Over the last three decades the environment, society, and GIScience have all changed dramatically. GIScience education has likewise evolved, but the race to keep up never ends. We invite participants to join an expanding community effort to build open GIScience learning materials that can be adapted to meet different educational needs and evolve with the constantly changing world.
In this workshop, we will work with participants to create GIScience teaching materials to solve applied problems of their choosing. We will briefly present milestones from an ongoing collaborative project between the UCSB Center for Spatial Studies and Esri and introduce participants to our approach to developing content for the GIS classroom. We will then invite participants to work with our team to develop teaching materials using our framework and resources. Working in small groups with our team members, participants will workshop their applied GIS problem, link that problem to GIScience concepts and pedagogical objectives, and begin to storyboard their lessons.
Participants will also engage in collective discussion of the ethical lessons that could be drawn from their problem and highlighted for students. Beyond this workshop, we invite participants to continue to collaborate with us, complete the development of their lessons, and share their lessons through an online community platform. Participants that chose to share their materials will receive full acknowledgement for their work and be highlighted as project contributors.
Before arriving for the workshop, we ask participants to dedicate about 2 hours reviewing shared materials and preparing their applied GIS problem.
