1Cademy - Concept Maps and Meaningful Learning

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Concept Maps and Meaningful Learning

Can be used as a learning tool and an evaluation tool, encouraging students to use meaningful-mode learning patterns
When learners work with concept maps, they become more proficient at meaningful learning and they can overcome misconceptions they held initially
When a teacher develops their own concept maps, they gain a clearer understanding of the key concepts to be learned, and the concept map also provides guidance for the learning sequence.
- Working through the concepts on the map, from the more general, more inclusive concepts at the top of the map to the more specific, concepts lower in the map provides for a psychologically sound sequencing of instruction.
It is also possible to use to see how a given state or local curriculum matches or deviates from an optimal leaning sequence, and/or includes or omits necessary concepts
It seems evident from diverse sources of research that our brain works to organize knowledge into hierarchical frameworks and that learning approaches that facilitate this process significantly enhance the learning capability of all learners
While concept maps can help facilitate meaningful learning, students also need to be taught about brain mechanisms and knowledge organization, and this instruction should accompany the use of concept maps.

Updated 2022-01-25

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