Nov. 25, 2014 - I presented a panel presentation on content curation as part of college teaching and learning practices. The panel was held at ACC.

1. Argument Mapping and Context
Curation with Mindmaps
Sherry Jones
Philosophy, Rhetoric, Game Studies
“Hunt & Gather: Digital Content Curation Tools for
Organizing Ideas and Information” (Panel Presentation)
Nov. 25, 2014
sherryjones.edtech@gmail.com
@autnes

2. Mindmaps?
● A visual diagram of
organized information.
● Generally used for note-taking,
summarizing,
classifying, identifying
causality, problem solving,
decision making, clarifying,
organizing, studying, etc.

3. 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.

4. Basic Structures of
Reasoning

5. 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.

6. Co-Premises
Good students read books.
Books are in the library.
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.

7. Independent Reasons
Consumers expect to receive reliable
internet speed after paying a high
monthly fee for internet connection.
ISPs are performing illegal bait and
switch by intentionally providing
inconsistent internet speeds without
telling the customers.
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.

8. Mindmap Tools

9. Mindmup
http://mindmup.com

10. http://coggle.it
Coggle

11. DebateGraph
http://debategraph.org

12. Mindmapping Examples

13. Nicomachean Ethics
Nichomachean Ethics Books 1-5

14. Cultural Relativism
James Rachels: The Challenge of
Cultural Relativism

15. Utilitarianism and Moral Saints
Susan Wolf on Utilitarianism and
Moral Saints

16. gMOOC Theory
The Architecture of gMOOCs

17. Questions? Comments?
Sherry Jones
Philosophy, Rhetoric, Game Studies
Writings & Webcasts
sherryjones.edtech@gmail.com
@autnes