ICT student textbook/A concept map of data

Title of Activity

Objectives

1. Understanding concept mapping as a method of expression
2. Using a concept map to explain the connections within data, further explorations, etc

What prior skills are assumed

1. An understanding that data is of different kinds
2. Familiarity with reading multiple kinds of data
3. Organizing data and creating data sets
4. Working with folders and files
5. Keyboard input

Resources needed

1. Computer lab with projection equipment
2. Handout for Ubuntu
3. Handout for Tux Typing
4. Handout for Freeplane

Digital skills

1. Introduction to working with a concept mapping tool
2. There are different formats in which data can be captured
3. One data format can be converted to another and multiple formats can be combined

Description of activity with detailed steps

Teacher led activity

1. Your teacher will take you through a process of explaining data organization and method. For this she will use a concept mapping tool.
2. We will use an existing data set to work on this. (We will use the languages of India map used in the previous activity)
3. Your teacher will discuss with you how you can use the mind map to organize your thinking and documentation processes as well as use it as an output of these processes. The mind map can be used as an editable mind map file or as an image.
4. The mind map (dynamic) and image (static) are both given below.

File:Languages spoken in India.mm

Student activities

1. You worked on different data collection and organizing activities in the previous section. For each data set that you collected, make a concept map representing the various data elements, the methods of organizing and possible ways of representing
2. You can create a mind map as an introduction to the data analysis and store it in your folder.

Portfolio

1. Your data sets - raw data, tabulated by hand and digitzed
2. Your concept map files with your explorations of the organized data