Monday, March 26, 2012

Thing #14




I found these to be very similar to the spiderwebs we did as kids for papers. Where you place your main idea in the center and then branch your different paragraph topics out to the side of the main idea. These are very helpful when you are trying to find ways of working your paper/project into a whole. I personally still find myself using these from time to time when it comes  time to come up with ideas for papers. I will do some basic research to see if I can come up with enough information on a topic to decide if that topic is worth writing about. There is nothing worse then to but in 5 hours of research and then discovering that there just isn't enough out there to write that 10 page paper you need. The new flowcharts and mind maps would be very useful in the classroom since so much is done on the computers now. A child is more likely to be willing to spend the time working on making a mind map to map out their research.

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