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The document discusses concept mapping (CM) as a teaching tool that helps learners organize their cognitive framework, promotes active involvement, and enhances meaningful learning through visual representation. It outlines the advantages of CM, such as fostering critical thinking, collaborative learning, and improving exam scores, while also addressing its disadvantages, including time consumption and student resistance to change. The document emphasizes the importance of CM in the teaching and learning of science, providing a structured approach to understanding concepts.

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Slides Conceptmapping

The document discusses concept mapping (CM) as a teaching tool that helps learners organize their cognitive framework, promotes active involvement, and enhances meaningful learning through visual representation. It outlines the advantages of CM, such as fostering critical thinking, collaborative learning, and improving exam scores, while also addressing its disadvantages, including time consumption and student resistance to change. The document emphasizes the importance of CM in the teaching and learning of science, providing a structured approach to understanding concepts.

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Concept Mapping

Dr F Voigt
EDBS 311 - 2025

UKZN INSPIRING GREATNESS


Design Features of a Differences between
CMs Create Fours Mind maps and CMs
Lists
Class Activty

Advantages of CMs
Disadvantages of CMs
Concept mapping
Why it is used in teaching & learning of science
(Dhull & Verma, 2020; Elhelou, 1997)
 Concept mapping: It is a tool that helps a learner to organize
their cognitive framework into more powerful integrated
patterns.
 It allows learner to be actively involved
 Learner Centered – Learners can work at their own speed
 It is a higher order task as it requires understanding
Concept mapping
Why it is used in teaching & learning of science
(Dhull & Verma, 2020; Elhelou, 1997)
• It combines visual learning with the spatial representation of
information to promote meaningful conceptual learning.
• It involves listing the main ideas/concepts and words and
arranging these in a hierarchy or relation to each other
Concept mapping
Why it is used in teaching & learning of science
(Dhull & Verma, 2020; Elhelou, 1997)
• It is a powerful tool to help learners work with text
• a) reading: finding those main ideas/ concepts.
• b) It helps learner to write as it provides a structure.
• (DART = directed activities related to text)
• It is a learning and evaluation tool.
Concept mapping Advantages
(Wang, 2019; Machado & Carvalho, 2020)

 Concept mapping (CM) organizes concepts, which promote


meaningful learning.
 CM promotes critical thinking and problem solving.
 It promotes collaborative learning.
 CM promotes knowledge retention, identify misconceptions, and provide
feedback to students.
 It promotes technology inclusion.
 CM promotes learning progress and assessment.
 It has a positive effect on exam scores.
Concept mapping
Disadvantages & Limitations
(Wang, 2019; Machado & Carvalho, 2020)

 Concepts & connections: In CM, it is easier to define


concepts than their connections.
 Time-consuming: Time required to create concept maps only
diminish with experience.
 Student resistance to change: Most students usually prefer
rote memorization of concepts. CM forces them out of their
comfort zones into meaningful learning patterns.
 Concept explanation: It is like a jigsaw puzzle that deprive
students the interpretation of the concept itself.
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