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Vision & ObjectivesThrough the network of the consortium of iGuess, teachers will be made aware of the possibilities of GIS. Interested teachers will be trained and become experts in GIS and thus pass on the knowledge in their schools and to their pupils. iGuess also will offer (to the trainees) free licences and software to learn and to use GIS in schools.

With the teacher training, iGuess wants to provide approaches and methods for teaching and learning with geo-information in education. Enquiry-based, ICT learning in schools will be endorsed by the use of GIS and it can be used in all subjects. Digital competence of students will be enhanced.

More and more schools will become convinced of the use of GIS without the costs of buying the software or the licences. GIS will appeal to the teachers, because of the examples of good practice (exercises) that will be included in the teacher training course and also because of the adaptation of the matter to the level of secondary school students.

Not only geography teachers will be convinced, but also other subjects will benefit. The themes and exercises can also lead to active citizenship, by producing and mapping data that will raise the awareness of youngsters, citizens and law-makers. (For more information see the Free Your River (FYR) and SPLASH projects (water research).

Through an updated website, information about approaches that support good practice will be disseminated. The mechanisms for quality control will be inherent in the exercises and the guidelines. The website and the training course will also be a platform to enhance educational quality and to exchange innovative products and good practice on a European level.

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