Flowdia app as a constructive tool (concept mapping)

Description 

In the material I have developed, it actually illustrates how language learning can be more meaningful with the use ICT as an integral part of the lesson. I have come up with a typical topic that is ‘School’ from the theme 1: Our Home and Community from the class three teacher’s manual. After carefully analyzing the topic, I had an idea of teaching the topic through the use of a concept map to meet the learning preferences of the children. The concept map will help children provide with visual cues and certain text features and ideas about school. 

In the creation of the concept map, I have used an app so called as ‘Flowdia’ which I have downloaded from the play store. This app actually provides all the features of flow charts, importing images, text, shapes and provides alternatives to share on different social media platforms and store in the device itself for future use such as Google drive and file manager. Thus, it was easy to make as well as much more sophisticated method unlike using chart papers and markers which is considered to be traditional and time consuming. I will be using the concept map in the beginning of the lesson to brainstorm and deduce the lesson. I can start the lesson by asking question about school to check what they already have an idea about the school. Then, I will provide with the concept map with the help of a project and discuss further. 

To make the lesson more vivid and coherent, I can emphasis on their own school. And the concept map I have created is about ‘Taba Lower Secondary school’ in the reminiscence to my teaching practice. After having enough idea from the concept map, we would be playing the vocabulary game using the concept map. Then the children will be asked to used the words them have generated from the game to form sentences and then into paragraphs. In a way, the concept map provides different alternatives for me to teach as well as learning become more meaningful and purposeful. 

Upon completion of the task, I personally feel that it would be compromise if I fail to integrate ICT as a fundamental tool in the process of learning. In fact, it would be a bonus for me as well as the learners and takes to the deeper understanding of the content of the topic. And the link for the concept map is given below the description.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YZu5iUFNV3q0DhNlb9hgjAHbwA0rE99K/view?usp=sharing