Geospatial Research and Information Laboratory<\/a>, which hosts the software site license. Through a website, it may be acquired for free by public, charter, private and home schools, in addition to nonprofit youth organizations.<\/p>\n\u201cUsing the software will help increase students\u2019 ability to acquire geospatial skills and enhance critical spatial thinking, which is a key tenet to all aspects of STEM learning,\u201d Manone said.<\/p>\n
Although the software itself and its emerging scientific field sound complicated, Manone said, students and their parents have good reason to want access through school.<\/p>\n
\u201cGeographic information systems and geospatial technologies are hot fields for job opportunities,\u201d Manone said. \u201cThis gives students the opportunity to get in with this new technology prior to getting to the university level.\u201d<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s not just hard-science jobs that are out there, Manone said. The technology is being used in \u201canything that deals with location-based information,\u201d from city planners to business marketing. \u201cIt\u2019s an emerging field that\u2019s going to provide for career paths in diverse areas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Teachers need not hesitate either, Manone said, because a variety of advances make the technology \u201cready to be used by K-12 institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives teachers the opportunity to dive into a world that they might not normally have access to,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t need months of training. The current version is intuitive and inviting for students and teachers to use together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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