Clark Quinn

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Concept Maps and Learning

Clark Quinn

However, a concept map does a better job of indicating the total knowledge representation. It provides a navigable knowledge resource that could be a valuable adjunct to teaching. As a personal example, when I was in high school, our school district decided that the American Civil War would be taught as modules.

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Comic openings

Clark Quinn

We know that activating relevant knowledge is important cognitively, but I suggest that it won’t stick as well unless you’ve piqued their awareness. However, my favorite approach is to humorously point out the consequences of not having the knowledge. (OK, Even for modules within an overall topic.

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More Marketing Malarkey

Clark Quinn

So, for Entertaining, this is the followup: “advocates the concept of learning through a sequence of smaller, focused modules.” The followup says: “Repetition, practice, and reinforcement can increase knowledge.” I do agree with Engaging (per the title of my first book), however, there’s a problem with it.

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Deeper activities

Clark Quinn

So for each module, I’m looking for a meaningful practice. For For even a knowledge based task, I’m asking learners to develop something that requires them to integrate the knowledge, not just present and test. And And revisit the knowledge several times. So,

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Listening

Clark Quinn

And it keeps the discussion from focusing on knowledge. Knowledge is needed, but it’s not central. In making the Workplace of the Future project with Learnnovators, we were barreling along full tilt, working on the second module, and I was getting increasingly worried about the fact that we hadn’t tested the first.

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