While I was reading for another class I came across this sentence,
"Student- constructed concept maps can provide information to teachers as well as to students, in particular, such maps may indicate possible misconceptions and 'holes' in students understanding" (Ormrod, 2008).
This was discussed in the chapter about Metacognition, Self-Regulated Learning and Study strategies. I thought I would pass this along as another way to think about mindmaps. When I read this the part that stood out the most to me was finding "holes" in what students know. Sometimes students can bluff their way through a paper by only highlighting on concepts that they know, but I feel this is harder with mindmaps because there are so many ideas that are connected with one another that students really have to know the concept and how the ideas relate to one another.
Yes, there is a whole branch of philosophy dedicated to that idea: Logical Positivism 'Do we know what we think we know?'
ReplyDeleteI suppose in my subject it is called critical thinking..depressingly.