Using GIS to Prepare for Life After High School

This video, from the 2021 Esri Education Summit, provides three presentations on how GIS prepares youth for challenges beyond high school. In the first presentation, Bob Kolvoord explores the measurement of cognitive and behavioral changes in students from GIS use. Kolvoord describes a multi-institutional study on this topic, a geospatial semester for high school students offered by James Madison University, and skills that students gained from using GIS. In the second presentation, Katie James describes the development of a design framework for GIS-infused content courses. James describes the Chicago Geospatial Semester course for high school students, learning outcomes, a research project on this topic, case studies, and more. In the final presentation, David Stasney describes geospatial learning in rural schools. Stasney describes GIS at Spokane Community College, the Northeast Washington Geospatial Environmental Technician Education Project, recruiting high school students, GIS workshops, and more.

The video recording runs 44:54 minutes in length. Additional videos from the summit are available to view separately.