Mind Mapping

Ideas for a Lesson on Reading Maps

Bloom's Taxonomy provides a wonderful way to guide learning. It provides a framwork for understanding how our minds retains information and how to form educational objectives. Mind maps are ways to organize our thoughts so that we can come up with ideas on a topic. This is very useful for teachers so that they can plan their lessons based upon these these principles. By using online mind mapping tools, such as Popplet, teachers can successfully create diagrams that help to organize their thoughts to create a more complete and in-depth lesson plan.

Cyber safety is such an important issue today, especially in schools. While the Internet offers so many opportunities, it also can be a dangerous place for children at times. Bullying and inappropriate content  are becoming more and more relevant today. For my poster, I wanted to create a poster that would provide questions that students can ask themselves. It is designed to be a sort of self-check to enhance awareness in the minds of young people who spend a lot of time on the Web. When I am a teacher, I want to encourage safe and appropriate use of the Internet so that students can enjoy the benefits of being connected. I would share with parents my classroom rules for web use and encourage them to implement similar measures at home. I would encourage them to ask the questions at home as well. Since cyber bullying is such an issue, I think that monitoring the computers that students are using, helping them be aware of when a situation may become a bullying situation, and teaching them the tools to know how to respond.

Teaching Children in all Areas of Life

For my BookBuilder project, I endeavored to show how virtues can be taught to children of all different faiths and backgrounds. I propose that virtues are life skills that can be taught to students and children to help them grow into well-balanced individuals. They are universal to the degree that they can be applied to every age range and background. Teaching the virtues can engage children in making good choices and can build upon the child's natural and prior knowledge of making good choices and building good habits.
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http://bookbuilder.cast.org/view.php?op=view&book=56850&page=1