We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a SchoolNet free webinar this week on Thursday afternoon 7 November at 3.30pm with Dr Ron Beyers, Managing Director of Young Engineers and Scientists of Africa, as our guest speaker. Here are the details:
Webinar details
Presenter: Dr Ron Beyers
Invited by: Fiona Beal (fiona@schoolnet.org.za)
When: Thursday 7th November 2013 at 3:30pm
Time Zone: (GMT+02:00) Harare, Pretoria
To join the meeting: http://meet78641452.adobeconnect.com/mindmapping-ron/
Description sent by Dr Beyers: “If your brain is like mine you will understand how some of your learners feel when it comes to making sense of the work. A good educator has the ability to make sense out of subject information and provide a framework for learners to understand the interrelationship of concepts. Take the educator away and the weaker learners are unable to continue by themselves. Learning has to continue outside the walls of the classroom. Mind maps is a teaching and learning tool which provides the user with the opportunity to do a brain dump of all possible ideas without any structure. Once this phase is complete they can then rearrange their ideas to look for interrelationships for themselves and construct their own meaning. This is in stark contrast to having to cram information into their heads and simply recall it based on key stimuli in tests/exams. Change the stimuli and the learners are lost. Sound familiar? What is teaching all about?
This presentation will introduce users to the idea of making use of any type of mind mapping software for virtually any subject from writing essays, to creating summaries of chapters, planning activities, etc. The process is to empower learners to move from information receivers to knowledge generators which our country desperately needs – people who can think for themselves.
'Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school'. (Einstein)
P.S.
1) This presentation will be based on the use of FreeMind and FreePlane Software which is freeware.
http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
2) 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.
http://freemind-portable.en.softonic.com/ “
Please feel free to join us
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