The National Center for Rural Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Outreach brings together James Madison University's (JMU) long-standing focus on teacher education with educators in rural settings across the United States. The initial emphasis of the Center will be on helping teachers and students use geospatial technologies, such as geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS), and remote sensing, to help build their spatial reasoning and content knowledge in STEM areas.
The Center sponsored a workshop this summer at JMU from 17 to 28 July. 2006, bringing together rural educators for a two-week seminar on using geospatial technologies in the classroom. You can get more information by clicking the Summer Workshop link.
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2nd National Summit on GIS in Education. The Center will sponsor a national conference on the role of GIS in K-12 education from 26-27 June at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. Teachers, curriculum developers and researchers are all encourage to attend and contribute papers/sessions. Draft agenda posted 7 May 2009
1st National Summit on GIS in Education. Click the Agenda page for access to presentations from the first conference.
