workshop mindmapping
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Mind-mapping / Concept Mapping
Visual Approaches to Lecturing
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Agenda for Today’s Workshop
Learning styles.
What’s a mind-map?
What’s a concept map?
Mapping for teaching and learning.
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Types of learning
•People have differing preferences for the way that they learn
•While everyone can learn through any learning mode, everyone learns faster through their preferred mode
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This preference includes the depiction of information in charts, graphs, flow charts, and all the symbolic arrows, circles, hierarchies and other devices that instructors use to represent what could have been presented in words.
Visual
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Oral / AuralThis perceptual mode describes a preference for information that is "heard": lectures, tutorials, tapes, group discussion, speaking, web chat, talking things through.
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KinestheticAlso known as ‘experiential’ learning. By definition, this modality refers to the "perceptual preference related to the use of experience and practice (simulated or real)."
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DISCUSSIONWhat are some of the ways that you appeal to a variety of learning styles
in your classroom?
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Mind-mapping
• Created/promoted by Tony Buzan
• Stress visualization as well as the written
• Mind-mapping stresses tree-like structures and a radial hierarchy.
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Exercise 1
Let’s create a mind map that outlines the US federal government
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Concept Mapping
• Developed in science education.
• Is similar to mind-mapping, but there is more emphasis on highlighting relationships between elements.
• Concept maps tend to be more systemic and formalized.
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Stages in Constructing a Concept Map
1. Brainstorming
2. Organizing
3. Layout
4. Linking
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In groups, let’s create concept maps that explains how doctoral process works: from high school to first professorship.
Exercise 2
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Brainstorming Stage
• List as many terms and concepts associated with the question at hand.
• Write them on Post-It Notes
• Don’t worry about redundancy, relative importance or relationships
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Organizing Stage
• Spread out Post-It Notes
• Create groups and subgroups, try to emphasize hierarchies
• Identify terms that represent higher categories and add them
• Some concepts will fall into multiple categories, this will become important in the linking stage
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Layout Stage• Arrange items to represent collective
understanding of the relationships and connections between groups
• Try to maintain a consistent hierarchy
• Place similar items closer together
• Think of simple sentences that can show relationships between groups/items
• Rearrange as necessary; your map will look different from other groups
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Linking Stage
• Use lines with arrows to connect & show relationships between groups
• Write a word or phrase beside/below each arrow to identify the relationship
• One to several arrows can start or end on particularly important terms/concepts
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Revising Stage
• Review your draft
• Rearrange as needed; remove; simplify
• Discuss any remaining issues
• Think about colors, shapes or images you might want to use
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WAYS TO USE CONCEPT & MIND-MAPPING
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Using Mind/Concept Maps:Lectures
An effective way to present theoretical information more visually
A way to create an interactive environment
Very useful for Socratic method or capturing class discussion
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Using Mind/Concept Maps:Assessment
Concept maps are great tools for testing student learning
Checks their ability to remember content but more importantly processes and relationships
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Using Mind/Concept Maps:Study Aids
To help with complex lectures and/or readings, perhaps a concept map to demonstrate interconnectivity?
It need not be complete, it can have blanks and these could be filled in as a homework or in-class assignment
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Questions?
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Mind-mapping / Concept Mapping
Visual Approaches to Lecturing
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