Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Helping Spread the Word: #GIS is STEM, Just Like Jack Says

In a recent ESRI blog, GIS is STEM!, post written by Jack Dangemond, he calls for GIS to be included in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)  education. Personally, GIS can be the glue linking disparate disciplines in the liberal arts, the sciences being one, in my mind, obvious benefactor. 

From ESRI's Education Manager, Joseph Kerski: Just as STEM disciplines share such goals as using the scientific method to solve problems, employing quantitative techniques,  and integrating technology, so too can GIS be used across these disciplines. GIS by its very nature is a multidisciplinary tool.  Therefore, students and educators using GIS in STEM understand  phenomena from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives.

You'll want to look at the pamphlet (Advancing STEM Education With GIS, From Aug 2012) linked to in the blog post and where I got the quote and photo.

I guess I'm posting this because I'm surprised that Jack needs to write such a post. Seems clear that GIS and using it to see phenomena, events,  relationships spatially can be many things for many disciplines. I guess I'm helping spread the word.