Top 10 Ways to Make Yourself Look (and Be) Smarter
How terribly obnoxious of you. Thanks for sharing. Well, it is probably not the smartest move ever to call monolingual people dumb. But here in Europe (or at least in most countries) learning a second language is compulsory in secondary school. Therefore not speaking a second language often goes along with a lack of general education, probably leading roelroelroel to this bovine conclusion.
Concept Mapping
« PreviousHomeNext » Social scientists have developed a number of methods and processes that might be useful in helping you to formulate a research project. I would include among these at least the following -- brainstorming, brainwriting, nominal group techniques, focus groups, affinity mapping, Delphi techniques, facet theory, and qualitative text analysis. Here, I'll show you a method that I have developed, called concept mapping, which is especially useful for research problem formulation. Concept mapping is a general method that can be used to help any individual or group to describe their ideas about some topic in a pictorial form.
An Instructional Design
This model or framework is a guide for designing a learning platform. Gather the Content Gather only the content (information and activities) that is essential for learning. Map the information as shown below and add activities to ensure you have gathered all the content (Merrill, 2002):
Find Your Ideal Bedtime with The Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire
Thanks for getting it rebooted! Thank you for getting it rebooted! My score is a 43. I'm "intermediate". This is actually an improvement over what I used to be until I was about 28. I would have probably scored a 16 then (definite evening).
Basics of mind/concept mapping
Directing your thinking series Many of us have learned to outline information in our studies, as: First item Second item sub item sub item sub sub item sub sub item Third item Alternatives to outlining are mind- and concept-mapping. How do I map?
40 Android Apps
A few weeks ago I invited readers to share their favorite iPad apps for the classroom, and the comments section features several good suggestions. Last week I asked readers to share their favorite Android apps for the classroom, and… well… we didn’t end up with nearly as many suggestions. I do not own an Android device, but I spent some time searching for apps that might prove useful for pedagogical purposes, and the list below is the result. (I’ve also made this information available as a spreadsheet on GoogleDrive, which you are free to copy and re-use however you like.)
Designing With Mind Maps
Mind maps are a fluid way to visualize ideas through a diagrammatic structure. They graphically depict the connections between related concepts and ideas. eLearning designers and developers are finding creative ways to use mind maps, like MindMeister and other applicaitons listed below, during analysis and design. Here are a few ways our peers are using mind maps.
I'm Felicia Day, and This Is How I Work
NO! Felicia Day! This makes me sad..
What is a Good Concept Map? - Degree Programme in Computer Science and Engineering
In constructing a concept map, the aim is to find essential concepts of a topic and their relationships. The goal is to find clear concepts and relationships that can be described with one or at the most few words. Usually, the concept map cannot be finished on one session. Drawing a map is a learning process where concepts and relationships are added, deleted or changed.
oppia
Oppia is a versatile tool that enables non-technical users to create interactive online educational activities (called 'explorations') that give immediate and personalized feedback to learners. These explorations are incrementally improvable by the community, and embeddable in any webpage. Oppia is free and open source software. It is released under the Apache License 2.0. Hosted versions of Oppia
Action mapping: A visual approach to training design
Action mapping is a streamlined process to design training in the business world. Its goal is to help designers: Commit to measurably improving the performance of the businessIdentify the best solution to the performance problemWhen training is necessary, create challenging simulations, not information presentations I created the process in May 2008, when I was designing custom elearning for corporate clients (here’s the first blog post about it).
Decoding Food Expiration Dates - DailyFinance Savings Experiment
The truth is, there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to food expiration dates. Before you clean out the fridge, find out how long you can keep certain products before they actually go bad. Think twice before you clean out your fridge. "Sell by" and "best by" dates are vague indicators of when quality and taste decline, so you can actually keep certain products for longer before they go bad.
How to make a concept map
"A good way to define the context for a concept map is to construct a Focus Question, that is a question that clearly specifies the problem or issue the concept map should help to resolve. Every concept map responds to a focus question, and a good focus question can lead to a much richer concept map"[1] (Cañas and Novak) When you feel you have a focus question that gets to the heart of the subject you intend to map, you will add boxes containing the concepts related to the question. Where you can, add linking phrases showing how the concepts are related, but if you have not decided how they are linked, leave the linking phrase empty or the concepts unattached. Building a concept map - a concrete example Let us suppose that you have been asked to prepare a paper on the place of reason and emotion in management.
