Ethics in GIS

Interesting read: Enlisting AI to Mainstream Ethics in Spatial Data Science Education

Here's a new-to-me term: Ethics Across the Curriculum or EAC - the idea that ethics should be woven throught the entire curriculum from beginning to end. Here are some resources:

• The Guide to the Geographic Approach  contains 15 open-access modules & some of those include ethical issues and questions.
• Now there is GISEthics.org and its collectiom of 21 case studies.

What to do in-practice? Three things: 1) use a formal case study analysis, 2) use a disucssion forum prompt, and 3) include an ethics-related learning objective. How you may ask? Try the AI-based Ethics Case Study and Discussion Prompt Creator and create yourself a case study that aligns with your course content, a customized discussion forum prompt. and even your learning objective for the course syllabus.

Here's a complete case study from Claudi.ai: When the Map Has a Memory

ArcGIS Story Maps

A compliation of useful resources related to Esri / ArcGIS SDtory Maps.

• How to create an accessible story structure in ArcGIS StoryMaps

Mapping / Legends

• Legends for storytelling part 1: Optimizing the basics

Your Name in Landsat!

Silly, but fun: Your Name in Landsat

Maybe even a good way to explore landforms in a Physical Geography class!

Poster Design: #evenbetterposter

Tired of the old 3-column or 4-column for your scientific poster? Try #evenbetterposter instead!

ChatGPT Images 2.0

I have not tested it, but apparently ChatGPT Images 2.0 can basically create a complete research poster for you. Not sure how this would work in-practice for anything that includes 'original' research, but it should work fine for the classic student literature-review poster.

How The Heck Does GPS Work?

Good, albeit a little nerdy: How The Heck Does GPS Work?

Social Media For AI Agents

This is brilliant & scary at the same time: imagine AI agents 'chatting' with each other via social media using a Reddit-style interface. Moltbook seems to be that.

Then there is Agent4Science = a social network for AI scientists. Read more about it here.

Now we need more AIs to analyze these interactions & see if we can learn if/how AI agents change over time. This will also generate vast amounts of new potential training data for the AIs themselves much the same way that human Reddit & Facebook threads are used as AI training data.