Concept Mapping;
I'd had the chance to try out concept mapping software before, and the practice of using concept maps has been in my "bag of tricks" for quite some time. I find it to be very helpful for various reasons:
- it helps learners to "see" the various ideas in one place
- it helps show that there is value in all ideas, we display all contributions.
- helps my students to process and learn the information
- aids in organization of ideas
- helps to identify "what's missing" from an assignment, piece of writing or activity.
My students were better able to retrieve information that I had taught them using a concept map. I'd often see little scribbles to the right of the page with the map re-constructed.
Our group had our own personal experience creating our concept map. I'll post that idea in the next entry.
In a previous course, I'd read the "Cognitive Flexibility" Theory by Spiro et al. (http://tip.psychology.org/spiro.html) and got out of it, among other things, the importance of presenting the same idea in various different formats, as well as the importance of creating ties to various ideas, instead of keeping everything in its own little box!
No comments:
Post a Comment