This presentation will be based on the use of FreeMind and FreePlane Software which is freeware. It is also available as portable software and can be run directly off a memory stick without installing onto the host machine. This means that it can be downloaded for free and your learners can take it home as well.

1. Using Mind Mapping software in
Science, languages, Biology….
Ok. All subjects then
Dr Ron Beyers
Young Engineers and Scientists of Africa
SchoolNet South Africa
Webinar
November 2013

2. Uses of a pencil
Same Pencil - Different Outcomes

3. LEFT BRAIN
Sequence
Literalness
Analysis
Traditional
Education
RIGHT BRAIN
Context
Emotional Expression
Synthesis
Future
Education
Cheaper Left Brain
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Workers in India
Call Centres
Tax Returns
Programming
Innovators
Creativity
Mason-Dixon Line
Functions of the Brain
• Think across
disciplines
• Adaptable

4. Digital Literacy vs
Computer Literacy
Database
ICT Enabled Innovator
Spreadsheet
ICT Practitioner
Word Processing
ICT User (Application)
Basic Literacy
Basic Literacy
Computer
Divide
Digital
Divide
Society

5. Education as a Journey
• Old school
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Sage on the stage
Teacher as a gatekeeper
Teacher as the bus driver
Controlled route
• Old World
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Industrial era to Information age
Information is key
Calculators and computer mouse
Teachers preparing learners for a
world that no longer exists
• New school
Guide on the side
Partnership formed
Learner as the bus driver
Start and end defined but
different routes
o Constructivist approach
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• New World
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Knowledge society
Knowledge is key
Emphasis on communication
Greater emphasis on real world
issues of globalisation

6. Software
• Types
o Commercial
o Open Source/Freeware/Shareware
• iPad / Apple
o SimpleMind (https://itunes.apple.com/za/app/simplemind+-mind-mapping/id305727658?mt=8)
o MindMeister(https://itunes.apple.com/za/app/mindmeister-mind-mapping/id381073026?mt=8)
o Total Recall
(https://itunes.apple.com/za/app/total-recall-mind-map/id360443748?mt=8)
• PC/Laptop
o FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
o FreePlane (http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
• Linux
o FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
o FreePlane (http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
• Android
o Simple Mind (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.modelmakertools.simplemindfree)
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Mindjet Maps (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.thinkingspace&hl=en)
Mindomo (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.EXswap.Mindomo&hl=en)
o Many other software titles available

7. English Essay

8. Biology - the Skeleton

9. Organic Chemistry

10. Planning Complex
Documents

11. Bloom’s Taxonomy
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12. Good software in the hands of a bad teacher
is useless while bad software in the hands of
a good teacher is excellent.
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13. The individuals who can mastermind a
future cure for AIDs,
solve the world’s energy crisis, etc.
are in the classroom of today

14. Dr Ron Beyers
Young Engineers and Scientists of Africa
ron@yesa.org.za
0833108843