期刊名称：GI_FORUM - Journal for Geographic Information Science
电子版ISSN：2308-1708
出版年度：2013
页码：317-327
DOI：10.1553/giscience2013s317
出版社：ÖAW Verlag, Wien
摘要：In the last years the way how we communicate and exchange information has undergonesignificant changes. The relevant processes are increasingly Web 2.0-mediated and enablereflective and participatory practices. As part of this development, the use of geomedia ineveryday life (both in work life and private life) has gained in importance. The intrusion ofnew communication channels and media is closely related to discussions and research ontopics such as geo-communication, spatially enabled society and spatial citizenship.A competent handling of geomedia requires everyone to develop new and/or more sophisticatedcapabilities and abilities. While very recently school education has started to impartgeomedia competencies, opportunities for (Geo-)ICT empowerment for adults are ratherrare. Suitable activities on adult education and learning should be established for variousreasons (e.g. social inclusion, information access). This is in line with efforts of the EuropeanUnion to address the demand to increase and intensify approaches to adult educationand learning.Facing the existing gap between adults’ geomedia literacy on one hand and the promises ofa spatially-enabled society on the other, this paper discusses the topic of how everyone insociety can become spatially literate, i.e. how adults can develop and strengthen their geomediacompetencies. This discussion is illustrated with experiences from the pilot course“Geomedia 55 ” (held in cooperation with the “University 55 ” at Salzburg University,Austria) that aims at teaching geomedia skills for elderly people.
