GIS Now Optional Part of UK national GCSE and A-level curriculums
GIS was piloted in a handful of schools over the last few years and the results were positive, leading to the option of using it in the classroom and for fieldwork. Grades would count to student’s end of year evaluations. The Ordnance Survey provides schools with a broad license for data.
A link in the article from Computing highlights the Royal Geographical Society’s GIS Resources page. There are curriculum resources here including software evaluations by teachers/one GIS professional of 23 GIS packages (some professional, some aimed at education) for the classroom. This summary table is interesting, but is from 2005, so while Multimap is on there, Google Maps/Earth is not.
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/04 at 06:38 AM |
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