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Concept Maps to Support Collaborative Knowledge Modeling
Barbara Bowen, See What You Know www.seewhatyouknow.com
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Concept Maps to Support Collaborative Knowledge Modeling
Barbara Bowen, See What You Know
Concept mapping was developed by Prof. Joseph Novak and his research team at
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY/USA) in the 1970’s. The original applications
of concept mapping were to represent the emerging science understanding of elementary
students and the expert knowledge of scientists. The resource “Concept
Maps, What They Heck Are These?” provides a good summary of what a concept
map is and how to go about creating one. Concept mapping is currently being
used in educational institutions to support primary to tertiary studies in over
100 countries. In 2004, President Torrijos of Panama announced a nation-wide
initiative to implement concept-mapping in all K-12 schools in Panama over a
period of ten years as a way to leapfrog Panama’s educational system into
the knowledge age. In 2004, Novak and Canas proposed A New Model of Education.
The essence of this model is students’ work to extend “skeleton
expert maps” by adding new sub-concepts and knowledge resources. The paper
is available in the resource library for this workshop. Urbino, Italy has undertaken
an educational improvement project that uses the New Model of Education as its
foundation. A PowerPoint of a recent address by Prof. Novak to the University
of Urbino is available as a resource in the space for “Novak and Canas.”
Workshop Goals
Learn about the theory behind Novakian Concept Mapping
Explore the educational applications of shared knowledge models created with
CmapToolsTM concept mapping software.
Learn about recent innovations in using Concept Mapping reshape teaching and
learning
Create concept maps to be used as collaborative knowledge building environments
Create individual concept maps
The Process
Barbara Bowen will lead two live online workshop sessions and an online discussion
on the use of CMAp tools in our Breeze Meeting room on Friday 14th July from
3-4 pm and on Monday 17th July from 3-4 pm. Professors Joseph Novak and Alberto
Canas who are globally recognised concept mapping experts will lead interaction
in an online discussion forum which will consider issues of theory and the powerful
use of concept mapping in realworld educational systems.
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