Using Mind Mapping in Social Studies at Public Junior High School No.1 South Siberut Mentawai

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200803.063How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mind Mapping Learning Media, IPS

Abstract

The extent and amount of social studies material requires teachers to be creative and innovative in the learning process that is lively and dynamic. Social studies teachers must be able to change the paradigm that social studies lessons are only stories that is not interesting, and boring. Learning media must be created in order to make learning process is more interesting, interactive. Student motivation and attention can be improved (students centered) through the mind mapping as a note-taking technique to master learning material that highlights student’s creativity. This study aims to: 1) describe the use of mind mapping learning media for social studies learning in grade VIII of public junior high school-Sekolah Menengah Pertama (SMP) Negeri 1 South Siberut Mentawai, 2) find out the obstacles faced by teachers when applying mind mapping learning media in social studies subjects. This research is qualitative research as a research procedure that produces descrip- tive data. Based on the facts in the field, it was found that the use of mind mapping in the learning process of social studies in grade VIII of Public junior high school No. 1 South Siberut Mentawai by using mind mapping. Social studies learning process became more interesting and students enthusiast in learning. The research result shows that the student’s mind mapping learning media innovation is still very simple and the teachers in schools are not accustomed to use of learning media because the learning process is conventi-onal.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dessy Amelia
AU  - Buchari Nurdin
AU  - Siti Fatimah
AU  - Aisiah
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/04
TI  - Using Mind Mapping in Social Studies at Public Junior High School No.1 South Siberut Mentawai
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference On Social Studies, Globalisation And Technology (ICSSGT 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 506
EP  - 511
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200803.063
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200803.063
ID  - Amelia2020
ER  -