Denmark: Early adoption and continued progress of GIS for education

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Danish geography teachers have used geography-oriented IT programs since the early 1990s, and thus have been one of the pioneer subject-areas to introduce IT to the classroom. One of the first programs, called Hefaistos, could display a computer model of plate tectonics, where the localization and depth of earthquakes and volcanoes could be studied. Other programs could construct age pyramids, make demographic prognoses, and simulate weather stations. Many of these early programs were conceived and constructed by individual enthusiasts, who created everything from the initial idea to the finished product. This meant that product development depended too much on individual initiative. If, instead, basic standard programs were readily available, enthusiastic teachers would have more time and space for teaching experiments. This was realized in 1998 when the Remote Sensing program Science Image became one of the standards in digital image processing. It was a very efficient teaching tool that could make animations of various Meteosat images and "cloud movies" of global wind systems with students controlling the playing speed of the movie. Such up-to-date, topical satellite images entered the classroom via satellite or the Internet, and this aroused curiosity and created an interest in studying such digital images in class.

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Jensen, T. P. (2012). Denmark: Early adoption and continued progress of GIS for education. In International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning with GIS in Secondary Schools (Vol. 9789400721203, pp. 73–82). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2120-3_8

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