Mind Tool

ICT AS MIND TOOLS
 

Mind tools concept can be advice or techniques used by the learners to focus on developing or adapted information and also used to analyses process such as database or spreadsheets or expert system or multimedia publishing tools or micro words or Visualization Tools.  

I used mind tool (inspiration) to create a sample diagram, contains multimedia software  

ICT as mind tools require users to be creative and to think on high order level, the mind tools makes the several information in ways that are easy to understand and process. Most students prefer to learn information in visually way.    

The tools mind makes the ideas and thoughts understandable and meaningful.

 

 

 

Do we need to use mind tools on our school?

Yes, mind tools techniques are very useful for both students and teachers. This tools can used by the teacher to complete a lesson can be covered through pictures and word by using for example multimedia program such as hyper studio. And the students can used mind tools to organize their thoughts .

Useful link:  

Mind Tools

inforamtion about Mind Tools 

MindTools/default.htm 

Finally, I recommend using ICT as mind tools in our school, consider the most efficient   and effective ways to organize ideas and thoughts for students and teachers both. The mind tools simulating meaningful real word situations or problem.

 

Web Quest

In the beginning I wish you will see this video ,which explain the idea of what is the web quest in short way   

  

A Web Quest is an educational website is used by individuals to learn new information and acquires knowledge by reading the post. And these websites can be created by programs such as PowerPoint presentation and link it with hyperlink.  

Some of the web quest is design by the teachers to help the students by providing useful resources, tasks, 

helps references, solving steps and easy communications with teachers. This leads students to high order  

thinking skills and save time instead to waste on researching.  

In my opinion, that the use of this web may cause a challenge for students, if the student has a weakness in the technical skills may face difficulty accessing these web and take advantage of them .these sites are based on the internet, in the case of network outages would be impossible to enter it and this will be  

difficult for the learner.  

The important points must include in web 

quest:-  

  

·         introduction: must contain sample preview, weather explain the web quest idea or about the web quest owner or may be the reason for creating a web  quest.

·         Task: explain the used of tools and tasks must done by the learner.  

·         process: create a plan, solve equations, and find best solutions and included some references.   

·         evaluation: evaluate the goals and the proposed standards.     

·         conclusion: the ending or brief summary.  

I post some useful web quest example that I enjoy it. 

   

MATTER AND THE SCIENTIFIC PROCESS: Early Primary

http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/lessons/matter2.html

DISCOVERING ROBERT FROST http://www.viterbo.edu/academic/ug/education/edu250/hllaurent.htm 

Travel to the stars

http://www.sun-associates.com/hhsamp.html

At the end, I think the education is changed since our days; technology helps education process to be more interesting and useful such as web quest.  

inquiry-based learning

                                What is inquiry-based learning?

The inquiry word mean seeking for information or facts or problems or knowledge's by asking questions and understanding the answers.

The inquiry process begins first by choosing the real problem and trying to find suitable solutions in every possible way, for example research , reading articles, as well as asking people with extensive knowledge.  

In this diagram, shows the implementation steps to clarify inquiry process. 

The different between the traditional approach and the inquiry approach ?

In my point view that in traditional approach , the teacher became the sources of information and the students is the receiving of this information.

In the inquiry approach is to focus more on the content of the learning and development of information processing and problem solving skills. This approach is to focus on students center learning.

I think, Inquiry classroom depends on motivating students to research and encouraged them to use technology and benefit from all resources provide by inside school and outside school.  
   

The benefits of using inquiry based learning in classroom  

v  develop thinking skills  

v  able to solve problem

v  encouraged the students to ask question and analysis

v  teaches students how to learn and understand  

v  allows students to explore new ways to collect information   

This school teacher has applied inquiry –based learning in his school , watch this interview

       

At the end, the inquiry approach helps the students to became more interesting in learning process and they became    more involves in learning process .