Concept Maps in Teaching

Below is a brief overview of some of the benefits and ways to use concept maps with your students. we have pulled out from reading some of the literature in this regard.

Benefits of Concepts Maps for students

• Provide students with nonlinear visual ways to understand, produce, and represent knowledge.
• Help develop higher-order thinking skills including analytical skills.
• Facilitate the recall and processing of information.
• Help students externalize their knowledge and show their understanding.
• Make explicit structural forms of knowledge and relationships between concepts and therefore enhance students comprehension.
• They attend to different learning styles.
• They engage students in meaningful learning activities.
• They are effective organizational tools students can use to organize their knowledge.
• Visual representations of knowledge is proved to both stimulate and increase brain activity (Marzono, 1998, cited in Birbili, 2006).
• Boost social interaction, communication and collaborative team work.
• They can be used in different content areas and with students from different grades.

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