GIS Education Weekly: Learning Geography with Pokemon GO, Finding Money for EdTech, Making Naked Maps

In and Out of the Classroom

An ASU student works on a paper map that's
part of a Pokemon GO lesson

ASU professor Karen Guerrero has turned the mobile game Pokémon GO into a tool to teach geography, math and language skills. She's a member of the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and wrote a lesson aimed at sixth graders that builds on the game.

Yingjie Hu, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Krzysztof Janowicz and Helen Couclelis, both of the University of California, Santa Barbara developed an algorithm for prioritizing disaster mapping tasks, such as the work of HOTOSM.