Sammendrag
The latest school reform in Norway is called the Knowledge Promotion Reform 2006 (K06) and is supposed to be implemented autumn 2006. The reform applies to curriculum for upper secondary schools and explicitly says that pupils shall know how to use digital maps and geographical information systems (GIS). In this paper, we will discuss what a GIS is and present some of the GIS and GIS-data viewers available. We will also identify some of the main hindrances that geography teachers must overcome in order to integrate the use of GIS in their teaching. Finally, we will forward some recommendations on what kind of GIS should be used in upper secondary school teaching and some examples on how. Our point of departure is threefold. Firstly, we assume that schools have low budgets. The software should therefore be free or at a low cost. Secondly, as many geography teachers may not possess a high level of technical skills, the software should be easy to install and use. The most important but also most difficult aspect to assess is our third point of departure: the software should be useful for the teachers, that is making teaching easier, and for the pupils, that is resulting in better learning.
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