An instructor can draw a concept map for an entire topic, and use that to decide where to introduce a formative assessment to avoid overloading short-term memory.
Great tip for desining a lesson
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- May 2019
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A concept map is a picture of someone’s mental model of a domain
Steps of drawing concept maps:
- List all concepts
- Put most abstract concepts on top
- Place all specific concepts at bottom
- Link them using verbs
- The more links the better
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carpentries.github.io carpentries.github.io
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oncept map. A concept map is a picture of someone’s mental model of a domain:
Some more notes about concept maps:
- Each concept is a noun or adjective
- Each connector is a verb
- More general concepts are arranged on the top of the page (so we have a top down or TD arrangement for graphing)
- Highly specific terms are placed in the bottom ## Software for concept mapping:
- Paper pencil (most convenient)
- cmaptools, free and excellent tools
- freemind (mind mapping as well but you can use for concept mapping) See a large list here
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graph model of knowledge
where you create mental models by linking various pieces of information together. A concept map or a mind map is useful. See also this annotation
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