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Learning GIS and Learned Helplessness
posted by Satri
on Saturday May 05, @01:58PM
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from the learning-to-think-out-of-the-box dept.
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The Memory Link has an interesting entry on learned helplessness in GIS, a reaction to this entry on All Points Blog about learning GIS in the context of fast evolution. From the APB post: "I'm less comfortable with this statement: "People interested in working in geographic information systems must understand that everything learned today will be useless in the future because technology constantly changes [...] I'll suggest that the intended message is that software and technology will surely change, but the core concepts of GIS/geography won't." From TML: "In any discipline I suppose there is a risk that a tool can cultivate a state of “learned helplessness” resulting in users who are unable to imagine solutions to problems for which their tool was not designed. [...] Learned helplessness becomes quite apparent when viewing the attitude many GIS users have towards major software vendors."
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