GIS Education Weekly: Why Did I Get that GIS Master's Degree?

Education News

EdWeek: State Grades on Chance for Success: Map and Rankings - "Examine the grades and scores that states and the nation earned on the Chance for Success Index in Quality Counts 2018, along with how they scored on a host of socioeconomic and other indicators that go into those rankings. For a description of what these education indicators mean, view the grading scale and methodology." Related article.

GIS Education Weekly: A Study on Distorted Representations of Country Size on Maps

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UGent: How accurate is your mental map? - Lieselot Lapon invites those interested to complete a "fun study to challenge your mental model of world maps. Guess the correct size of countries and support PHD research." Via @kennethfield.

Resources

Texas State: Research in Geographic Education - Volume 19, Issue 2 features papers by the 2016 recipients of transformative research grants from the National Center for Research in Geography Education.

GIS Education Weekly: Mapping College Promise Programs, Blue Marble Higher Ed Deal, CitSci on PBS

College Promise Programs

Articles and Resources

University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate of School of Education: Interactive Map of College Promise Programs - The map uses technology called Whimsy, built by the GSE on Leaflet and OpenStreetMap.

Blog post: GIS Graduates Want More Coding, App Building, IT - Results of a survey of Esri young professionals shared by David DiBiase.

GIS Education Weekly: NSF Videos, Summer MOOCs

NSF Teaching and Learning Video Showcase includes GIS

The NSF 2015 Teaching and Learning Video Showcase: Improving Science, Math, Engineering, and Computer Science Education event will be held online May 11-15, 2015. Seven NSF funded resource centers including, MSPnet, CADRE, CIRCL, CAISE, STELAR, CS10K and ARC have come together to host this cross-center online video event to showcase cutting-edge NSF work.

Students use QGIS in Elementary Classroom Video

At least two of the 112 presentations include GIS. There's voting for awards by facilitators, presenters and viewers. Voting runs until Friday and winners will be announced Monday. Here are the two GIS focused videos I found:

GIS in the Elementary Classroom: Impact on Higher-level Reasoning and Spatial Thinking
I liked this one in part because it used paired learning and QGIS (at right), though the package was not named.

Addressing STEM Demand through the GRACE Program
This effort focuses on the GRACE program in Michigan and how it taps into ConnectED. It mentions the Environmental Systems Research Institute. I noted the GRACE program here; there are more details from EMU here.

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