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Modern education reform demonstrates a shift from the classic teacher-centered model to one where interdisciplinary and holistic approaches play a central role in the curricula. Additionally, it has been found that the visual (re)presentation of statistical data, using simple or complex graphs, 3D maps and visual narrative, significantly develops students’ comprehension of the educational material as well as enhances their cognitive skills. This study was conducted to identify teachers’ awareness, views and skills regarding the use of Web 2.0 services, as well as their willingness to adopt in their own classroom teaching material prepared by colleagues, via a web-based platform created specifically to meet their needs. An online questionnaire was created and sent to secondary schools teachers’ throughout Greece and their responses were analyzed. The results show that (i) a high percentage of teachers in Greece acquire the basic ICT skills, (ii) they can use their PC or other smart devices to organize courses and search for educational material through Web 2.0 services (cloud etc.), (iii) they believe that familiarity with web-based platform teaching methods requires considerable time and effort, (iv) they mainly trust cloud and Web 2.0 services in order to better organize their courses and (v) they are willing to both share and adopt training material through suitable web-based platforms, under certain conditions. It is our assumption that an active and innovative approach based on such tools will lead to a higher level of comprehension and integration of geospatial statistics, for teachers and their students alike.
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Rizou, O., Klonari, A. (2020). Using Web 2.0 Tools in Teaching Spatial Statistics: Secondary Teachers’ Views from Greece. In: Nedkov, S., et al. Smart Geography. Key Challenges in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28191-5_5
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