S T ON GIS H E T - Bucknell UniversityFive (5) Categories of Spatial Skills 1. Disembedding 2....

Diana Stuart Sinton University of Redlands

SOME THOUGHTS ON GIS IN HIGHER EDUCATION TODAY

GIS & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum Bucknell University November 17, 2012

• Evolving K-12 educational outcomes • Booming interest in “Spatial”

• Web-based maps and Data Magical Thinking

• a few models for GIS implementation

Revised curricular expectations

graphics that accompany “informational texts”


FedViews by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (2009)


revised National Geography Standards, 2012

Growth of “Spatial”

Spatial thinking is the ability to visualize and interpret location, position, distance, direction, relationships, movement, and change, over space (Sinton, 2011a).

Sinton, D. S. (2011a). Spatial Thinking, p. 733-744 in Stoltman, J. (ed.), 21st Century Geography: A Reference Handbook. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.


www.spatialcitizenship.org


http://www.spatial.ucsb.edu/events/STATCC/


http://www.spatialroundtable.com/post.cfm?entry=envisioning-the-spatial-university

http://spatiallearning.org/

One Type of “Spatial”

Five (5) Categories of Spatial Skills 1. Disembedding 2. Spatial Visualization 3. Mental Rotation 4. Spatial Perception 5. Perspective Taking

Uttal, D., et al. (2012), The Malleability of Spatial Skills: A Meta-Analysis of Training Studies. Psychological Bulletin.


Uttal, D., et al. (2012), The Malleability of Spatial Skills: A Meta-Analysis of Training Studies. Psychological Bulletin.


Five (5) Categories of Spatial Skills 1. Disembedding 2. Spatial Visualization 3. Mental Rotation 4. Spatial Perception 5. Perspective Taking


http://serc.carleton.edu/earthandmind/posts/interdisciplina.html


http://serc.carleton.edu/earthandmind/posts/interdisciplina.html

“Interesting”


Standardized Score on Spatial Tests


Wai, J., Lubinski, D., & Benbow, C. P. (2009). Spatial ability for STEM domains: Aligning over fifty years of cumulative psychological knowledge solidifies its importance. Journal of Educational Psychology, 101, 817-835.

GIS & Geography in Higher Ed Today

Traditional venues : • geography and geomatics • planning • natural resources management • environmental sciences

Emerging venues: • community colleges • liberal arts & sciences colleges • social science disciplines • humanities disciplines • Schools of Education • Professional Schools (Business, Law, Medicine) • programs in Intelligence, Law Enforcement, Security


Dominant Reasons: • the marketplace • conducting research • competition for students & between programs • managing the business of the University

Secondary Reasons: Enhancing teaching & learning experiences

• critical thinking • quantitative literacy • visualization & graphicacy • service learning • environmental sustainability • spatial literacy • use of 21st century technologies

Models of Implementation

and Support

and Instruction

Geography Dept. faculty

with expertise

Stand-alone GIS Center

GIS Center part of Library & Information

Services

Student Interns

GIS Center, most strongly

affiliated with one or more departments

and/or areas of expertise

Instructional Technologist with Former Expertise

Instructional Technologist with Assigned Duties and Emerging

Expertise Post-Doc Fellows/Staff

Post-Bac Fellows/Staff

GIS Specialists, affiliated with a Dept.

Grant-support instructor/researcher Local/community “expert”

becomes adjunct

Adjuncts

Faculty leading class, fellow faculty as students, other

students as support

Web-Based Maps

Map Mashup: Jazz & Blues at UoR

Kathy Ogren, Johnston Center for Integrative Studies & History Department, UoR

Data Magical Thinking

Can we use GIS to map human consciousness?

Student Scholarship

Steve Benzek, MS GIS Cohort 12, 2008 Alyssa King, MS GIS Cohort 14, 2009

SILAS: SPATIALLY INTERACTIVE L ITERATURE

ANALYSIS SYSTEM

flickr

Peer review opportunities

New ideas for service learning

Spatial Analysis

Understanding Place

Visualization, Communication

MBA, GIS Emphasis

Inland Empire Business Atlas

Moenius, housing analysis

expanded

Business GIS curricula

McIntyre, biodiversity

Larsen, early Christian texts and monasticism

Tilton, urban patterns

Bernardini, archaeology

Mitchell, school segregation

MA Ed, Curriculum & Instruction:

Spatial Literacy

RUSD: Citrus Valley High School

the Redlands Institute

GeoDesign

Mini-Mapping workshops

MS GIS

Lyons, watershed modeling

Sarkar, logistics networks

Glendening, forensics

Stelle, marine mammals

Ogren, jazz and blues

Wuhs, globalization and local politics

a Spatially-Infused Learning Community

Malcolm, endangered species

Glover, Lebu migration in Africa

Thorson, public policy analyses

Institute for Spatial Economic Analysis

Klooster, migration patterns


What is Spatial Literacy?

The confident and competent use of maps, mapping, and spatial thinking to address ideas, situations, and problems within daily life, society, and the world around us. (Sinton, 2011b)

Sinton, D. S. (2011b). Making the case for GIS in higher education, p. 17-36 in Unwin, D., N. Tate, K. Foote and D. Di Biase (eds.), in Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education. London: John Wiley & Sons (UK).

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