1. Jared Mader Red Lion Area School District Thursday, March 25, 2010
Concept Mapping
Jared Mader
Red Lion Area School District
Thursday, March 25, 2010

2. Workshop Particulars
Payment
Bathrooms
Breaks

3. RL Tech Academy Wiki Resources http://rltechacademy.wikispaces.com
Tutorials
Overview
Practice

4. National Educational Technology Standards for Students

5. National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers

6. Pedagogical Foundations
Curriculum must drive the need for technology integration
Technology is the tool used to facilitate student-centered learning
Scaffolding technology skills has to occur prior to the expectation that students can make thoughtful choices about its appropriate use
Degree to which students can utilize technology is also dependent upon their level of cognitive ability.
Curriculum must drive the need for technology integration
Technology is the tool used to facilitate student-centered learning
Scaffolding technology skills has to occur prior to the expectation that students can make thoughtful choices about its appropriate use
Degree to which students can utilize technology is also dependent upon their level of cognitive ability.

7. A Taxonomy for Integrating Technology into Diverse Classrooms
Increasing Complexity of Technology Skills
Technology choices become autonomous
Increasing Levels of Cognition
Curriculum mastery deepens

9. How to Create Creating the Canvas Learning to Paint Creative Process
Inspiration, cMap, MyWebspiration, Mindomo, Mindmeister
Learning to Paint
User Created Content: Images, Video, Connections
Creative Process
Instructional Design: Be Vague

10. What is concept mapping?
Technique, developed by Joseph D. Novak (c. 1970), for visualizing the relationships among different concepts.
Diagram showing the relationships among concepts. Concepts are connected with labeled arrows.
Relationship between concepts is articulated in linking phrases

11. What is the Purpose?
Used as a tool to increase meaningful learning as well as to represent, visually, the knowledge of individuals and teams in education.
Why? Because it focuses on the existence of prior knowledge and extended thinking.

12. Concept Mapping by any other Name
Brain-storming
Mindmapping
Word Webs
Cluster Maps
Graphic Organizers
Network Maps

13. Tools of Concept Mapping
Software Based
Inspiration
cMap
Web Based
MyWebspiration
Mindmeister
Mindomo

14. Types of Concept Mapping
Template Concept Mapping – Pre-construct a concept map and then remove all of the concept labels while keeping the links. Ask the class to replace the labels in a way that makes structural sense.
Template Concept Mapping – Pre-construct a concept map and then remove all of the concept labels while keeping the links. Ask the class to replace the labels in a way that makes structural sense.
Select & Fill-in Concept Mapping - Teacher creates a concept map and then remove about one-third of concept labels. Place the deleted concepts in a numbered list on the map and have students choose among them.
Select & Fill-in Concept Mapping - Teacher creates a concept map and then remove about one-third of concept labels. Place the deleted concepts in a numbered list on the map and have students choose among them.
Connect Terms Concept Mapping - Students take given terms and organize/link them in a way that is meaningful and accurate represents their learning.
Connect Terms Concept Mapping - Students take given terms and organize/link them in a way that is meaningful and accurate represents their learning.
Free Concept Mapping - Students develop their own key vocabulary and connection between the terms and ideas related to them.
Free Concept Mapping - Students develop their own key vocabulary and connection between the terms and ideas related to them.

15. Steps of Free Concept Mapping
Brainstorm
Organize
Layout
Link
Revise
Finalize

16. Brainstorm
List all of the terms associated with the topic

17. Organize
Key in concept bubbles for a topic, based upon terms identified in the brainstorm stage.
Create groups and sub-groups of terms.
Identify/Create grouping terms and add them to concept bubbles.

18. Layout
Arrange the groups to represent the student understanding of the relationship between terms and groups of terms
Organize, in a similar fashion, the terms within a grouping

19. Layout Types Four major categories of concept maps
"Spider": Central theme or unifying factor in the center of the map. Outwardly radiating sub-themes surround the center of the map.
"Flowchart": Organizes information in a linear format.
"Hierarchical": Descending order of importance. The most important information is placed on the top.
"Systems": Organizes information in a format which is similar to a flowchart with the addition of 'INPUTS' and 'OUTPUTS'.

20. Link
Use linking arrow descriptions to explain the rationale behind why terms were connected.

21. Revise and Finalize Examine and Simplify Share Other Applications
The Web

22. Designing Activities Determining cause and effect Making comparison
Decoding ideas
Generating questions
Evaluating information
Testing one's knowledge

23. Assessing Maps Why are the students making their connections?
Did they identify or group based upon the main ideas?
Is it organized?

24. Start Designing