Instructional Strategy: Concept Formation (Concept Mapping)

Blooms Levels= 1, 2 (knowledge, comprehension)  

• Categorize learning (helps student group content based on certain characteristics)
• Classify objects, events, or ideas (allows student to form deeper level of comprehension; beyond surface level recognition)
• Explore ideas by making connections
• See relationships between items of information
• Develop and refine ability to recall and discriminate among key ideas to see commonalties and identify relationships
• Students form their own understanding of the concepts and the connections they identify
• Cause & Effect
• Compare items of information
• Collecting data
• Sequence items of information
• Students are active participants in their own learning
• Develop new and expanded meanings as information is organized and manipulated  

Other Technology that Facilitates Concept Formation

Writing/Presenting Tools

Blackboard Discussion Board

Padlet

Prezi

Educreations

Dipity

Thinglink Education

Animoto

Word/Concept Visualizers

Wordsift

Wordle

Google Draw

MindMeister

Bubbl.us

Infogr.am

Organizing Resources

Symbaloo

Google Drive 

Scoopit

Diigo

Evernote

Feedly