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tools of information, computation, and communication. They also help a child
in effective learning, communicating and collaborating, aside from locating,

evaluating and analysing information.

6.9.7 Leadership and Responsibility: These skills focus on the attributes related to

leadership, such as the ability to lead a team and effective team management
in relation to real world challenges. It also teaches a child how to support the

development of key personal qualities such as perseverance, being committed
and responsible, resilience and self-confidence and how to foster a commitment

to life-long learning.
CHAPTER 6 : PEDAGOGY
FUN FACT

Merriam Webster states:

In the 13th century : The word Skill meant CAUSE, REASON(Motive etc.)

Today in the 21st Century: Skill means ABILITY.

“HOW EVERYTHING EVOLVES WITH TIME!!!”

6.10 Using Concept Maps:

• Concept maps are spatial representations of concepts and their interrelationships

that are intended to represent the knowledge structures that humans stores in their
minds (Jonassen, Beissne and Yacci, 1993).

• The use of concept maps as teaching strategy was first developed by Joseph D. Novak
of Cornell University in the early 1980’s. His Work was based on the important idea

in Ausubel’s (1968) assimilation theory of cognitive learning which places a central
emphasis on the influence of students’ prior knowledge on subsequent meaningful

learning.

• Concept maps are diagrammatic representations, which show meaningful
relationships between concepts in the form of propositions, which are linked

together by words, circles, and cross-links.

• Concepts are arranged hierarchically with the super ordinate concepts at the top of

the map, and subordinate at the bottom, which are less inclusive than higher ones.

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