Educating residents, teachers and youth in a costal community in Costa Rica to use geospatial technologies to investigate, map and make a difference.
The Morpho Institute's insight:
Really cool project using GIS to help a Costa Rican Community better understand, manage, and take action to make their community sustainable for today and in the future!
As someone who used to work in outdoor sports before making a dramatic u-turn into the world of technology and kids, I find it viscerally disturbing to see young kids out in nature with their eyes glued to a screen.
Great list of smart phone apps for collecting field data. Get your class outside and exploring with these tools! From the Bruna Lab/Tropical Ecology/University of Florida: http://brunalab.org/apps/
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