Mind Mapping

Connecting Ed Tech, TPACK, and 3 C's

How & why was the Mind Map created

Teachers should know how the technologies they select for learning tasks relate to the pedagogical practices of their instruction. This mind map demonstrates the complexities and interrelationships of three instructional technologies with the possible connections to Bloom. In addition, the map demonstrates the connections to the main purpose of the technology as it related to the 4, or in this case, 3 C's. The map was created using a Google Slide, in part to demonstrate that fancy external tools and apps are not always needed to accomplish simple mind mapping tasks.

How it enhances learning

How is Mind Mapping used

Mind mapping as a general term is a strategy of taking ideas, which sometimes appear unrelated, and making connections to enhance meaning. In the case of the map created here, the purpose was to visually show how individual applications can serve a multitude of purposes depending on how they are used with instruction. In other words, showing that the technology itself doesn't create learning, but can be used from the simplest of academic tasks to complex problem solving and digital creation. Mapping is also used for brainstorming, and organizing ideas and concepts visually in order to help learners make sense of complex relationships and processes.

How does Mind Mapping enhance learning

Organizing complex in text form or one's head can be daunting, if not downright impossible, for many students. Mind mapping is a great strategy to help put these ideas into a visual context. This can enhance learning by providing students with a visual frame of reference to accompany difficult information. At higher levels of use, students will generate their own mind maps to demonstrate ideas and connections, to plan events and projects, and to organize otherwise chaotic information. Depending on the application of this skill, mind mapping can hit on all three of the C's exhibited in the map above.

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