Cartography and maps support the continuous rising of the awareness of the power of spatial data,which further lays a foundation for the popularity of various location based services and applications in society.Cartog...Cartography and maps support the continuous rising of the awareness of the power of spatial data,which further lays a foundation for the popularity of various location based services and applications in society.Cartography and Geographic Information System education has been a core activity in the cartographic academic community for knowledge creation and transfer in higher education institutions.Maps in primary and high schools play a unique role across disciplines to build the spatial thinking capacities of young generations.Over years educators train students via lectures and lab works into which digital technologies are gradually incorporated.The COVID-19 pandemic has been fast forwarding our pace to employ digital technologies in online teaching and learning.Teachers are passively or proactively adapted to conduct their teaching online and redesign their lectures and assessments of students’performance.On another side,students are getting used to online learning even more quickly with various digital devices in an interactive and collective way.It creates opportunities for cartographic GIS educators to build a body of knowledge for cartography which can be used to build open source educational resources systematically.Further flexible curriculum can be designed and implemented for professional and continuous education and training at various levels.Future education of cartography and GIS can improve map literacy and make a sustainable education.展开更多
Gradient and divergence are the basis of electromagnetic field theory, and have been a special difficulty in mathematical theory. Understanding these concepts requires strong spatial and abstract thinking. In this pap...Gradient and divergence are the basis of electromagnetic field theory, and have been a special difficulty in mathematical theory. Understanding these concepts requires strong spatial and abstract thinking. In this paper, through the graphical and quantitative methods, the significance of gradient representation is clearly displayed in the form of graphics.展开更多
The concept of the divergence is fundamental in electromagnetic field theory, yet they are especially difficult mathematical concepts. Understanding this concept requires strong spatial and abstract thinking. When tea...The concept of the divergence is fundamental in electromagnetic field theory, yet they are especially difficult mathematical concepts. Understanding this concept requires strong spatial and abstract thinking. When teaching, through the graphical and quantitative methods presented herein, the significance of the divergence is displayed by a quantitative method for the first time. Through these methods, the concepts of the divergence can be grasped more easily. These explanations will be helpful for students to strengthen the understanding of this concept and has a certain reference significance.展开更多
A growing number of educators worldwide have become convinced that geotechnologiesincluding geographic information systems(GIS),global positioning systems(GPS),and remote sensingare key technologies to prepare stude...A growing number of educators worldwide have become convinced that geotechnologiesincluding geographic information systems(GIS),global positioning systems(GPS),and remote sensingare key technologies to prepare students to be tomorrow’s decision makers.Grappling with local,regional,and global issues of the 21st century requires people who think spatially and who can use geotechnologies.Some educators teach geotechnologies as a discipline,emphasising skills.Other educators use geotechnologies as a tool to teach content,such as geography,history,environmental studies,Earth Science,biology,mathematics,economics and other disciplines.Issues such as traffic,population growth,urban sprawl,energy,water,crime,human health,biodiversity and sustainable agriculture are growing in complexity,exist at every scale and increasingly affect people’s everyday lives.Each of these issues has a spatial component.Drivers for geotechnology education include educational content standards,constructivism,the school-to-career movement,active learning,citizenship education,authentic practice and assessment,interdisciplinary education,community connections and a sustained,increasing demand for GIS professionals.Digital Earth is an ideal framework for contextualising domains of inquiry.The Digital Earth community can have a significant impact on the growth of geotechnologies in education,and conversely,the growth of geotechnologies in education and society can foster the forward movement of Earth systems concepts.展开更多
The emergence of new technological tools for territorial analysis,such as cloud-based GIS,or GIS viewers,compels us to closely examine its usefulness in geographic education. Specifically,it raises the professors and ...The emergence of new technological tools for territorial analysis,such as cloud-based GIS,or GIS viewers,compels us to closely examine its usefulness in geographic education. Specifically,it raises the professors and teachers’ questions: what to teach? how to teach? and what will students learn? This research responds to these three questions by interviewing Spanish experts who know how to use these tools to teach geography at university and secondary school levels. The Delphi technique was applied to achieve this,which established consensus and led to the following results from experts’ own experience: (1) that GIS help to understand territory in an experiential and non-memoristic way and (2) they enable the development of spatial thinking. This paper concludes that changes in methodologies and integrate technical knowledge into teacher training are needed.展开更多
文摘Cartography and maps support the continuous rising of the awareness of the power of spatial data,which further lays a foundation for the popularity of various location based services and applications in society.Cartography and Geographic Information System education has been a core activity in the cartographic academic community for knowledge creation and transfer in higher education institutions.Maps in primary and high schools play a unique role across disciplines to build the spatial thinking capacities of young generations.Over years educators train students via lectures and lab works into which digital technologies are gradually incorporated.The COVID-19 pandemic has been fast forwarding our pace to employ digital technologies in online teaching and learning.Teachers are passively or proactively adapted to conduct their teaching online and redesign their lectures and assessments of students’performance.On another side,students are getting used to online learning even more quickly with various digital devices in an interactive and collective way.It creates opportunities for cartographic GIS educators to build a body of knowledge for cartography which can be used to build open source educational resources systematically.Further flexible curriculum can be designed and implemented for professional and continuous education and training at various levels.Future education of cartography and GIS can improve map literacy and make a sustainable education.
文摘Gradient and divergence are the basis of electromagnetic field theory, and have been a special difficulty in mathematical theory. Understanding these concepts requires strong spatial and abstract thinking. In this paper, through the graphical and quantitative methods, the significance of gradient representation is clearly displayed in the form of graphics.
文摘The concept of the divergence is fundamental in electromagnetic field theory, yet they are especially difficult mathematical concepts. Understanding this concept requires strong spatial and abstract thinking. When teaching, through the graphical and quantitative methods presented herein, the significance of the divergence is displayed by a quantitative method for the first time. Through these methods, the concepts of the divergence can be grasped more easily. These explanations will be helpful for students to strengthen the understanding of this concept and has a certain reference significance.
文摘A growing number of educators worldwide have become convinced that geotechnologiesincluding geographic information systems(GIS),global positioning systems(GPS),and remote sensingare key technologies to prepare students to be tomorrow’s decision makers.Grappling with local,regional,and global issues of the 21st century requires people who think spatially and who can use geotechnologies.Some educators teach geotechnologies as a discipline,emphasising skills.Other educators use geotechnologies as a tool to teach content,such as geography,history,environmental studies,Earth Science,biology,mathematics,economics and other disciplines.Issues such as traffic,population growth,urban sprawl,energy,water,crime,human health,biodiversity and sustainable agriculture are growing in complexity,exist at every scale and increasingly affect people’s everyday lives.Each of these issues has a spatial component.Drivers for geotechnology education include educational content standards,constructivism,the school-to-career movement,active learning,citizenship education,authentic practice and assessment,interdisciplinary education,community connections and a sustained,increasing demand for GIS professionals.Digital Earth is an ideal framework for contextualising domains of inquiry.The Digital Earth community can have a significant impact on the growth of geotechnologies in education,and conversely,the growth of geotechnologies in education and society can foster the forward movement of Earth systems concepts.
文摘The emergence of new technological tools for territorial analysis,such as cloud-based GIS,or GIS viewers,compels us to closely examine its usefulness in geographic education. Specifically,it raises the professors and teachers’ questions: what to teach? how to teach? and what will students learn? This research responds to these three questions by interviewing Spanish experts who know how to use these tools to teach geography at university and secondary school levels. The Delphi technique was applied to achieve this,which established consensus and led to the following results from experts’ own experience: (1) that GIS help to understand territory in an experiential and non-memoristic way and (2) they enable the development of spatial thinking. This paper concludes that changes in methodologies and integrate technical knowledge into teacher training are needed.
