On the QT Newsletter, Collaboration via Group Mind Maps
Attachment: Mind Mapping
May 11, 2010
Did you know? Progress and innovation may depend less on lone thinkers with enormous IQs than on diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality, asserts Scott Page in The Difference. That is why in today’s fast-paced, highly competitive, increasingly complex, global economy the ability to work collaboratively is an essential workplace skill. Businesses are on the lookout for collaborative employees to help them solve problems and create innovation. As finals approach, you can help your students study for their final in your course as they build their collaborative skills via a group mind map. This effective collaborative process will give them an opportunity to share their thoughts, expose them to diverse points of view, and make additional connections as teams work to blend and build a course mind map.
Try this:
Ask students some questions about how they study for finals.
How do you generally study for finals?
What study secret has helped you reach a successful outcome?
Who has used mind mapping as a study tool? How?
View this 2-minute video that explains the why and how of mind mapping.
Distribute Mind Mapping for Finals activity and review the directions.
Give students time to create their own individual mind maps.
Then have them form small groups to combine their mind maps into one group mind map.
Share/Post group mind maps for students to review. (How are these maps the same and different?)
Discuss what students learned from both the individual and group mind mapping and how/why they would use this tool in the future.
Quik Quote: … by working together, with everyone contributing what they can, a greater good is achieved …
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