Call for an Agenda and Center for GIS Education Research

Year 2012, Volume: 2 Issue: 3, 254 - 288, 01.09.2012

Thomas R. Baker Joseph J. Kerskı Niem Tu Huynh Kathrin Viehrig And Sarah W. Bednarz

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• Biographical statements
• Thomas R. Bakeris an Education Manager at Esri where he focuses on improving GIS
• across instruction and educational technology integration strategies. His background as a
• science and technology instructor supports his leadership of the Esri Science, Technology,
• Engineering, & Math (STEM) Education initiative. He is an adjunct member of the University
• of Kansas research faculty and regularly writes and presents about learning with geospatial tools.
• Joseph J. Kerskiserves as an Education Manager at Esri, focusing on developing curricular
• resources that use GIS technology, fostering partnerships to support GIS in instruction,
• communicating about the benefits of GIS in education, and conducting research in the
• implementation and effectiveness of GIS in education. A geographer by training, he has served
• as Geographer in three federal agencies and teaches GIS at the University of Denver. Niem Tu Huynh
• (AAG). She is part of a two-year project, ‘Establishing a road map for large-scale improvement
• of K-12 education in the geographical sciences’. Prior to joining the AAG, she was an Assistant
• Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas State University – San Marcos. In this
• position, she taught undergraduate courses as well as graduate geographic education and
• technology courses. For her technology integration in the classroom, she won the Face-to-Face
• Category in the 2011 teaching with Sakai Innovation Award.
• Kathrin Viehrigcompleted the European Teacher Course for primary and lower secondary
• school as well as a supplementary examination in Intercultural Education/Foreigner Pedagogy at
• the University of Education Karlsruhe. She spent her semester abroad at the University of
• Auckland, New Zealand. She is at the Heidelberg University of Education since 2007. At the
• moment, her main areas of research are GIS didactics and geographic competencies. Since
• , she is also in the second phase of teacher education, teaching at a school in Leimen St. Ilge.
• Sarah W. Bednarzis a Professor of Geography and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in
• the College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University. She is Co-chair of an NSF-funded
• project to lay out a road map for efforts to improve geography education at a large scale
• over the coming decade.