Geographic information technologies: a challenge in the teaching of Geography

Abstract

The recent development on technology provided a wide access to geographic information and generalized its use on different domains. As result, the principles of spatial thinking gained new importance on modern society, projecting the geographic reasoning as key-skill for the citizen of the 21st century. Within such framework, it is assumed that scholar Geography must follow such tendency, finding in the new geotechnologies a set of educative tools appropriate to achieve the goals of the discipline, and at the same time a way to get close to the idea that is behind the concept of Digital Earth.