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Grasping an understanding of the global is a crucial element of geography scholarship. This chapter examines how geospatial applications can be used in school geography is to develop young people’s understanding at a planetary level. Despite the proliferation of virtual globes and other such geospatial tools in everyday use, their role to explicitly teach the global through geography in schools remains under-explored. This chapter argues for a more subject knowledge-led use of geospatial tools to teach the global in geography. The discussion centres on what powerful geography knowledge about the global looks like and how geospatial tools may contribute to this. An analysis of using a Digital Earth application––the Climate Hot Map––is presented as one example to show how such a tool could be used to enhance analysis, explanation, and generalisation about global climate change. The chapter concludes with recommendations for using geospatial applications to teach the global based on robust geographical knowledge foundations.
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Fargher, M. (2019). The Role of Geography and Geospatial Technologies in ‘Taking on the World’. In: de Miguel González, R., Donert, K., Koutsopoulos, K. (eds) Geospatial Technologies in Geography Education. Key Challenges in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17783-6_10
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