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2014 AAG Annual MeetingApril 8-11, 2014 | Tampa, FL
LearnGIS: A Novel, Top-down Approach to Learning about
GISAileen Buckley, Esri
aileen buckley | research cartographeresri | 380 new york street | redlands, ca 92373-
8100O: 909.793.2853 x2997 | C: 909.289.1798
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An interactive and engaging social
environment to help people learn how to
develop geographic knowledge and solve
spatial problems
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Goal
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Focused on questions and problems
Where?
Why there?
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A new introduction to what GIS is…
• Enables you to build knowledge and solve problems• Includes rich data sets and powerful analytical tools• Lets you creates maps and other useful information products
• Allows you to interact with data in a meaningful way
• And…perhaps most importantly…
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GIS helps you communicate your information and knowledge
“GIS condenses down all the data and our information and our knowledge and our science into a kind of language that we can easily understand—maps.” – Jack Dangermond
http://www.esri.com/about-esri/vision/jack_dangermond
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Office
Professional to Consumer GIS
Enterprise
Web
• Maps• Data• Analysis
Individual
Powered by . . .
Maps & Apps
DevicesDesktops
• Ready-to-use information
• Analysis in the cloud
• Online maps and layers
ArcGIS is Web GIS
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Approach
• Uses inquiry-based learning to enhance/enrich traditional approaches
• Focused on realistic spatial questions and geographic problems
• Leverages rich GIS datasets and analytical tools
• Uses online technology to enable you to use and share information and resources
• The social setting allows you to participate in the community
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Inquiry-based learning
• “Involvement leads to understanding”
• Useful application involves: - a context for questions- a framework for questions- different levels of questions
• Inquiry-based learning produces knowledge that can be widely applied
• Use of technology is focused on its application to enhance learning rather than learning about the technology itself
Case-based learning
Challenge-based learning
Community-based learning
Design-based learning
Game-based learning
Inquiry-based learningLand-based learning
Passion-based learning
Place-based learning
Problem-based learning
Project-based learning
Proficiency-based learning
Service-based learning
Studio-based learning
Team-based learning
Work-based learning
. . . and the new fave . . .
Zombie-based learning (look it up!)
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Complexity
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Inquiry implies a “want or need to know" premise,
so…
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Who is the audience?
• Self-motivated learners, such as:- Academic students who want or need to learn about GIS - Professionals who want or need to learn more about GIS- Managers who want to learn more about how GIS can be
used in their organization
• Teachers who want to get or share resources to teach GIS
• Map and GIS librarians who teach, formally or informally, about GIS
GIS Professionals Consumers“-ologists”
Developers Educators Students
Managers
GIS Librarians
Journalists
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Lesson example
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The Power of Maps
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The Power of Maps - Windows22
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The Power of Maps - Stories
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The Power of Maps - Analysis
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Get Started Now
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Spatial Problem Solving44
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Not a linear process—you iterate, diagnose, review, and backtrack as you make progress
Explore an issue & fram
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question
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anal
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spatial PROBLEM SOLVING
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Interpret the
results
Explore the issue to find out about important topics
Frame the questionor questions that youwant to investigate
Model the analysis approach Figure out the approach that will be used to generate the
results Identify assumptions that have a bearing on how you will
perform the analysis or what results will be generated Gather and understand the data Gather, manipulate, visualize, and explore meaningful and useful
geographic data
Perform the steps in the analysis Process the data analytically to draw out essential characteristics
Display and assess the results Manipulate and display the results graphically to reveal something interesting or useful Examine the results to identify and understand unusual or interesting patterns Determine if special considerations about the data, analysis methods, or mapping methods would alter the results
Understand the meaning of what you see on the maps, tables, graphs,
etc…
Make sense of these results
Evaluate whether the results provide a satisfactory explanation
or
answer to the spatial question or questions you asked
Share your findings with
others through thoughtfully-
presented geoenriched
online maps and apps
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Application areas
Aid & Development
Business
Defense & Intelligence
Education
Government
Health & Human Services
Mapping & Charting
Natural Resources
Public Safety
Transportation
Utilities & Communications
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Spatial questions – based on Andy Mitchell’s books
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Spatial Analysis - Lesson
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Concept topics – based on content in books
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Concept topics – based on content in books
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Online analysis
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Rich data sets
• Living Atlas• Landscape Layers• Elevation Layers• USGS historic topo quads
Analysis tools:•Summarize Elevation•Profile•Trace Downstream•Viewshed•Watershed
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Use Story Map templates
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Builder apps
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Include core topics from GIS&T BoK
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LearnGIS Body of Knowledge
Manipulate and display the
results in a way the
reveals the solution, i.e., the thing that is interesting
or useful about the
environment• Maps, graphs,
reports, information graphics
• Symbolization• Qualitative
thematic maps• Quantitative
thematic maps• Image maps
Deconstruct the environment into
constituent parts, then
gather meaningful and accurate data
about the labeled features, attributes, and
phenomena that we have
identified• GIS basics• The earth and earth
coordinates• Map scale• Map projections• Grid coordinate
systems• Land information• Geographic data and
primary data sources• Data quality and map
accuracy• Data modeling and
data manipulation
Process those data
analytically to draw out essential
characteristics and produce a
solution
• Analysis and geoprocessing
• Geometric measures
• Overlay• Analytical
Methods• Surface Analysis• Spatial statistics• Geostatistics• Data mining• Network analysis• Optimization• Location
allocation
Ask something interesting or useful about the
environment
• Learning objectives
• What• Where• How much• Why
Integrate the solution
into frameworks, workflows,
environments, or
processes
• GIS and maps in society and organizations
• GIS workflows• Coordinating
organizations• Organizations
structures• Organizational
procedures• GI system
operations• GI system
infrastructure
• Reading, analysis, interpretation
• Read a map• Read multiple
maps• Look for patterns• Look for
correspondence• Explain the
patterns or correspondence
Learn something interesting or useful about the
environment
Communicate what you
have learned to
others
• Maps, graphs, reports, information graphics
• Compilation and page construction (includes map elements and page layout)
• Symbolization• Production
and publication
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Consider Khan Academy Knowledge Map approach
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Knowledge Map for LearnGIS
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In the very near future…
• Release: Prior to UC in July• More…
- Lessons- Examples- Concept topics
• Enhancements for more community involvement
• Guided GIS Analysis
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aileen buckley | research cartographeresri | 380 new york street | redlands, ca 92373-8100
O: 909.793.2853 x2997 | C: 909.289.1798 | [email protected]