Norway is a pioneer in establishing GIS in lower education because it made GIS a compulsory part of geography and geoscience. Norway's schools have met challenges related to technology, time, learning, and skills. As Norwegian schools in general are well equipped with computers and wireless Internet, and the teachers have free access to GIS-basedWeb applications and data, the major technical obstacles for the first generation of integrated use of digital maps in schools have been overcome. This chapter includes a discussion of some of the implications of the 2006 revision of the Norwegian national curriculum. Prosperous case examples of a beta version of a new Web atlas for Norway as well as the more established Google Earth are presented. As very few Norwegian school teachers may possess the necessary competence to create GIS-based teaching material, we believe that the use of Web-based atlases constitute an important first step toward a successful implementation of GIS in upper secondary education. This first step would not need major changing in existing teaching practice but may challenge some teachers to look at their subject through new spatial lenses.
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Rød, J. K., Andersland, S., & Knudsen, A. F. (2012). Norway: National curriculum mandates and the promise ofweb-based GIS applications. In International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning with GIS in Secondary Schools (Vol. 9789400721203, pp. 191–199). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2120-3_21
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