"argument mapping and context curation with mindmaps" by sherry jones (november 25, 2014)
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Argument Mapping and Context Curation with MindmapsSherry JonesPhilosophy, Rhetoric, Game Studies“Hunt & Gather: Digital Content Curation Tools for Organizing Ideas and Information” (Panel Presentation)Nov. 25, [email protected] @autnes
Mindmaps?
● A visual diagram of organized information.
● Generally used for note-taking, summarizing, classifying, identifying causality, problem solving, decision making, clarifying, organizing, studying, etc.
Argument?
● In my Philosophy and English courses, I assign mindmaps to help students develop skills in critical reading, reasoning, and argumentation.
● Mindmaps lay bare students’ thinking process.
Basic Structures of Reasoning
Premise, Conclusion
Students attend college to become prepared for the workplace, which increasingly requires technology use.
We should teach technology literacy in college.
(1) Students attend college to become prepared for the workplace, which increasingly requires technology use. Therefore, (2) we should teach technology literacy in college.
Co-Premises
Good students read books.
Good students are in the library.
(1) Good students read books. (2) Books are in the library. It would be reasonable to assume that (3) good students are in the library.
Books are in the library.
Independent Reasons
Consumers expect to receive reliable internet speed after paying a high monthly fee for internet connection.
ISPs should not be able to throttle internet connection speeds at will.
(1) ISPs should not be able to throttle internet connection speeds at will, (2) because consumers expect to receive reliable internet speed after paying a high monthly fee for internet connection. (3) Also, ISPs are performing illegal bait and switch by intentionally providing inconsistent internet speeds without telling the customers.
ISPs are performing illegal bait and switch by intentionally providing inconsistent internet speeds without telling the customers.
Mindmap Tools
http://mindmup.com
Mindmup
http://coggle.it
Coggle
http://debategraph.org
DebateGraph
Mindmapping Examples
Nicomachean Ethics
Nichomachean Ethics Books 1-5
Cultural Relativism
James Rachels: The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
Utilitarianism and Moral Saints
Susan Wolf on Utilitarianism and Moral Saints
Questions? Comments?
Sherry JonesPhilosophy, Rhetoric, Game Studies
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