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将GIS工具纳入核心学科的资源需求日益增加。本文回顾了这样一种资源，即一本名为《用GIS导航世界:世界区域地理指南》的书。我相信这本书对教师和学生来说非常有用，不仅可以培养GIS技能，还可以促进核心内容的学习，培养空间思维技能，培养批判性思维和解决问题的能力。在我过去几十年支持教育界的工作中，我遇到了许多富有创新精神的教师、教授、学生、研究人员、院长、设施管理人员、图书管理员和其他许多人。我认识的两位最具创新精神的教师是在德克萨斯基督教大学(TCU)任教的肖恩·克罗蒂(Sean Crotty)和凯尔·沃克(Kyle Walker)。这些讲师不仅教授地理信息系统，而且他们还非常积极地将地理信息系统和空间思维作为一种方法论和方法传播到几个不同的学科，包括商业和地理。我们在Esri与TCU有着持续的合作关系，例如在商业位置分析领域。在同样的工作中，我遇到了几十个出版商，我一直非常尊重这本书的出版商肯德尔·亨特，以及他们在包括地理在内的许多学科上的创新。这本书可以用在地球和环境科学，甚至在社会学，但它是在地理上最亮，最有用的书。《用地理信息系统导航世界:世界区域地理的伴侣》不负其名——它是世界区域地理核心概念的伴侣，并建立在这些概念之上——规模、文化和物理区域、空间和时间的变化、流动和网络、人类对景观的修改等等。 It does so thoughtfully, with a proper balance between focusing on how to use tools and data and the bigger questions that must be asked and grappled with as the tools and data are being used. The authors thankfully do not attempt to deal with every aspect of geography in the book, but rather, take case studies and problems that highlight specific aspects of our world, such as the geography of a global sporting event, such as the World Cup, or maritime disputes. I think that is the right approach to take in any massive subject such as geography, chemistry, history, and others--as educators we must inspire students' interest in the topic and not drown them in a content deluge. I believe the most useful aspect of the book is its focus on ArcGIS Online as a learning and investigative tool: ArcGIS Online provides enough power and functionality without requiring any software to install and without overwhelming students with too many tools. ArcGIS Online can run on any device, anytime, and contains tools to map, analyze, visualize, and communicate the results of any investigation from local to global scale. The labs demonstrate the power that GIS to solve problems in society: It will be clear to the students that GIS is not just being used to teach with and learn from--that it is used in nonprofits, industry, government, and academia to make smarter decisions. This is the same tool and my approach with many courses I have developed and placed online recently, including this environmental science course . The book can be used as a companion to core readings and lectures in geography in its entirety, or parts of the book can be used to lend an active learning component to, for example, economic inequality, health, or demographic change. The book can be used at the community college or university level and even in upper secondary schools. This book has been around for several years, and indeed, when I talked with the authors about the fact that I intended to write this review, I could imagine what was going through their minds. Writing curricular items tied to any technology as rapidly advancing as GIS is bound to show some screenshots that are out of date and data sets that have moved. That's the case with this book but I believe it does stand up very well to the test of time. Thus I believe it merits attention in the library of relevant teaching materials based on GIS available today. Other resources include Chris Carter's Esri Press book Introduction to Human Geography using ArcGIS Online and my own environmental science course mentioned above and this complete course in modern GIS. As an instructor, you have a wonderful array of teaching resources, geospatial tools, and rich data sources at your fingertips to share with your students, and Crotty and Walker's book is an excellent resource. …查看更多

我和我的同事Barbaree Duke在《方向》杂志上写了一篇题为《2022年日常生活中的地理:地理如何融入我们的日常生活》的文章。我们这样做的兴趣源于我们多年来促进和支持地理思维和地理技术，也源于我们对regg Golledge博士和他在2000年提出了几个类似主题的文章的长期尊重。在我们的文章中，我们讨论了2022年与2000年在地理教育和GIS技术方面的变化和相同之处。在日常生活中创建了一个地理信息图。通过Survey123做了一个调查和一个仪表板，上面有几个简短的问题，关于你白天是如何思考空间的，以及如何使用地理工具和地图。调查是公开和可分享的。文章在这里:https://www.directionsmag.com/article/11897请随意参与调查，检查结果信息图，并分享!——约瑟夫Kerski …查看更多

如果你不能和我一起参加GIS日的网络直播!地图、应用程序、音乐——总之，这是一段快乐的时光!(现场链接在这里:https://fb.me/e/3PtnqfMUz)它在GIS日举行-中午12山/下午2点东部/周三11月16日，长度为60分钟。Facebook Live就是一个平台。它向所有人开放，不需要Facebook账户，也不需要注册。如果你访问上面的链接，完整的录音是可用的。我在网络直播中的目标是(1)庆祝GIS的用户，(2)探索为什么地图和地理技术与21世纪的问题解决相关，以及(3)发现如何制作自己的地图并追求自己的学习!这次网络直播非常有趣，包括地名测试、GIS填字游戏、地图、应用程序和3D场景，当然，还有一些地理歌曲!这是邀请您一直想向其介绍GIS的朋友、学生或同事的最佳场所。我把我为这次活动制作的故事地图放在了网上，在这里:https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5627b39ba8d144be9bde1b8f06e4610d我也把这次活动的录音分成了四部分，在这里:第一部分:步行调查，什么是GIS日，GIS日资源，我和其他人今年创建的新资源(课程，视频，课程，指南)。 https://youtu.be/Ro3oo2kn2wY Part 2: ArcGIS Online demo, GIS song, relationship mapping. https://youtu.be/QQ_HBNOznko Part 3: Living Atlas apps, quizzes, GIS crossword, GIS Data, 5 forces, 5 trends https://youtu.be/7fy5h1VKbj0 Part 4: Key skills for GIS success, favorite maps and books, key messages, 1 last geo-song! https://youtu.be/40ll5N1HVrY I also created a resource page for strategies for introducing GIS to others--students, the general public, fellow faculty members, administrators of your school, college, or university, or others, here: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/da25fdefea0a49a0be1c44b0b33f94ff --Joseph Kerski …查看更多