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Introduction to GeoITS
GeoITS is based on four premises:
- New interactive technologies makes it easier to create environments
in which students can learn by doing.
- Technologies can help learners visualize difficult to understand
concepts.
- New technologies provide access to a vast array of information.
- Technology is a tool that can enhance student understandings and
performance when integrated into the curriculum and used in accordance
with educational research .
Goals for GeoITS participants are:
- to understand key issues in earth system science;
- to understand and use research methodologies in earth system science
contexts (test hypotheses, designing experiments, collecting data,
conducting field research etc);
- to retrieve, manipulate, and think critically about data and correct
and proper ways to represent data;
- to use spatial thinking skills;
- to use spatial tools such as GIS and RS in conducting research;
- to develop problem based, technology rich, TEKS and Standards-based
activities for learners.
The GeoITS goals for Summer 2002...
This summer we will design and develop a problem-based learnin g (PBL)
module that is focused on local hydrology problems in College Station
and dissemenated through the Internet.
Together, we will explore the nature of science, pedagogy, hydrology,
the use of information technology to develop problem-based learning
modules.
The main focus of this summers workshop was to develop the PBL module
"It's Raining, It's Pouring -- A PBL in
the Geosciences.
Here is the original PBL
senario...
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