Activity 3: Lesson Planning with a Concept Map

 

 

Activity 3: Concept Map

 Create a free account at MindMeister.com. Use your class alias Google account to open the account.

Create a map using Mindmeister's lesson planning template. Each lesson should identify the objectives,

prerequisites, resources necessary to teach the individual lesson. For each lesson you should 

incorporate a notes section for future planning. Aim for a single 50 minute lesson. 

See this model concept map for example.

Use Mindmeister to plan collaborative lessons using video, podcasting, and maps. Each lesson will 

include an exemplar.

Each lesson will reference the Manitoba ICT curriculum. 

Each lesson will specify an objective from the MB Literacy with  ICT  across the Curriculum continuum 

and use the continuum to determine the best ICT application and or strategy to use in each instance. 

Concept maps are promoted in the teaching of computational thinking, a higher-level cognitive skill 

that will apparently feature very prominently in the new Manitoba K-12 curriculum due to be released 

 soon. 

The use of Concept maps for this purpose has received a fair bit of research attention.

Here an Abstract from a 2019 conference proceedings. 

Abstract:

The call for innovative talents in the information age is imminent. With the promulgation of the domestic high school information technology curriculum standards in 2017, the formulation and positioning requirements of the core literacy of the disciplines, computational thinking as one of the four core literacy, is the thinking ability that everyone should have. Many foreign educational practice studies have shown that mind mapping can effectively promote students' cognitive development and knowledge construction. However, the domestic educational application research is relatively lacking in this aspect, and there is little research on the comprehensive and in-depth combination of it and the core literacy “computational thinking” of the specific information technology discipline. To this end, based on the research status at home and abroad, this paper attempts to use the concept map tool to represent several important functions of computational thinking, "definition of problems", "abstract function", "build model" and "Debugging and improvement". The diagram incorporates the teaching model in the computational thinking development curriculum. This study used quasi-experimental research methods to explore the effect of conceptual map tools on students' computational thinking. The research results show that this teaching method has a significant effect on the development of students' computational thinking.

Xu, L., Tong, M.-W., Li, B., Meng, J., & Fan, C.-Y. (2019). Application of concept map in the study of Computational Thinking training. 2019 14th International Conference on Computer Science Education (ICCSE), 454–459. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSE.2019.8845505