Sophia Linn

Colorado State University | CSU

Although Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are viewed as increasingly valuable for educational use, few tools have been developed to assess the effects of GIS on student learning (Barstow et al., 1994; Kerski, 2003). A joint project of the Colorado Geographic Alliance (COGA) and the USGS focuses on the devel-opment of evaluation tools to determi...

As computers become commonplace in the nation's schools, interactive maps are finding their way into the geography classroom. Students can use electronic atlases to access information as well as use authoring software to produce their own interactive maps. Does this change in media correspond to better geography education for our children? This art...