Mind Maps are a useful teaching and learning tool. They could enable the skills of communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity which are identified as super skills being required for success in the 21 st century. This paper suggests using OKMindmap to create a new open educational resource (OER) model called Big Book as an innovative educational method. The book was intended as an online collaborative learning environment where multiple sources of information such as video clips, images, sounds, texts and hyperlinks could be added as nodes of OKMindmap. It was trialed with the tenth graders at Teacher Practice High School of Can Tho University for one year. The results of the trial were positive. The students were interested in this new mode of learning since they could create their own Big Book by gathering information available on the web or design their own study plan which can be easily shared. The findings point to the feasibility of creating a Big Book for Vietnamese learners as the design of the Big Book was made easier and more affordable than ever in the age of technology.
Open educational resources (OER) are important because they help improve education across the globe, especially for developing countries. In this paper, we introduce a WebQuest that was built in OKMindmap style as suitainable OER model. We focused on how to deploy several skills of 21st century namely collaboration, communication, critical thinking, computational thinking and creativity in teaching and learning using online tools such as OKMindmap, Scratch, Youtube and Facebook to high school teacher practice in Can Tho University of Viet Nam. In the current study, OER in one OKMindmap page was built and used for learning and teaching. WebQuest in OKMindmap style was made by teachers as an assignment for 140 students in their coursework. The students' learning products in OKMindmap style called Big Book are shared to Facebook for helping our community in their long life learning. A case study investigated is a Mekong River WebQuest which asks student to do Scratch projects to present their knowledge and concerns about Mekong Delta dealing with the climate change problem and Mekong river pollution nowadays. This work shows how to apply our suggested WebQuest model effectively in schools as OER to make the teaching and learning more creative and happier for the young generation.
In this paper, we propose a new WebQuest model using Web 2.0 services to organize online learning activities by using OKMindmap for building WebQuest and suggest Scratch projects created by students for outcome. WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. WebQuests can be a valuable addition to a collaborative classroom. One of the goals is to increase critical thinking by employing higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Webb’s Depth of Knowledge. WebQuests can be a versatile tool for teaching students. OKMindmap is a useful, free, easy to use knowledge manipulation tool for content creation and management. It helps building an innovative collaborating environment for online class and provides a way to embed web service as a node. With this capability, any web service can be embedded as a node on a single map. Moreover, many users (about 40) can work on a same map together. Scratch is a free educational programming language that was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with over 21 million registered users and 25 million shared projects. Scratch is designed to be fun, educational, and easy to learn. It’s a programming language for all with the tools for creating interactive stories, games, art, simulations, and more, using block-based programming. Facebook is also used as a tool for connecting and sharing WebQuest with students. This model was experimented at the School of Education at Can Tho University, which brought us positive results through blended learning. Our desire is to build a WebQuest library in a simple, cost-effective way through this STEM-style education so that inservice and preservice teachers can share together for the best professional development during the current industrial revolution 4.0.
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