The Concept of Developing Geoinformatics Skills in Teaching at Primary and Secondary Schools
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Geospatial technologies are an essential part of a wide range of disciplines. As tools they allow us to solve geographical problems more easily. Moreover, they are gradually being implemented into education at primary and secondary schools. Geospatial technologies help pupils to understand geography more easily and develop map skills, as well as technical skills. We define this fusion of such skills as geoinformation skills (Mísařová et al., 2023). Geoinformation skills include reading, selecting, using, creating, and sharing geospatial data and digital maps. This theory is based on previous works related to map skills (Havelková & Hanus, 2019). The paper aims to introduce the concept of the development of geoinformation skills at primary and secondary schools. This methodological support for teachers responds to the lack of support for the development of these skills not only in geography education in Czechia as well as abroad. The concept includes a matrix of learning tasks, which are organized according to individual skills and levels. The concept is intended especially for pre-service and in-service teachers of geography at primary and secondary schools, but also for the creators of national and school curriculum or teachers in non-formal education. The methodology provides the teacher with instructions for more effective teaching and presents the possibilities of 43 inclusion and use of these technologies. An essential part of the methodology is the definition of key terms related to geoinformation technologies (e.g. GIS, remote sensing, GNSS), but also a discussion of the benefits and barriers of geoinformation technologies in teaching and the implementation of geoinformation technologies in curricular documents. |