My workshops and presentations at the 2024 AAG Geography Annual Meeting

My workshops and presentations at the 2024 AAG Geography Annual Meeting.  I hope these resources are very helpful to you during and also, long after the conference!

Esri exhibit:  WED – THU – FRI:    Our briefing with schedule and key resources:  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/briefings/d2c9ed6793854762a4801b1cdd1566f2 

Esri Education at AAG

(1)  Tue 16 Apr:  7:20 – 8:40 AM with Amy Rock, UCGIS.  Rm 301A 3rd Fl Hawaii Convention Center.  Teaching Ethics in GIS and Geography Courses:  My presentation:

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/034813a3e60640428d7ffed5261facd7   Teaching Ethics:  Why, How, and Implications. 

Teaching & Learning Ethics with Spatial Thinking & Geotech

(2)  Tue 16 Apr:  7:20-8:40 AM with Aileen Buckley:  Actionable Ethics in Cartography.   Rm 313A Hawaii Convention Center.  My comments: 

  1. Regarding a call to action: I think given the rapid advancement and impact of AI on not only cartography and GIS but on education and society, a 1 page statement about the benefits of AI in cartography education but also its challenges and cautions it raises would be valued by the community, would build on the MapMakers Mantra, and would be a doable actionable thing that this community could tackle in 2024.  Such a 1 page statement could include:  Benefits of Gen AI in creating mappable data (from AI powered feature extraction from imagery, and in creating field surveys as shown by Andrew Turner at the Fed GIS conf last month) but also cautions including (do people understand what is in the AI models in the same way as they understood what was in their own model builders in ArcGIS Pro? (and location privacy issues as the resolution of the imagery increases and location is increasingly shared across apps and mapping services).
  2. I would also like to share the ongoing discussion on data-and-society issues we write about weekly on https://spatialreserves.wordpress.com.
  3. Teaching & Learning Ethics with Spatial Thinking & Geotech

(3)  Tue 16 Apr:  8:30 opening then 9:00 keynote to 10:00 am followed by discussion and student papers:  Geospatial Software Usability:  From industry’s perspective to User’s Practice.   Rm 323C Hawaii Convention Center.  To support Dr Zhang’s Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure Initiative: Building High-Performance, Ethical, and Secured Geospatial Software:   OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, NSF. 

My Presentation:   https://storymaps.arcgis.com/briefings/35c53cfa93e84b58899d2601a5995000

Geospatial Software Evolution, Usability, Implications

My presentation outline:

  1. Why GIS and why spatial analysis in the first place?
  2. Why is this a key time to discuss these issues?   GIS, society, education, are all simultaneously and rapidly evolving.
  3. Stability and trust of GIS software and platform.  Despite repeated blogs and videos from 2000 to present predicting the “demise of GIS”.
  4. Pro and Online and usability and teachability.
  5. Implications of rapid evolution and arrival of modern GIS on curriculum, textbooks, programs.
  6. Apps & their sharing implications including how we assess student work.
  7. Platform & Web implications:  1.  From field tools > mapping > analysis > communications and 2.  Engaging non-geographers to geo-tools and methods.  Examples: social science, math, language arts.  3. Sharing methods, apps, maps, data, research results – via Web GIS.
  8. Ethical implications of mapping, use of spatial data, and spatial analysis (with nod to the next day’s panel).
  9. Cartographic evolution of GIS.
  10. GIS solutions and templates for specific audiences, and implications.
  11. GIS becoming embedded in other software (MS 365, Stats packages, Salesforce, PowerBI, etc).
  12. Library science/archivist/research concerns about rapid evolution and readability of apps– able to be consumed in the future?
  13. AI implications for GIS usability, tools, and interface.
  14. Implications of all this for teaching, research, and for the disciplines of GISc and Geography.

(4)  Wed 17 Apr:  09:00 – 10:20 AM  Career Mentoring II: Private Sector Career Paths:  Panel
Date: 4/17/2024    Time: 0900-1020   Room: 313B (O`ahu), Third Floor, Hawai’i Convention 

Career Pathways for multiple disciplines using Geotech and Geothinking: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7eedd711cc254ae8b228e32cb87354e3

Career Pathways Across Disciplines_ GeoTech + GeoThinking

(5)  Wed 17 Apr:  12:30-1:30 PM  Rm 323C Hawaii Conv Center.    GeoEthics Panel.   To support Dr Zhang’s Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure Initiative: Building High-Performance, Ethical, and Secured Geospatial Software:   OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, NSF. 

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/034813a3e60640428d7ffed5261facd7   Teaching Ethics:  Why, How, and Implications. 

Teaching & Learning Ethics with Spatial Thinking & Geotech

(6)  Wed 17 Apr:  3:00 – 4:20 PM:  Rm 323A Hawaii Conv Center.  Teaching Introductory GIS using ArcGIS Online.  

Teaching GIS – Using ArcGIS Online
Format:  PDF of slides; see above link.

(7)  Thu 18 Apr:  10:40 AM – 12:00 PM;  Rm 313 C Third Fl Hawaii Conv Ctr.   Mapping Your Career Pathway in Geography and Geotechnologies

Career Pathways for multiple disciplines using Geotech and Geothinking: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7eedd711cc254ae8b228e32cb87354e3

Career Pathways Across Disciplines_ GeoTech + GeoThinking

(8)  Thu 18 Apr:  3:00 PM – 4:20 PM:  Rm 323 A Hawaii Conv Ctr:   Teaching Modern GIS:  Approaches and Perspectives:  Panel session.  Hosts:  Brian Baldwin and Joseph Kerski.

Briefing to lead the discussion:   https://storymaps.arcgis.com/briefings/533932af7ccb4c4e8efa86c738437172

Teaching Modern GIS_ Approaches & Perspectives

with Kirk Oda – Tarrant County College  |  Drew Trgovac  – ASU    | Tara Vansell – Lindenwood University   | Amy Rock – Cal Poly Humboldt. 

(9)  Thu 18 Apr:  6:00 PM:   Geography Bowl Opening Remarks.  Tapa Ballroom and Tower 2nd Fl  Hilton Hawaiian Village.  

Provide 2 tough geography quiz questions for the group to ponder. 

(10)  Fri 19 Apr:  9:00 – 10:20 AM.  Rm 323 A  Hawaii Conv Center.  Collecting Field Data with 3 ArcGIS Field Apps.

Field Data Collection

Format:  PDF of slides that we are happy to share; see above link.

(11)  Fri 19 Apr:  10:40 AM – 12:00 PM.   Rm 323 A Hawaii Conv Center.  Enhancing Qualitative Social Science Research with GIS.

Our presentation:   https://storymaps.arcgis.com/briefings/d191bc0f99d44dfb9b84631f60619220

Enhancing Qualitative Social Science Research with GIS

 

(12)  Fri 19 Apr:  1:20 – 2:40 PM:  Rm 302 A  Makiki Room, 3rd Fl Hawaii Conv Center.   Future-Focused Education Strategies:  5 ways to teach about scale with interactive maps through GIS.

My presentation:  https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/88a6ed6da7044f1b98ff1455f9130f95 

5 Ways to Teach about Scale using ArcGIS Online