Understanding Spatial Abilities

I developed mobile applications that use maps to render positioning information. However map literacy isn’t necessarily a given. Reading them might ask an effort and can even be misleading. I had players reporting me that they got lost on the map with their position while being familiar with the physical environment.

Why Some Students Have Trouble with Maps and Spatial Representations is a tutorial for college-level geoscience instructors that looks at spatial abilities (i.e. the capacity to extrapolate the real world from maps, models and the like).

Via The Map Room