The Importance and Necessity of the Use of Geographic Information System (Gis) In Geography Teaching

Geographic Information System (GIS), which was put into practice with the development of information and computer technology, has been used for monitoring and planning in various fields of professions during the last decade. In the most general sense, GIS is to gather any kind of data by correlating them both with each other and with their geographical locations in a computer media and then to monitor these graphically or in written form. When the whole earth is considered as a geographic place, it is clearly seen that the physical and social processes in the Earth's crust have direct or indirect connection with geography. Especially from the beginning of 21 th century, Geography offers extreme comfort to human being in almost every aspect of life with its contemporary technologies, equipment and methods such as GIS, GPS, RS, computers and Internet. In this century named information era, it is vital to find new solutions to people's problems by getting different results from gathering, providing, and querying information. GIS, which is based on entering the information about the earth into computer and analyzing the results, is a very important information technology that is being used in every aspect of life for finding permanent solutions to the problems that humans face. The common use of the Geographical Information Systems at the schools will provide the transfer of information extensively to the student and accelerate the learning in an effective way. As an assistant to the teacher in geography lesson, GIS supported education makes the aims, contexts and evaluation activities of the lesson more functional.