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Thinking Spatially: Incorporating Geographic Information Science in Pre and Post Secondary Education Sarah Witham Bednarz 1. Introduction The first United States conference on the educational application of geographic information systems (GIS) sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) was held in 1994. At that conference, an official of NSF focused discussion by asking these questions, “We need … recommendations about where GIS is now, and where it is going to go as a research tool. What is the learning that produces understanding of concepts and processes students should know a