GIS Education Weekly: Teaching Virginia Farmers about Drones and Satellites

Resources for Teaching and Learning

NPR: Here We Have Idaho: How Would You Draw A Map Of Our State? - The local NPR station asks readers to sketch and share how they understand the state.

BBC: Business Daily - The program had a three part series on mapping in Africa in 2018. The last episode ran last week and included TomTom and What3Words among others. Here are links to all three parts: 1, 2, 3.

GIS Education Weekly: Teaching Elections, ROTC to Navy (Geo) Scientist, Research on the Spatial Gender Gap

Resources

Taylor and Francis offers open access to The Geography Teacher issue focusing on the elections through early November. Via @josephkerski.

From The Land Beyond The Stars
from the LOC

The Galileo Museum in Florence, Italy in collaboration with the Library of Congress’ Geography and Map Division, created an online multimedia presentation on Waldseemüller’s life and cartography. Via @LOCMaps.

2015: The State of GIS and Geography Education

An 1899 class in mathematical geography at
Hampton University, a historically black institution
Public Domain, via Wikipedia

I've been doing year end recaps of the GIS industry for more than a decade. My interest has focused more on GIS and geography education for the last few years. I started writing about the topic regularly when I was at Directions Magazine and continued via a newsletter which launched in December of last year.

This will be my first recap detailing the state of GIS and geography education.