Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

New Orleans, Louisiana, March 12-15, 2009

Paper S056

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, ISBN 0-321-68983-6, Copyright (C) 2010 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Conceptual Mapping and Critical Thinking

Gerard Dotti


Greenville Technical College

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ABSTRACT

Concept maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge. They include concepts, usually enclosed in circles or boxes of some type, and relationships between concepts indicated by a connecting line linking two concepts. This paper discusses how this tool can be used with the topic of critical thinking and incorporated into their specific area of instruction. Includes instructions on how to use CmapTools, a powerful software from the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition available online free to educators.

Keyword(s): pedagogy