Joseph J. Kerski

Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), and University of Denver

This study is intended to provide insight into geospatial practitioners' viewpoints toward the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (DOLETA) Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM). These viewpoints are significant since business professionals use workplace competencies for job analysis, professional certification, a...

This teaching brief explores how and why location analytics should be taught in business schools using three objectives. First, an explanation is provided for the importance of including location analytics in the standard business school curriculum—especially in the field of supply chain management. Second, a lack of GIS‐based location analytics me...

The advent of Web GIS tools, with their ability to collect, map, and analyze field data, to access spatial data as services covering a wide variety of scales, and to build web mapping applications such as dashboards and story maps, allows students of all ages to understand the SDGs and why they matter. This chapter discusses the societal, education...

Between June 27–29, 2022, the American Association Geographers Organizing Committee hosted an in-person Summit bringing together a breadth of disciplines, including social scientists, computer scientists, humanists, and legal scholars and professionals, to further discuss locational information and the public interest. The participants were brought...

The authors assessed eight years of a national professional development institute focused on providing geographic information systems (GIS) teaching and technical skills for educators, titled Teachers Teaching Teachers GIS (T3G). Through a survey (N¼276 [out of a total population of 450]), the authors determined that the institute generally met its...

SECTION I INTRODUCTORY MATTER 1 Spatial Thinking: Maps, the New Paradigm. Joseph J. Kerski 2 Spatial Thinking: Archives and Timelines. Sandra L. Arlinghaus 3 Spatial Thinking: Book Structure. Sandra L. Arlinghaus SECTION II ANIMAPS, 1990s 4 Animaps: Varroa Honeybee Mite Diana Sammataro, Sandra L. Arlinghaus, and John D. Nystuen 5 Animap T...

SPATIAL THINKING: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT: MAPS, ARCHIVES, AND TIMELINES.

Three manifestations of Web GIS are influencing the way GIS is being used to teach with GIS and about GIS. These manifestations include web mapping and analysis, teaching with and creating web mapping applications, and collecting data using field-based citizen science mapping tools. This chapter investigates how these maps, data sets, tools, and me...

Earth Science and Geography teacher preparation has developed to some degree along different lines, despite sharing many of the same issues, especially with regard to challenges in teacher education. The conference “International Perspectives on Geography and Earth Science Teacher Education 2016” wanted to bring together educa- tors from both scien...

Why water quality and quantity matter to society, and how educators can teach about this critical topic.

How effective is this fence at keeping people, objects, or sensitive information inside or outside? Location Privacy concerns the claim of individuals to determine when, how, and to what extent information about themselves and their location is communicated to others. Privacy implications for spatial data grow in importance with increasing awarenes...

Dr. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux is an applied climatologist by training. I have long been impressed at the breadth of her work, which intersects many fields, including hydroclimatic natural hazards, climate variability and change, climate literacy, historical climatology, severe weather hazards, and the use of remote sensing and GIS in the discipline...

Kerski, Joseph J. 2016. Teaching with geotechnologies – Teaching spatial thinking and GIS using abductive reasoning. GeoAgenda 2016(5): 12.

This important book demonstrates why geography matters in the modern-day world through its examination of 100 moments throughout history that had a significant impact on the study of geography—literally, “writing about the earth.” Geography is not simply accounts of the lands of earth and their features; it’s about discovering everything there is t...

In the changing landscape of GIS and public domain spatial data, issues of location privacy are more important now than ever before. GIS tools, data, and applications have developed more rapidly than the establishment of legislation governing the use of spatial data, including privacy. The issue of location privacy is a particularly thorny one, occ...

Editor’s note: Thank you for joining us for this month's edition of GeoInspirations. Today Dr. Joseph Kerski introduces us to a young woman who is still in the early stages of her career, yet is already one of our industry's most inspiring voices — Madison Vorva.

Take a story map tour of a public arts project in Wimberley, Texas to see how one community shares its sense of place.

What makes you and/or your community unique? Each community, family, or person has a rich and diverse history, set of experiences, and links to geography. This richness can be communicated in a compelling way using multimedia through maps. Today’s maps, through the evolution of geographic technologies to the cloud, are dynamic, easy to update, can...

2016 Keynote Address: University of Wisconsin Geospatial Forum: Geography on the World Stage: Unprecedented Opportunities

Is mathematical category theory a unifying tool for geography? Here we look at a few basic category theoretical ideas and interpret them in geographic example. We also offer links to indicate how category theory has been used as such in other disciplines. Finally, we announce the direction of our research program on this topic as a way to facilitat...

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Though remote in distance and in everyday thought, the Earth’s Polar regions have profound significance for the Earth's climate, environments, and human society. However we still remain remarkably ignorant of the location, scale, pattern, relationships, and trends of polar phenomena, cultures, history, and ecosystems. Compounding these issues are r...

Approaches for Teaching Youth with GIS

Some argue that water is the most significant issue of the 21st Century. Studying it touches many geographic themes and invites exploration of its spatial patterns. Ask students to name at least 10 ways in which they use water. What factors influence the amount of water that they use? Ask students to conduct research on the uses of water in the typ...

Three converging trends—an awareness of global challenges, the spread of geospatial technologies (GST) to the general public, and the geo-enabling of everything—offer opportunities and justification for the use of GST in education. GST is becoming recognized as fostering content knowledge, skills, and the geographic perspective. Most obvious are te...

GIS and STEM Education - Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics

GIS and Social Studies Education

GIS Connections to Environmental Science

GIS Connections to AP Human Geography

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This file was uploaded as a supplement to: Spatial Mathematics: Selected Examples Solstice: An Electronic Journal of Geography and Mathematics, Jun 2015

This file was uploaded as a supplement to: Spatial Transformations and Visualization: Selected Common Threads and Root Concepts Linking Old to New, Solstice: An Electronic Journal of Geography and Mathematics, Jun 2015

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The freeway overpass has become one of the most familiar experiences and scene (Figure 1) on the modern landscape. Limited-access freeways, hastened by President Eisenhower’s signing of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 that gave birth to the interstate highway system, have grown to over 62,000 mi (99,000 km) in the United States. Whether called...

The massive open online course (MOOC) is a new approach for teaching online. MOOCs stand apart from traditional online classes in that they support thousands of learners through content and assessment mechanisms that can scale. A reason for their size is that MOOCs are free for anyone to take. Here we describe the design, development, and teaching...

Five converging global trends – geo-awareness, geo-enablement, geotechnologies, citizen science, and storytelling– have the potential to offer geography a world audience – attention from education and society that may be unprecedented in the history of the discipline. Issues central to geography are now part of the global consciousness. Everyday ob...

Opportunities in using geospatial technologies as a meaningful and sustained part of education exist as never before. Most obvious are technological opportunities, centered on the evolution of GST to a web-based platform, including editable online maps that can be customized, analyzed, and shared on any device. Geospatial skills and approaches can...

Before widespread professional development programs were created to support classroom adoption of GIS technology and methods, a small but influential handful of science teachers not only learned how to use GIS but found ways of using it to drive deep scientific inquiry in the classroom. Because these educators were few in number, largely working on...

Spatial analysis in education through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools is a relatively recent phenomenon. Enterprising educators since 1990 have engaged in pedagogical and technological trailblazing to overcome numerous challenges to teach about GIS and teach with GIS. They have done so in a wide variety of settings, to students of all ag...

Learning and Teaching with Geomedia provides a theoretical and practical introduction to a field explicitly aimed at secondary education. The first section consists of three scientific papers introducing the dimensions of the emerging geoinformation society. The second section of the book is specifically dedicated to teacher trainers and teachers....

Three converging global trends – complex environmental and social challenges, the advent of easy-to-use geographic tools, and the geo-enabling of everyday devices – present the Geography educator with compelling new opportunities to use dynamic web mapping tools in instructional settings. The trends also make a strong case for why the tools and the...

This study analyzes the status of GIS in schools in thirty-three countries and proposes recommendations for advancing the implementation and effectiveness of GIS in secondary education from an international perspective. Thirty-three countries have been evaluated in the study to assess the global landscape of educational GIS by analyzing how GIS is...

This, the first publication to collate a broad international perspective on the pedagogical value of GIS technology in classrooms, offers an unprecedented range of expert views on the subject. Geographic Information Systems (GISs) are now ubiquitous and relatively inexpensive. They have revolutionized the way people explore and understand the world...

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Includes QR Codes Linked to Animated Maps, a Mapping Activity Site, or to an Interactive Webpage, Creating an Interactive Resource That Stays Relevant The book integrates competing philosophical views of the world: synthesis and analysis. These two approaches yield different results and employ different tools. This book considers both approaches t...

Selected Reviews, Spatial Mathematics

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Despite nearly 20 years of intensive investment by higher education, industry, primary and secondary teachers, youth and community leaders, government agencies, and non-profits organizations in geographic information systems (GIS) in education around the world, a GIS education research agenda has yet to be developed. This paper provides a rationale...

Arlinghaus, Sandra L. and Kerski, Joseph J. 2012. From Tissot to Google Earth: Sampling the Earth's Graticule. Solstice: An Electronic Journal of Geography and Mathematics, Vol. XXIII, No. 1. Ann Arbor: Institute of Mathematical Geography

This, the first publication to collate a broad international perspective on the pedagogical value of GIS technology in classrooms, offers an unprecedented range of expert views on the subject. Geographic Information Systems (GISs) are now ubiquitous and relatively inexpensive. They have revolutionized the way people explore and understand the world...

As the first decade of the twenty-first century comes to a close, it is clear that young people around the world have opportunities to learn in ways that are quite different from those of their parents and grandparents. The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has famously described this technologically interconnected world as flat (Friedman, 2...

The use of GIS in secondary education around the world is a relatively recent phenomenon. Settled almost entirely since 1990, the landscape is marked by pedagogical and technological trailblazing by enterprising educators who have overcome numerous challenges to teach about GIS and teach with GIS in a wide variety of settings, to students of all ag...