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The History and Application of GIS in Educationby Tom Baker, KanCRN Systems SpecialistStandards for Excellence A leading advocate of GIS in K-12 education has been the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). In a report to the ESRI User's Conference of 1998, Palladino, NCGIA's Education Project Manager, outlined the challenges and benefits of GIS in K-12 classroom. Among the positives he suggests that now there are easier, more cost efficient methods for obtaining GIS software, hardware, and data sets. Among the challenges, Palladino cites an unequal distribution of computing resources among schools, and a lack of pre-service teacher training that includes spatial literacy, non-traditional teaching techniques, and computer skills training (Palladino, 1998; Palladino, 1994). The efforts of the NCGIA are worth noting, as it is one of the few organizations that have attempted to establish and promote a scope and sequence of Geography and GIS Education, with their Core Curriculum materials. Additionally, NCGIA is facilitating the development of the Secondary Education Project (SEP), a curriculum designed to develop and pool instructional materials and disseminate them through teacher workshops (NCGIA SEP, no date). Similar efforts have been undertaken by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) to create a standardized GIS curriculum. However, this curriculum is actually intended for GIS practitioners (Obermeyer & Onsurd, no date). Contents:
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