week 2

Comments on the reading and class activity.
I think that Same has taught us a very effective way to organize our thoughts, i.e. the concept maps. The reading also talks about the concept maps, i.e. they can be uses in brainstorming, curriculm planning, concept formation etc. I tutor 2 kids, and recently I have used concept mapswith them in vocabulary building. I tell them to think about 5 concepts that go with a certain word and then attach them to the word node. Then based on their 5 concepts, they have to search a picture that best represents the node. They have found this technique really useful for englishvocabulary building.