Dear students: Spaceship alert! It is not fair, but our survival depends on your ability to grasp complex situations that are influenced by multiple factors. You cannot possibly know everything, because conditions change, and each day brings new discoveries. We cannot let you wait until all relevant knowledge is in place.
The situations are numerous: population, food, clean water, political stability, personal liberty, group identity, economic development, environmental sustainability … and more. You must grasp complex ideas and how they relate to us: space and time, proximity and scale, cause and effect, systems and feedback, power and competition, values and tradeoffs, science and passion, creativity and inspiration, predictability and variation, permanence and mortality, privacy and sharing, law and justice.
We offer a tool to help: GIS. It lets you combine layers of data, explore here and there, see change over time, integrate different factors, analyze patterns, visualize relationships. If you can move a mouse, imagine what a bird sees, pick out a pattern, group similar things together and represent them, and ask a relevant question, you can learn and help us all.
We need you to start practicing, today, with easy tasks. It can be fun, too, seeing what you know about your neighborhood, and can learn about the larger community. Harder tasks will come soon, so we need you to practice. You can start at Esri’s K12 GIS Org, and your school can start at Esri’s ConnectED page. We depend on you. Learn quickly, please!
Charlie Fitzpatrick, Esri Education Manager
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The situations are numerous: population, food, clean water, political stability, personal liberty, group identity, economic development, environmental sustainability … and more. You must grasp complex ideas and how they relate to us: space and time, proximity and scale, cause and effect, systems and feedback, power and competition, values and tradeoffs, science and passion, creativity and inspiration, predictability and variation, permanence and mortality, privacy and sharing, law and justice.
We offer a tool to help: GIS. It lets you combine layers of data, explore here and there, see change over time, integrate different factors, analyze patterns, visualize relationships. If you can move a mouse, imagine what a bird sees, pick out a pattern, group similar things together and represent them, and ask a relevant question, you can learn and help us all.
We need you to start practicing, today, with easy tasks. It can be fun, too, seeing what you know about your neighborhood, and can learn about the larger community. Harder tasks will come soon, so we need you to practice. You can start at Esri’s K12 GIS Org, and your school can start at Esri’s ConnectED page. We depend on you. Learn quickly, please!
Charlie Fitzpatrick, Esri Education Manager
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