Kids Can’t Read Maps and Why That is a Problem
Photos via Flickr/zaphad1 and Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPLAlong with rotary phones and cassette tapes, you can add maps to the list of things this generation’s children don’t know how to use. Britain’s Royal Institute of Navigation recently noted that the growing dependence on smartphones and GPS systems threatens the future for map reading and compass use.
Roger McKinlay, president of the Royal Institute, argued that society is being “sedated by software.”
The institute found that many children can’t read a landscape or an ordnance survey map, or navigate with a compass—let alone use the stars that have guided humans for centuries.