OK, teachers. Raise your hand if Alfie Kohn has ever set foot in your classroom and witnessed you drilling your students with rote memorization or handing out worksheets all day.
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A principal aim of geospatial analysis is examining and understanding change over space and time. One of the simplest yet most powerful things you can do in ArcGIS desktop or in ArcGIS Online is to visualize change over time by studying change based on different basemaps created on different dates.
For example, I recently conducted a GIS workshop for educators at Northeast Junior College in Sterling, Colorado. While on campus, in ArcMap, I added satellite imagery as well as the USGS topographic map. I determined the date of the topographic map (1971) by accessing the USGS Map Store. I found the date of the satellite imagery (2009) by using the Identify tool in ArcMap on the imagery layer. I used the swipe tool so I could scroll back and forth across the map to easily compare the different basemap images.
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In response to the growing importance of environmentalism, schools are ramping up their commitment to the environment by creating more environmental-focused academic programs and offering greener living and learning facilities.
Factors that were taken into account for the Princeton Review report include “how much local food is served, how much waste is diverted from landfills and whether transportation options such as free bus passes or car shares are offered.”
Here is a list of the 18 most eco-friendly colleges in the U.S.:
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Landsat is coming! Esri is preparing terabytes of data for access thru ArcGIS Online. Earlier this year, Esri Federal User Conference and Esri Partner Conference audiences saw sneak previews. You can check out the coming access by watching a few minutes of video. and scroll down the transcript to 3:13, then watch the segment from 3:13-6:58.
As the movie shows, Landsat data in ArcGIS Online will allow educators and students to change over time from 1975-2005, in your choice of application: specific web browser app, ArcGIS.com Map Viewer (including on iPad), ArcGIS Explorer Online, ArcGIS Explorer Desktop, or ArcMap. You’ll be able to overlay layers and conduct analyses against them. the effects of climate change, urbanization, deforestation, but also the occasional re-establishment of native habitat.
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For every charter school recently opened in Harlem, two Catholic schools have had to close because of financial trouble, observes Sol Stern in City Journal. Its a pattern that is mirrored across New York City. Since inner-city Catholic schools have historically provided lifesaving educational choices for minorities and the poor, he writes, the result has been a net loss of good schools for Gotham.
Sterns piece profiles Harlems St. Aloysius School, a pre-K through eighth-grade Catholic school, which has essentially charterized itself to survive. The schools board last year broke away from the New York archdiocese and reconstituted itself as an independent Catholic school. St. Aloysius is now something like a charter school within the city’s Catholic education sector, Stern writes.
St. Aloysius