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First Annual Conference, Salzburg Austria, July 5-8 2011, Learning with GI as part of GIForum

 

Welcome and Keynotes

Prof Joseph Strobl, Z-GIS, Salzburg, GeoSpatial Education

Dr Joseph Kerski, President NCGE, ESRI Inc.- "Sleepwalking into the future: the case for Spatial Analysis throughout education"

Dr. Colin Arrowsmith, Ass. Prof, RMIT, Australia, Learning with GI: lessons from an Australian undergraduate course

 

Session 1: Curriculum Development

Impediments to GI(S) Use in Schools. A Comparison of International Empirical Results - J. Schubert, Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

Designing a course of geoinformatics for secondary schools: a conceptual framework - J. Roosaare, University of Tartu, Estonia

Review of GI usage in Bulgarian school system - L. Filipov, GIS Analytics Ltd., Bulgatria

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Session 2: Spatial Citizenship

The Cultivation of Spatial-Civic Decision-Making through
WebGIS
- A. Milson, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

“Interesting. But I haven’t thought of this before.”: Teachers’ attitude towards Critical Cartography in
educational environments
- I. Gryl, University Koblenz-Landau, Germany

raum:planen. An online learning environment for spatial
plannin
g - V. Asamer, Z_GIS, Austria

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Session 3: Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing, New Media and Scientific Literacy - A New Integrated Learning Portal for Schools Using Satellite Images - K. Voß, University of Bonn, Germany
“Monitoring Earth from Space”: An Interdisciplinary, Bilingual and Propaedeutic Science Workshop for
Secondary Schools - R. Plötz, Adolf-Weber-Gymnasium, Germany

´Can forests be red?´ A theoretical competence model of satellite image reading literacy and its empirical validation - I. Kollar, PH Heidelberg, Germany

´GLOKAL Change´: A learning platform designed to foster evaluation competence by applying remote sensing data - M. Jahn, University of Education Heidelberg, Germany

 

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Session 4: Post-secondary education

Competence Dimensions in a Bologna-oriented GIS Education - U. Schulze, Philipps-Univ. Marburg, Germany
Learning Analysis Operations with Spatial SQL and a New Online Tool - K. Stefan, HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, CH

Proposal of a semiautonomous
educational framework to learn GIS in the Geoscience
s - R. Balzarini, Laboratoire d, France

 

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