PENSACOLA, Fla. --A research institute here is taking software designed in part to preserve scientists' knowledge and giving it to schools around the world as a tool to help children learn. The ...

Concept maps begin with a main idea and then branch out to show how that main idea can be broken down into specific topics. Used as a learning and teaching technique, concept mapping visually ...

Developing students' critical-thinking skills has recently received attention at all levels of education. This article proposes the use of concept-mapping tools to improve students' critical-thinking ...

This article reviews three major uses of the concept-mapping strategies for postsecondary learning: the external representation of concept maps as an external scratch pad to represent major ideas and ...