CONCEPT MAP VS MIND MAPMurali Loganathan

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April 2010

WHAT ARE MIND MAPS? EXAMPLE

WHAT ARE CONCEPT MAPS?

PURPOSE OF CONCEPT MAPS

KnowledgeRepresentationPreservation

Sharing and ConversingDecision makingRevealing skills

ELEMENTS

“User friendly” expressions of meaning

Node represent a concept with just a few words. Concepts are related to one another meaningfully by labeled links.

Node-link-node triad form propositions, i.e. they can be read as “stand alone” simple and meaningful expressions.

All morphologies

Nodes in graphical form

No Label to the links

Cannot form propositions

Linear Morphologies only

Concept Map Mind Map

VERY BRIEF THEORY

Meaningful Learning Differentiation and Subsumption Assimilation and Accommodation

Psychology Visual Reasoning and comprehension

Education Teaching

STEPS INVOLVED IN CREATING A CONCEPT MAP

1: Select the domain and focus 2: Set up “parking lot” and arrange the

concepts 3: Begin to link the concepts 4: Refine the Concept Map 5: Look for new relations and further refine 6: Build the Knowledge Model

EXAMPLE: WHY ARE WE FILLING TIME SHEETS?1: SELECT THE DOMAIN AND FOCUS2: SET UP “PARKING LOT” AND ARRANGE THE CONCEPTS

EXAMPLE: WHY ARE WE FILLING TIME SHEETS? 3: BEGIN TO LINK THE CONCEPTS4: REFINE THE CONCEPT MAP

TYPES OF LINKS

causal (leads to, produces) explanation (is a reason for) nominal (known as) property (consists of, has) procedure (results in, done by, way to do) probable (likely, always) event (comes before)

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