{"id":1441,"date":"2013-01-02T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T18:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2013-01-02T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T18:04:50","slug":"gis-is-stem","status":"publish","type":"insider","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/gis-is-stem","title":{"rendered":"GIS is STEM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s youth are tomorrow&#8217;s decision makers, and an understanding of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geography\" target=\"_blank\">geography<\/a> and the use of geospatial technology will be crucial to helping them make good decisions that affect global health and community life. Unfortunately, geography has always been sort of an \u201cunderdog\u201d in our educational system; it\u2019s been misunderstood, generalized, and sometimes ignored. Even today, as we see increased focus on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/STEM_fields\" target=\"_blank\">STEM<\/a> in education, we frequently see geography completely disregarded as a component of STEM.<br \/>\nThis is very unfortunate. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Geography touches heavily on all of these disciplines, and the application of geospatial technology helps us to better understanding cross-disciplinary phenomena and solve important problems. GIS, GPS, and remote sensing can be used to simultaneously engage students in science, technology, engineering, and math.<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/library\/ebooks\/advancing-stem-education-with-gis.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1717\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2013\/01\/STEM_ebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>To overlook geography as a critical component of STEM flies in the face of the goals of STEM\u2014to improve education, the work force, and national competitiveness. We need to work together as a community and get geography back in to STEM. The geospatial community and larger geography community have responded in number of ways. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Geographic<\/a> has organized a group called the <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/111346977689698485452\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">Geo-Literacy Coalition<\/a>, with the goal of raising awareness about the importance of a <a href=\"http:\/\/education.nationalgeographic.com\/education\/geoliteracy\/?ar_a=1\" target=\"_blank\">geo-literate<\/a> population and the need to invest in geography education. More people in the GIS community need to support the efforts of the Geo-Literacy Coalition as well as other efforts to recognize the critical importance of geography in STEM.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free e-book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/library\/ebooks\/advancing-stem-education-with-gis.pdf\">Advancing STEM Education with GIS<\/a> [PDF]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esri-insider"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GIS is STEM!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/gis-is-stem\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GIS is STEM!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today&#8217;s youth are tomorrow&#8217;s decision makers, and an understanding of geography and the use of geospatial technology will be crucial to helping them make good decisions that affect global health and community life. 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