Mind mapping Approach in Learning History

Abstract

Currently, most Malaysian teenagers know very little about Islamic history and its civilizations. Although Islamic history and civilizations are covered briefly in Malaysian school syllabus, appreciation towards the subject is very little. This is because of traditional approach of learning Islamic history does not appealing enough for the students to enjoy and understand the subject matter. The capability of new powerful multimedia tools have enable an improved applications to be developed in order to facilitate a better teaching and learning environment. Nevertheless, anticipation of mental abilities is also significant to engage a better learning process. Due to this matter, a ‘Mind Mapping’ approach along with the theoretical foundations of teaching and learning tasks are studied and adapted in the Islamic History courseware development. The developed courseware was tested with (n=10) for its effectiveness and user experience. The outcome yielded positive results based on the unique and interesting design.

Mind Mapping Technology As A Real Request Of A Modern School

“…01). Experiments conducted by scientists as part of studying the possibilities and effectiveness of mind maps showed that even students who did not succeed in the program felt their involvement in the topic under study due to the fact that they had a holistic picture of events supported by their own associations (Dhiyauddin, 2018).…”

Applying Mind Map in Teaching History in Primary Schools – Case Study of Dak Lak Province, Vietnam

“…Other scholars apply mind map in different subjects of Physics ( (Li, Tran, & Le, 2016), Geography (Nguyen & Pham, 2018;Sari, Sumarmi, Utomo, & Astina, 2019), Language (Tran, 2020). Dhiyauddin, Ahmad, Ismail, & Diah (2018) argue that history is a boring subject and students always avoid from learning it. That applying some software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Unity is useful to create mind map; and that using diversified colors and pictures, shapes has high meaning in teaching and learning history, in which including Islamic history.…”