ICT as MindTool
What is (ICT)?
It is widely acknowledged that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be used to improve the quality of teaching and learning at any level of education. (ICT) is defined as computer based tools used by people to work with the information and communication processing needs of an organization.
Information and communication technologies offer several opportunities in education:
- First, they can be used as a means of preparing the current generation of students for future workplace.
- ICTs can make the school more efficient or more productive.
- ICTs are seen as means to reform teaching, that is, to stimulate learners to learn actively and independently in a self directed way or in collaboration with others.
What are ICT mind tools?
ICTs are seen as means to reform and innovate teaching that is to stimulate learners to learn actively and independently in a self directed way and/or in collaboration with others. Using ICT in the form of ‘concept maps’ or ‘mind maps’ in stimulating thinking has been a widespread an important area of investigation not only in education but also in other areas. Mind maps have also been used as a means of communication, to help others understand the rationale of an argument or the structure of student’s knowledge, illustrating how ideas are interrelated.
One of the ways of using ICT as a mind tool is: Concept mapping, it is a visual learning approach which is one simple and useful way to organize data while also showing the relationships between the information found. It is an excellent means of getting a look at current levels of understanding. Also it helps student to organize new information and to make meaningful connections between the main idea and other information.
As we can see in the picture, it organizes information by grouping facts and concepts; learning is at a higher level than just memorization of facts. And its easy visualization fosters long-term memory. I think that Visual learning helps students to see how ideas are connected and realize and how information can be grouped and organized. Also students can use diagrams and plots to display large amounts of information in ways that are easy to understand and help reveal relationships and patterns. Finally, Visual learning helps students think critically.
Some useful sites:
- http://www.stanford.edu/dept/SUSE/SEAL/Reports_Papers/Vanides_CM.pdf
- http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/concept_maps/
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