Viz Think 4 Concept Mapping V4

VizThinkToronto 4 – Concept Mapping

Tonight’s Agenda
7:15 Before we do any Concept Mapping
Seeing knowledge: to communicate using pictures
Construction as meaningfully engage what you already know
7:20 Explore your disciplinary view
Assigned a discipline
Express visually in your discipline
Neighbour: Interpret what you see
When is this easier / harder?
7:25 Debrief
7:35 What is concept mapping anyway?
Examples
Instructions
7:45 Your turn
8:30 Recap
8:45 Review others models
9:00 Beer at Shoeless Joes.

Why Concept Mapping?
Concept Mapping helps meaningfully composite knowledge
Organized knowledge is more easily understood
Meaningful Leaning is better
Anchor new ideas or concepts using previously defined knowledge
Constructivism rejects the notion that one can simply pass on information to learners, expect that a understanding will result, and that a lasting impression will be made.

Who uses Concept Mapping? Panama Government - Every School by Constitutional mandate NASA Weather systems theory Explaining the MARS Lander Martin!

Let’s explore the concept of a car…

Through the eyes of a discipline Environmentalist Mechanic Sociologist Economist

Each work on your picture around your table If a picture speaks a thousand words… No writing (including discipline) No talking No looking Draw: Major ideas of the discipline as related to Cars

Rotate diagrams with you neighbour Neighbour: Annotate with your interpretation Draw Write No talking Repeat to the next neighbour

Discuss!
Are the annotations correct?
What’s difficult to interpret?
Are some disciplines easier to represent?
How much shared thinking did you come in with?

Debrief
Communicating via pictures is much easier when
You share perspective
You share a level of abstraction
You can annotate with words
Your table had very little of this shared context

Now that you have brainstormed by yourself
Find your like-minded team members
4 per team so you all talk
Now can think about Concept Mapping!
Environmentalist 1 Economist 1 Economist 2 Sociologist 1 Sociologist 2 Mechanics 1 Mechanics 2 Environmentalist 2

But first, what is a Concept Map?

Or, more simply
Concepts :
Concept Map
Linking phrases
Relationships
Concepts
Propositions
A concept map is composed of linking phrases
A concept map identifies relationships
Relationships are what is between concepts
A concept map is composed of concepts
2 or more concepts
connected with other words
to form a meaningful statement .

A Sheridan Student’s Concept Map on 1946

A Sheridan Student’s Concept Map on the Kyoto Protocol

Used in Commercial applications J. Novak 10-18-00

CONCEPT CONCEPT RELATION Proposition KNOWLEDGE

CONCEPT FRAMEWORK Most inclusive Least inclusive HIERARCHY GENERALIZATION

So far… Brainstorm by yourself Collaborate

Now that you have brainstormed
Find your like-minded team members
Pick a corner of a room
4 per team so you all talk
Hierarchical structure the most
inclusive, most general concepts at the center top of the map
the more specific , less general concepts arranged hierarchically below .
Use string! Keep the model flexible!

Understand Cars: Environmentalists View

Recap Brainstorm Collaborate Understand & Innovate !

In Summary, why concept map?
Constructing Concept Maps enables you to
Relate new concepts to existing concepts and ideas – improves understanding
Reorganize knowledge
Make explicit descriptions of concepts and their interrelationships
Deeply process knowledge – promote better remember / retrieve & apply
This is important because the world is spinning faster
Make sense of all this information being generated, e.g. on wikis and blogs
The Semantic Web is coming!

Reflect… over a beer?

Acknowledgements and thanks:
http://ited.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/Mindtools/conceptmap/conceptmap5.ppt
http://www.codata.org/06conf/presentations/F1/F1_Messerotti.ppt ( Mauro Messerotti, INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Trieste)

Viz Think 4 Concept Mapping V4

by Martin Cleaver on Jul 18, 2007

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