Electronic Mind Maps and the Development of Higher-order Thinking Skills In Light of the Theory of Hemispheres of the Brain

Al-Madah, Dalia Al-Sayed; Mohamed Shaker, Amany; Abdelazez, Raghda M.

doi:10.21608/maat.2021.307715

Electronic Mind Maps and the Development of Higher-order Thinking Skills In Light of the Theory of Hemispheres of the Brain

Authors

¹ Dept. of Art Education- Faculty of Specific Education- Kafr El-Sheikh University

² Dean of Faculty of Specific Education Kafrelsheikh University Kafr Elsheikh EGYPT

³ student of art education curriculum and Teaching methods, Faculty of Specific Education, Kafrelsheikh University

10.21608/maat.2021.307715

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the effectiveness of electronic mind maps in the development of higher-order thinking skill of art education students because of their effective role in supporting and integrating brain activities through teaching planning, educational experiences, and the development of the ability to criticism, innovation and innovation, which may help to develop skills of higher thinking.
The problem of research is to answer the following question: What is the effectiveness of electronic mind maps and the development of higher-order thinking skills in the light of the theory of hemispheres of the brain? To answer this question, the research falls into three axes. First: Electronic mind maps as a strategy for the development of education and coping with the scientific explosion and the electronic renaissance in the current era, and the importance of electronic mind maps in improving the ability to remember, understand, analyze and compile and develop information in a context in which the process of reviewing, remembering and generating new ideas, because of the characteristics of mind maps : Inclusiveness, aggregation, speed, concentration, organization and everything that supports the relationship between ideas from a general idea to sub- or secondary ideas. The second: the development of higher-order thinking skills of knowledge, understanding, comprehension, application, analysis and evaluation to move between each in a series of invisible mental activities in search of meaning, and the processing of sensory inputs and information to form ideas to acquire experiences meanings and new information, through the use of electronic mind maps strategy, and simulation Text, images, colors, drawings and lines to facilitate, arrange and remember information. Third: Activate the hemispherical theory of the brain to take advantage of the lobes of the brain together and invest the mental state of the individual, and give each part of the mind map its right to focus, and new relationships between parts of the map and connect them with mind maps of others.

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