These concept maps, or Mind Maps as they're sometimes called, are an appealing and useful way to synthesize collective knowledge...they need to be skillfully used, however, by a teacher in a classroom situation when collating students' ideas in a group-sharing activity...I'll report back on how I get on :)
FFI:
- See here
- Underlying Theory of Concept maps
- also here (Wikipedia entry on Mind Mapping)
- and here (Google's Book cache of Teaching High School Science through Inquiry)
- Embedding Mind Maps into Wikimedia - useful in the classroom
