Luc Zwartjes is a geography teacher from Belgium who has developed a deep interest in the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and GPS (Global Positioning Systems) with his students. Luc’s work with his students using GIS is a fabulous example of a passionate teacher working with students on real-world problems using sophisticated technology to create engaging tasks.

As well as an excellent overview of the potential of GIS in the classroom, Luc offers some subtle yet profound insights into the role of technology, the teacher, and the student in a 21st century classroom… providing a bird’s eye view of both education and the planet.

Links relevant to this episiode:

• ESRI - GISsoftware
• The Eduspace project
• Eduspace Article written by Luc for the IGU conference in Brisbane (1.5Mb PDF)
• Google Earth
• GE Pro qualifications for schools to apply for 2 free Google Earth Pro licenses (PDF)

Some useful books for learning more about GIS

• Exploring the Dynamic Earth (with worked-out projects for use with ArcView 3.2x)
• Mapping Global cities
• Mapping our world
• GIS for everyone

As always, comments are welcome. Please pass this podcast on to any geography teachers you might know. If they won’t listen to a podcast, burn them a CD… but they ought to hear this episode!

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