Planning for relevance
Video transcript
Tutor:
This morning's session is about mind maps and how we might use mind maps in teaching IT. Now really what they're used for in education generally is for brain storming and note-taking and planning and organisation so that's how they're being used but what we're trying to do with IT, what we're trying to bring to them for IT teaching is a little bit of variety and we're trying to get also an aid to visualisation so that instead of having things on a worksheet we have a sort of overview of what's happening in terms of the IT, in terms of what people can do with the IT and mind maps I think can help people to make the link between what they're doing in the lessons with Powerpoint or with spreadsheets or with Publisher or whatever, what they're doing in their lessons and what they can do with it outside. One of the things very often that is not taught is for when learners don't understand what they can use the applications for, so they know how to use it, they know how to put a picture into Word or a picture into Publisher but they've no idea really about the range of possibilities for using that Publisher or spreadsheet or whatever. We've got something like this which is … a cookery, somebody that's interested in cookery, and we might think 'Well how can that person use IT to help them in their cookery interest?' And we've got loads of things here, you can see that in desktop publishing they can create recipe books, they can create recipe cards, they could create fields for recipes, and all these things are beginning to fit into a mind map that says 'These are the ways that you can use IT to help you in cookery.'
View Phil, an ICT manager in a Local Authority Adult Learning service, explaining how mind maps can be used for ICT teaching and learning, together with shots of mind maps and tutors using them.