The document describes how GroupMap, a collaborative online mapping tool, can be used for student-centric learning and critical thinking. It allows educators to create various group activities and templates for students to contribute to individually or collaboratively. Results can be viewed in real-time and exported for further discussion and action planning. The document provides examples of how different map types and features in GroupMap can support different learning objectives and national curriculum capabilities.

1. Workshop
Using collaborative tools for student centric learning
and critical thinking
Please go to www.groupmap.com/teachingandlearning

2. Here’s how GroupMap works
1. Create group activities on visual templates to
be shared in class or online.
2. Students discuss and add what they think
individually or as a group.
(Brainstorm, comment, group, dot vote, rate, score, like,
dislike, position/rank, action)
3. See results of decisions and
facilitate discussion/action.
Web based
Private – SHA-2 level certificates
Saved and shows results in real time
Customisable
Individual or team based input
Profanity filter on/off
Different brainstorming styles
Change anonymity settings
See individual contribution
40+ templates or design your own
Reuse templates
Dynamic HTML reports – Export to CSV/Excel

3. Paul Williams
Sessional Academic
School of Education

4. We have 30 new Martian
students enrolling.
What should we do?
Someone forgot to turn back the
spaceships!
 Totally online
 B.Ed students around Australia
 Simulation – staff meeting on
cultural diversity

5. 6 Thinking Hats

6. 6 Thinking Hats
They are a long way
from home
I hope they’ll be
embraced not excluded
Alienation
Martian food in the
tuckshop
Set up a QR code
based school
orientation system
in English and
Martian
means the Plutonians
will feel better!

7. Feedback/ results
1 - a great session (at least one student reporting
that finally they felt like a uni student!) Much
collaboration, good creativity, good problem
solving; read through the Martian stuff to see an
authentic issue; good critical thinking.
2 – consistently high attendance at Collaborate
sessions after that and an expected use of
GroupMap

8. Bhadra Chandran
Manager of Learning Services
Curtin Library

11. Nagammal Nagendran
Clinical and Professional Fellow
Medical Radiation Sciences

13. 1 year old male fell from height onto wooden floor. No LOC. Scalp tenderness and depression over left occipital area. Normal neurological
exam in ED 1 hour after injury but has some post-traumatic headache.
Consider:
• What is the clinical problem?
• What characteristics does this problem have which could be demonstrated with imaging?
• Which imaging procedure is able to demonstrate these characteristics?
• What is the likelihood of this being normal?
• If not, what should be done next?

14. Jeremy Lu
Curtin Business School

15. Formative Assessment

16. Student feedback

17. Problem Solving

18. SELF DIRECTED WORKSHOP ACTIVITY
Please work through the activities.
Reach out to table facilitators as needed.

19. Additional information

20. Impact on learning
• Reduces set up time and manual collation for teachers.
• Goes beyond “Guessing” in polling (original thought).
• Facilitates peer to peer learning and discussion.
• Allows teachers or peers to give feedback through comments,
votes, ratings or scores.
• Less distracting than social media.
• Subject agnostic – focus is on the question/activity itself.
• Let’s you explore topics where there is no one fixed answer.
• Set up different map types and decision making depending
on the lesson plan.

21. Literacy
ICT
Capability
Personal
and social
capability
Critical and
creative
thinking
Think better together. @groupmapapp #edchat
Australia National Capabilities Framework

22. use ICT to generate
ideas and plan
solutions
Generating ideas,
possibilities and actions
Australia National Capabilities Framework

23. use ICT to
generate ideas
and plan
solutions
use ICT
effectively to
record ideas,
represent
thinking and
plan solutions
use
appropriate
ICT to
collaborative
generate ideas
and develop
plans
Australia National Capabilities Framework

24. Map types
Create prioritized lists for people to add
ideas under your headings.
Click on the magnify glass to expand a list.
LISTS CHARTS
Participants can position ideas across 2 axis.
Individual data is captured to show you
where people stand.

25. MIND MAPS
Simple mind mapping to allow expansion of ideas.
No bells and whistles so people stay focused on content.
CANVASES
Create your own colour coded canvas for an in depth
session.
Map types

26. Buy now from $8/month
Customize each map.
Change the name.
Makes it easier to search later on.
Add objectives.
Tells people where to focus.
Change colours/headings.
Use your own language/style
Decide on the number of steps.
A lighting fast brainstorm through to a think tank
Customise each step.
Own your workflow
Explore advance options.
Refine the user experience
Choose anonymity.
Show it all, moderate or hide all names

27. Brainstorm your way.
Facilitator only is ideal for directed brainstorming.
Only the person who created the map can add ideas.
Otherwise, let everyone add ideas.
You can choose a maximum number of ideas
(1-20 or unlimited)
Use individual brainstorming if you want to see
what each person does on their own first.
Suggest a number of ideas at a time between maps.
Ideas are suggested randomly to give each idea
equal “air time”.
A collaborative style means everyone works on a
single shared screen and all ideas are seen straight
away.

28. Group ideas into common themes.
You can group ideas yourself and decide if
you want to allow participants to propose
groupings of ideas to you.
Otherwise, everyone can group ideas.
In the group step, just click on ideas to
create a new group. Don’t worry, you can
re-group ideas and change the name of the
group.

29. Position ideas.
Prioritize by dragging and dropping.
e.g. the most important to the top.
You can facilitate positioning and be the only person to move
ideas around or, let everyone position ideas.
If they do it collaboratively, they will all share the same screen
and any movement is the same on everyone’s map.
If they do it individually, each person can position as they see
fit, and you can see the results of both individual and the
group average placement.

30. Voting
You can see results in real time in results and reports.
Rating
This can be anything from their level of support,
how much impact the idea along the slider.
Love a little dotmocracy?
Set the number of votes you want each person to have.
Allow multiple or single votes per idea.
Decide if participants must use all their votes to continue.
Decide what’s best.
Add up to 3 dimensions on a sliding scale.

31. Add what action items for each idea, who needs to do it
and when it needs to be done by.
Create Action
Order action items as needed.
These will be shown in reports also.

32. Results in real time.
Choose how you want to display the results
Sorting ideas brings the most important to the
top of the screen.
Sizing ideas means that the most voted, rated,
liked or common idea (Depending on which
ones you used) are displayed larger.
You can display results in real time on the “big
screen” or keep this hidden until you are
ready. (See Hide step)

33. Use the advance options to
refine the experience.
Use the advance options to enable/disable
features on each map. Everything is on as a
default.
You can disable chat, comments and images if
you want to keep the input simple.
Disable the welcome and stage instructions if
you want people looking at the map straight
away.
We recommend capturing emails when people
log in, but you can also turn this requirement
off.
A profanity filter helps to keep content clean.
Any blocked profanity will be seen in the
reports by the facilitator.

34. Map overview.
Invite people here by
email, link or map ID
Click on a step to open
up more options
SIDE MENU
• Get your reports
• See participants
• Change map settings
• Lock the map
• Exit the map

35. Open up an idea.
You can edit an idea, add
images, capture comments.
Facilitator features only.
Pin an idea onto every persons’ app.
Block an idea if it is not appropriate. It will
only remain on the participants map but
wont’ be seen in further stages.

36. Rich reporting.
Get a full map image
Drill down into ideas
See individual inputs
Export data
Sort each column
About this report

37. Log out
Account details
Get inspiration
Find maps and ideas
quickly
Join another map
Clone or remove
maps
Your Map Library

38. What GroupMap CAN NOT do
Replace discussion time –Don’t assume that
they will read everything.
Concept mapping – different product and
requires funding for development.
Polling – other solutions like poll everywhere
might be better

39. What GroupMap CAN do
Add it to LMS as a link or as part of the framework.
Give you insight into individual student contribution
for that activity.
Support a wide range of interactive, group based
activities to improve critical thinking.
Develop further templates and integration.

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Last Updated 16/07/2015