Carol Lindsey
Joined: 18 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:07 am Post subject: Panama is the first country adopting Cmaps nationwide |
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The Cmap software was designed to literally map out what scientists know in diagram form.
And now The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition is providing the concept mapping software to individual schools as well as training teachers in Panama.
Software, first designed to preserve scientists' knowledge now can be used as a tool to help children learn.
Cmaps can be used to assess student knowledge, encourage thinking and problem solving instead of rote learning, organize information for writing projects and help teachers write new curricula.
Gaspar Tarte, who is spearheading education reform in Panama as the country's secretary of governmental innovation, wrote: We need to move education from a memorizing system and repetitive system to a dynamic system. We would like to use tools and a methodology that helps children construct knowledge, concept maps was the best tool that we found.
A Cmap is a series of concepts, usually nouns, linked by phrases or verbs.
To view details about this approach -
Fla. Concept Mapping Idea Going Global
To try this software-
Cmap Home Site |
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