Module 2: Techniques in Selecting and Organizing Information Flashcards
An informal way of generating topics to write about, or points to make about your topic. Ideas are gathered and listed from the input member.
Brainstorming
Simply involves listing ideas about a particular topic. Requires you to write the main topic and them write down all related concepts below it.
Idea List
Is a visual representation of ideas and their connections with one another. Also called webbing or clustering.
Idea Map
An idea is examined from six distinct viewpoints.
- You describe the topic (what is it?)
- Compare and contrast it (what is it like or unlike?)
- What do you associate it with (what does it remind you of?)
- Analyze it (what are its parts?)
- Apply it (in what ways can it be utilized)
- Argue for or against it (in what ways can you support or oppose it)?
Cubing (Six sides)
It allows someone to work without inhibitions. Just write.
Free Writing
You go to the library or check out websites on the internet. Make a list or map of the new ideas.
Researching
A visual and graphic display that depicts the relationships between facts, terms, and or ideas within a learning task.
Graphic Organizers
Works well for mapping generic information, but particularly well for mapping hierarchical relationships
Descriptive or Thematic Map
Organizing a hierarchical set of information, reflecting superordinate or subordinate elements
Network Tree
When the information relating to a main idea or theme does not fit into a hierarchy
Spider Map
When information contains cause and effect problems and solutions
Problem and Solution Map
Helps students to compare different solutions to a problem
Problem and Solution Outline
Useful for mapping cause and effect
Sequential Episodic Map
When cause-effect relationships are complex and non- redundant
Fishbone Map
Can help students to compare and contrast two concepts according to their features
Comparative and Contrastive Map
