How Do You Apply Critical Thinking To Concept Mapping?
Concept mapping is the visualization of a logical design. The purpose of this mapping is to make explicit what a certain concept or idea entails. In concept mapping, an idea is permitted to be “unpacked” of all its implicit or explicit content in a way that appeals to visual learners. Mapping can convey information that simple verbalization cannot. Choose a word, idea or symbol that the map should center around. This is the concept that is to be “unpacked” of all its content. If you are studying the causes of cancer, then cancer is then your central idea. Once the idea of cancer is laid out in visual form, each aspect of the disease can be further broken down into its proximate and indirect causes. Each of those causes can then be mapped out in terms of their causes. This can continue as long as necessary to exhaust the subject matter. Approach the subject matter to be mapped in a top-down model. Going from the most general to the more specific is the easiest way to do concept mapping
