Geospatial technologies in geography education / edited by Rafael de Miguel González, Karl Donert & Kostis Koutsopoulos.

Introduction
Chapter 1 Infusing Educational Practice with Three Implementations of Web GIS
Chapter 2 Implementing geospatial thinking in education
Chapter 3 Computer games in support for spatial learning purposes: lessons learned from two project based school projects on sustainable spatial planning with Minecraft in the Netherlands
Chapter 4 Youthmetre
Chapter 5 Brain as GIS maker
Chapter 6 Technologies for teaching geography: Google Earth as a resource for the classroom
Chapter 7 Approaches from informal geography to close the gap from communication, education and geographic information into a digital world
Chapter 8 GIS in secondary education
Chapter 9 Geospatial challenges and TPACK model
Chapter 10 EarthCaching and motivation: EarthCaching as a way to engage learners with special places in nature
Chapter 11 Spatial Thinking Ability Acquisition through Geospatial Technologies for Lifelong Learning
Chapter 12 Grasping the global with Geographic Information Systems
Chapter 13 Teaching geospatial competences by digital activities and e-learning
Chapter 14 Geographies of the Anthropocene: Geoethics and Disaster Risk Reduction tehcnologies applied to Mediterranean case studies
Chapter 15 Relational geospatial technologies and geospatial challenges of the 21st century
Chapter 16 Open Innovation in Geospatial Revolution
Chapter 17 Cartography skills in the primary education
Index

This book addresses new pedagogies focusing on the use of geospatial technologies and geomedia in the classroom. Today, geospatial technologies are substantially influencing geography teaching and learning, particularly in secondary education. Web-GIS, virtual globes, storytelling, maps and apps for mobile devices are transforming the nature and design of geography curricula, instructional processes, didactics, resources and assessments. Undoubtedly, geography is among those school subjects that have benefited most from the implementation of new technologies in the classroom. Geospatial technologies can be used to develop inquiry-based learning or project-based learning pedagogies and help students to acquire spatial reasoning and spatial citizenship skills in the context of education for sustainable development. This book highlights a range of initiatives, projects and educational practices - from several European countries and settings - related to geospatial challenges in geography education. Given its scope, it will be equally appealing to scientists, students and teachers of geography and other fields using geospatial technologies and geomedia