Topic for week of April 30, 2012:
Use of Bridge Maps – Bridge maps assist students with understanding relationships and analogies. How have you used a bridge map to show relationships or analogies in your teaching this week? What was the first pair and the second pair? What was the relating factor? Did the relating factor assist students with the understanding of the pairs? Did the student's Frame of Reference help guide the map?
Going a bit further – Give analogies to students in a variety of ways: give them a pair of words and ask for the relating factor; give a relating factor and ask for a pair of words that fits the relationship; give students the top of one relationship and the bottom of the other pair and ask them to try to complete the bridge map.
Please post your blog response to this topic by Friday, May 4, 2012.
This week in Computer Apps, we used the Bridge map to understand the difference between Relative and Absolute cell references. I had told the students some corny stories to help them relate something from the corny story to each concept, then we wrote the comparisons on the bridge map to help them relate the story to the concept.
ReplyDeleteThis week, in my Image Editing I class, we used the Bridge map to understand the differences between two parts of the transform command: scale and warp. We related scale to size and warp to change. We then went further and used a Bridge map to compare different subjects (e.g. English and Math). Seemed to work fairly well.
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