Concepts: Concept Maps
What Is a Concept Map?
A Concept Map is a note-taking tool that gives learners a visual outline of verbal information. It is a picture of words: the important concepts, facts, and data, and their relationship to one another. The position of words on paper, with accompanying shapes, lines, and spaces, creates a mental image of what the topic is all about. A Concept Map is such an important part of learning that no training should be conducted without one.
According to Patricia Wolfe in Brain Matters (2001), “Humans are intensely visual animals. The eyes contain 70 percent of the body’s sensory receptors. . . . It’s not surprising that the visual components of memory are so robust” (p. 152). Put another way, the human ...
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