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Understanding Facts and Ideas in the Context of a Conceptual Framework Understanding facts and ideas in the context of a conceptual framework is the key to transfer learning and the goal of education. The Learner Needs a Conceptual Framework or Big Picture
It is the organizing of knowledge that expands its potential meanings. The brain seeks to interconnect all new experience with prior knowledge and everything the learner can do to help organize information for the brain makes it easier to retrieve and more applicable in new situation. Mind Maps Mind mapping is a learning tool for graphically organizing information to show connections and relationships. For example, psychological disorders are defined around abnormal behavior; Below is a mind map of the meaning of abnormal behavior.
It is essential that the learner either brings a conceptual framework of prior knowledge, or that they build one with the help of the textbooks’s author, or with help from the instructor or all the preceding to the learning experience; otherwise learning is shallow. For example, the psychology textbook the introductions in each chapter can provide the context for learning facts and ideas presented in later in each chapter. This provides you as the learner the opportunity to broadly define overarching concepts about psychology and systematically organize them so that later learning can be deeper and transferable. You will learn how to use graphic organizers to visually develop a conceptual framework within which all new facts and ideas relate.
Thinking
Abnormal Behavior Social Interaction
Mental Illness
Behavior
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