A class presentation to review Concept Mapping principles

1. Concept Map Review
10/20

2. Concept Maps are
• ways of visualizing knowledge meaningfully
• organized knowledge that is more easily
understood
• helpful in learning as new ideas can be
integrated and built from previous
knowledge

3. Concept Maps...
• need linking phrases to connect ideas to
create relationships and concepts
are composed of
cities neighbourhoods

4. Concept Maps...
• need linking phrases to connect ideas to
create relationships and concepts
Proposition
relationship
concept concept

5. Concept Maps...
• need linking phrases to connect ideas to
create relationships and concepts
New Knowledge
are building
neighbourhoods cities
blocks of

6. Concept Maps
• are commonly constructed in a hierarchy
• the most inclusive topics at the top
• the fine grained topics closer to the bottom

7. Concept Maps
• Enables the connection of concepts not
previously envisioned
• sometimes cross predetermined categories
to create new relationships

8. Concept Maps
• are useful for brainstorming, collaborating,
understand and innovate
• enables relating new concepts to existing
ones
• reorganize knowledge
• make explicit descriptions of concepts and
there interrelationships

9. Concept Maps
• Facilitate deeper process of knowledge to
promote, retrieve and apply
• Important as the world is spinning faster and
the semantic web is coming
• My own example of “Street Festival”

10. My Cmap