viz think 4 concept mapping v4
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VizThinkToronto 4 – Concept Mapping
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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.
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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.
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Who uses Concept Mapping?
Panama Government- Every School by Constitutional mandate
NASAWeather systems theoryExplaining the MARS Lander
Martin!
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Let’s explore the concept of a car…
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Through the eyes of a discipline
Environmentalist
Mechanic
Sociologist
Economist
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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
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Rotate diagrams with you neighbour
Neighbour: Annotate with your interpretation
DrawWrite
No talking
Repeat to the next neighbour
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Discuss!
1. Are the annotations correct?
2. What’s difficult to interpret?
3. Are some disciplines easier to represent?
4. How much shared thinking did you come in with?
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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
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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
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But first, what is a Concept Map?
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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.
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A Sheridan Student’s Concept Map on 1946
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A Sheridan Student’s Concept Map on the Kyoto Protocol
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Used in Commercial applications
J. Novak 10-18-00
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CONCEPTCONCEPT
CONCEPTCONCEPT
RELATIONRELATION
PropositionProposition
KNOWLEDGEKNOWLEDGE
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CONCEPTFRAMEWORK
Most inclusiveMost inclusive
Least inclusiveLeast inclusive
HIE
RA
RC
HY
HIE
RA
RC
HY
GENERALIZATIONGENERALIZATION
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So far…
Brainstormby yourself
Collaborate
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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!
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Understand
Cars: Enviro
nmentalists View
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Recap
Brainstorm
Collaborate
Understand &
Innovate!
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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!
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Reflect… over a beer?
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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)