The term geo-media is also used in aneducational context. They are great tools for supporting teaching and learning. They offer many opportunities for designing contemporary, relevant and challenging instruction methods in which students learn to analyse and solve spatial problems. Education with geo-media is often consistent with the ideals of inquiry-based education within authentic contexts. Geo-media can support every aspect of the spatial enquiry process. As it allows teachers and students to engage in more sophisticated investigations than otherwise possible. Geo-media have the ability to radically change the way subjects are taught. Geo-media could be included in all science subjects.

Competencies

Using geo-media in an educational context provides many benefits:

 

• You should start using geo-media during your lessons because of some important arguments:It enhances personal competencies by improving the spatial literacy (reading, orientating, combining, interpreting, measuring, comparing and querying). 

•  It improves social competencies such as collaborative activities, sharing and  discussing.

• It improves professional competencies by bringing the real world to the classroom, also constructive and active learning practices like problem solving, project-based learning, fieldwork strategies and inquiry approaches.

• Professional – geo-media are widely used now in many companies and institutions by people working in such domains as spatial planning, logistics, infrastructure, agriculture, disaster mitigation, water management and climate change research;
• Employability – The geo-media sector is rapidly developing so these competencies become really important in many professions;
• Citizenship – geo-media enables to follow crime data, spatial plans and the location of services through digital maps. They also prepare students for being active people in their local society. Lastly geo-media allows them to travel virtually to places that are remote and inaccessible to them, to learn about objects and phenomena and follow processes happening in the world.