandi; Tom Baker; Elizabeth Langran; Thomas Hammond; Dan Zalles; Paul Nagel
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 3511–3513
International Geospatial teachers and teacher educators have an ever-increasing opportunities and technolgoies that are both intuitive and age-appropriate for students of all ages. Integration of social media and online mapping, expanded online...
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Persistent Teaching Practices after Geospatial Technology Professional Development
Lori A. Rubino-Hare; Brooke A. Whitworth; Nena E. Bloom; Jennifer M. Claesgens; Kristi M. Fredrickson; Carol Henderson-Dahms; James C. Sample
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 16, No. 3 (2016) pp. 208–285
This case study described teachers with varying technology skills who were implementing the use of geospatial technology (GST) within project-based instruction (PBI) at varying grade levels and contexts 1 to 2 years following professional...
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Survey of Current Practice With Geospatial Tools in Teacher Education
Thomas Hammond
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) pp. 1644–1646
Geographic information technologies (GIT) such as Google Earth and GPS-based navigation have saturated modern society. These tools are beginning to enter classrooms in the context of instruction on geo-referenced topics (e.g., migration, climate...
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Flexibly Adaptive Professional Development for Teaching Science with Geospatial Technology
Nancy Trautman; James MaKinster
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4791–4805
Geospatial technology holds great potential for enabling students to learn science through exploration of environmental issues from local to global scales. However, implementing classroom projects that make effective use of geospatial technology is...
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The Virginia Geocoin Adventure: An Experiential Geospatial Learning Activity
Laura Johnson; John McGee; James Campbell; Amy Hays
Journal of Extension Vol. 51, No. 4 (August 2013)
Geospatial technologies have become increasingly prevalent across our society. Educators at all levels have expressed a need for additional resources that can be easily adopted to support geospatial literacy and state standards of learning, while...
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Future Teachers? Dispositions Toward Teaching With Geospatial Technologies
Injeong Jo
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 16, No. 3 (2016) pp. 310–327
This study examined the effect of a minimal Web-based GIS experience within a semester-long methods course on enhancing preservice teachers? dispositions regarding the use of geospatial technologies for teaching. Fourteen preservice teachers...
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Geospatial Tools and Social Studies Teacher Education: Case Studies
Thomas Hammond; Elizabeth Langran
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3834–3837
Geographic information technologies (GIT) such as Google Earth and GPS-based navigation have saturated modern society. These tools are beginning to enter social studies classrooms in the context of instruction on geo-referenced topics (e.g.,...
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Survey of Geospatial Information Technologies in Teacher Education
Thomas Hammond; Elizabeth Langran; Thomas Baker
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 873–881
The rapidly-developing field of geospatial information technologies (GIT) includes such tools as GPS, Google Maps/Earth, and GIS. While GIT holds great potential for learning in preK-16 education, it is unknown to what extent those who train...
Topics: Information Technology Diffusion/Integration, Geospatial Education
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Introduction to the Complex Geospatial Web in Geographical Education
Fivos Papadimitriou
International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education Vol. 19, No. 1 (February 2010) pp. 53–56
The Geospatial Web is emerging in the geographical education landscape in all its complexity. How will geographers and educators react? What are the most important facets of this development? After reviewing the possible impacts on geographical...
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The Impact of Geospatial Technologies in a Dual-Enrollment Environment
Robert Kolvoord; Michael Charles; Nathaniel Meadow; David Uttal
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1915–1922
We have conducted research to assess the impact of geospatial technologies on high school students’ spatial thinking and problem solving skills as they complete a dual enrollment class with an extensive project component. Through the use of a...
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Spatial Thinking and Geospatial Technologies in Social Studies
Judy Lambert; Reatha Harrison
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1641–1646
It has been argued that spatial thinking should be part of education at all grade levels and that GIS can play a powerful role in promoting spatial thinking. This might be accomplished by using a hierarchical taxonomy of spatial thinking, which...
Topics: social studies education, Geospatial Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Authentic Learning with Geospatial Data: An Investigation of the use of Real-Time Authentic Data with Geospatial Technologies in the K-12 Classroom
Aaron Doering; George Veletsianos
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 2187–2193
This research examines how seven classrooms of middle-school students from the Midwest and Northwest United States used real-time authentic data, provided through an online hybrid adventure learning environment, with the geospatial technology Google ...
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Integrating Geospatial Technologies to Examine Urban Land Use Change: A Design Partnership
Alec M. Bodzin; Lori Cirucci
Journal of Geography Vol. 108, No. 4 (2009) pp. 186–197
This article describes a design partnership that investigated how to integrate Google Earth, remotely sensed satellite and aerial imagery, with other instructional resources to investigate ground cover and land use in diverse middle school...
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Measuring the Impact of Robotics and Geospatial Technologies on Youth Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Attitudes
Gwen Nugent; Bradley Barker; Michael Toland; Neal Grandgenett; Amy Hampton; Viacheslav Adamchuk
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 3331–3340
The Nebraska 4-H organization has developed a robotics and geospatial technologies instructional program for middle school youth (ages 11 to 15 years). Research and evaluation results across the three years of the project have shown that the program ...
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Teaching the Geoweb: Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research in Wireless Sensor Networks, Web Mapping, and Geospatial Data Management
David Abernathy
Journal of Geography Vol. 110, No. 1 (2011) pp. 27–31
This article addresses an effort to incorporate wireless sensor networks and the emerging tools of the Geoweb into undergraduate teaching and research at a small liberal arts college. The primary goal of the research was to identify the hardware,...
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Maps and the Geospatial Revolution: Teaching a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Geography
Anthony C. Robinson; Joseph Kerski; Erin C. Long; Heng Luo; David DiBiase; Angela Lee
Journal of Geography in Higher Education Vol. 39, No. 1 (2015) pp. 65–82
The massive open online course (MOOC) is a new approach for teaching online. MOOCs stand apart from traditional online classes in that they support thousands of learners through content and assessment mechanisms that can scale. A reason for their...
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The Efficacy of Educative Curriculum Materials to Support Geospatial Science Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Alec Bodzin; Tamara Peffer; Violet Kulo
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 20, No. 4 (October 2012) pp. 361–386
Teaching and learning about geospatial aspects of energy resource issues requires that science teachers apply effective science pedagogical approaches to implement geospatial technologies into classroom instruction. To address this need, we designed ...
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A "Neogeographical Education"? The Geospatial Web, GIS and Digital Art in Adult Education
Fivos Papadimitriou
International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education Vol. 19, No. 1 (February 2010) pp. 71–74
Neogeography provides a link between the science of geography and digital art. The carriers of this link are geospatial technologies (global navigational satellite systems such as the global positioning system, Geographical Information System [GIS]...
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Building teacher capacity for teaching about climate change with geospatial data and visualization technology
Dan Zalles
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 4151–4153
Geospatial information technologies provide powerful vehicles for furthering student skills and understandings of geographically situated scientific phenomena. However, researchers dedicated to exploring GIT instructional affordances are challenged...
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The Effectiveness of the Geospatial Curriculum Approach on Urban Middle-Level Students' Climate Change Understandings
Alec M. Bodzin; Qiong Fu
Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 23, No. 4 (August 2014) pp. 575–590
Climate change science is a challenging topic for student learning. This quantitative study examined the effectiveness of a geospatial curriculum approach to promote climate change science understandings in an urban school district with eighth-grade ...
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Teacher Adoption of Geospatial Tools in Special Needs Secondary History Classrooms: Case Studies
Thomas Hammond; Richard Rosenblum
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 4627–4629
One growing trend in history education is the instruction of students with special learning needs. Unfortunately, little research has been done on history education with special needs students, and even less attention has been devoted to technology...
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Using Educative Curriculum Materials to Support Teacher Enactment of a Geospatial Science Curriculum
Alec Bodzin
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1116–1124
As part of a science education reform initiative, a series of Web GIS tectonics investigations with educative materials and embedded supports were developed. These supports were designed to address the need to provide “just in time” professional...
Topics: Curriculum, Science Education, Research & Evaluation, Geospatial Education, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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Front-Loaded Confidence: The Efficacy of Hybrid Professional Development in an ITEST Geospatial Technologies Project
Steven Moore; Don Haviland; William Moore; Jenny Brady; Allison Whitmer
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 692–697
This virtual brief paper describes the efficacy of hybrid professional development used for the CoastLines Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) project. Over a three-year period, CoastLines introduced middle and high...
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Learning Geospatial Analysis Skills with Consumer-Grade GPS Receivers and Low Cost Spatial Analysis Software
Peter E. Linehan
Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education Vol. 35 (2006) pp. 95–100
Spatial analysis technologies are increasingly important tools for all aspects of forest resource management. Field work previously accomplished with map, compass, and engineers' scale is now being augmented, or superseded, by the use of GPS and GIS....
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Geospatial Technology Support in Small Academic Libraries: Time to Jump on Board?
Carrie M. Macfarlane; Christopher M. Rodgers
Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship Vol. 55 (2008)
Many librarians at small academic institutions have been wondering if they can, or even should, support the use of geospatial technology on their campuses. At the Middlebury College Libraries, we have developed a model of support for geospatial...
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Learning about Urban Ecology Through the use of Visualization and Geospatial Technologies
Michael Barnett; Meredith Houle; Sheron Mark; Eric Strauss; Emily Hoffman
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 18, No. 2 (April 2010) pp. 287–317
During the past three years we have been designing and implementing a technology enhanced urban ecology program using geographic information systems (GIS) coupled with technology. Our initial work focused on professional development for in-service...
Topics: Computers, Preservice Teacher Education, Software, Educational Technology, Science
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The Effects of Geospatial Technologies on Preservice Science Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Rita A. Hagevik; Patty Stinger-Barnes
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 4104–4111
This study describes how geospatial technologies (GT) were used to enhance developing technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) in preservice and inservice teachers. Eight preservice elementary, two preservice secondary science, and three...
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Reflections on editing the special CITE Issue - Geospatial technologies in teacher education
Thomas Baker; Elizabeth Langran
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1631–1635
In April 2015, a call for geospatial technology and learning papers was released announcing a special issue of the CITE Journal. This brief paper is intended to share the reflections on the special issue topic of the CITE Journal, the state of...
Topics: Geospatial Education
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Integrating Geospatial Technologies Into Existing Teacher Education Coursework: Theoretical and Practical Notes from the Field
Stacey Kerr
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 16, No. 3 (2016) pp. 328–347
Although instruction related to learning management systems and other educational applications in teacher education programs has increased, the potential of geospatial technologies has yet to be widely explored and considered in the teacher...
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Software for Studying and Enhancing Educational Uses of Geospatial Semantics and Data
Thierry Nodenot; Christian Sallaberry; Mauro Gaio
International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education Vol. 19, No. 1 (February 2010) pp. 57–61
Geographically related queries form nearly one-fifth of all queries submitted to the Excite search engine and the most frequently occurring terms are names of places. This paper focuses on digital libraries and extends the basic services of existing ...
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Using Geospatial Information Technologies and Field Research to Enhance Classroom Learning
Walter H. Schacht; Ashu Guru; Patrick E. Reece; Jerry D. Volesky; Dan Cotton
Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education Vol. 34 (2005) pp. 62–66
A focus of grazing management courses is the cause-effect relationships between grazing livestock distribution and environmental and management variables. A learning module for the classroom was developed to enable students to actively study...
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The Impact of Professional Development in Natural Resource Investigations Using Geospatial Technologies
Carol D. Hanley; Hilarie B. Davis; Bradford T. Davey
Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education Vol. 41, No. 1 (2012) pp. 68–78
As use of geospatial technologies has increased in the workplace, so has interest in using these technologies in the K-12 classroom. Prior research has identified several reasons for using geospatial technologies in the classroom, such as developing ...
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Choosing and Using Geospatial Displays: Effects of Design on Performance and Metacognition
Mary Hegarty; Harvey S. Smallman; Andrew T. Stull
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied Vol. 18, No. 1 (March 2012) pp. 1–17
Interactive display systems give users flexibility to tailor their visual displays to different tasks and situations. However, in order for such flexibility to be beneficial, users need to understand how to tailor displays to different tasks (to...
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