Workshop: Geography in the 21st Century

本次研讨会的重点是“地理学在21世纪世纪”的总体目标，汇集了来自该领域的有远见的思想家，围绕以下问题讨论了广泛的主题：地理研究中的哪些专题领域将成为近期和中期最重要的未来？世纪的研究将由来自一个学科的单个研究人员或研究人员群体主导，还是多研究者、跨学科的努力更好地服务于主导的主题领域？我们如何有效、高效、快速地将前沿研究转移和整合到教育竞技场？什么是有前途的技术领域，将促进地理研究和教学？我们如何培训教师来培训其他教师使用在以计算机为基础的信息社会中变得可用的资源和技术？最终，我们的愿景是设计和开发一个国家地理学习网络，将促进上述每个问题的答案的实施？讲习班将请选定的个人编写一份简短的介绍性发言，以帮助指导关于每个专题的一般性讨论。一般讨论将被录音，原始贡献者，沿着其他两名志愿者，将扩大原始文件，包括研讨会讨论的精华。这些单独的报告将由研讨会协调员编辑和合并，以产生一份白色文件，分发给NSF，并提供给美国地理学家协会，国家地理教育理事会的成员，以及其他学术或非学术团体或个人谁表达了对该主题的兴趣。这份白色文件将作为美国地理学家协会试图开发一个基于网络的国家地理学习网络的中心规划文件。

This workshop focuses on the topic of 'Geography in the 21st Century' with the overall objective of bringing together a collection of visionary thinkers from the field to discuss a broad array of topics around the following questions: What topical areas in geographic research will emerge as the most important in the near and mid-distant future? Will research in the 21st Century be dominated by single researchers or groups of researchers from one discipline or will multi-investigator, cross-disciplinary efforts better serve the dominant topical areas? How do we effectively, efficiently, and quickly transfer and integrate cutting-edge research into the educational arena? What are promising technological areas that will facilitate geographic research and teaching? How do we train teachers to train other teachers to use the resources and technologies that are becoming available in a computer-based information society? Ultimately, the vision is to design and develop a National Geography Learning Network that will facilitate the implementation of answers to each of the above questions? For the workshop, selected individuals will be asked to prepare a brief introductory statement to help guide general discussion on each topic. General discussion will be taped and the original contributors, along with two other volunteers, will enlarge the original paper to include the essence of workshop discussion. These individual reports will be edited and combined by the workshop coordinator to produce a White Paper for distribution to NSF and to be made available to members of the Association of American Geographers, the National Council for Geographic Education, and to other academic or non-academic bodies or individuals who express an interest in the topic. The White Paper will be taken as a central planning document for attempts by the Association of American Geographers to develop a web-based National Geography Learning Network.