One of the over-arching activities was to expand upon our definition and understanding of constructivism through the use of a digital medium called cMap. I liked this medium because if fosters deep thinking and visual knowledge construction. I also like that it forces you to be succinct. Boxes represent concepts and users are encouraged to think of a connection or relationship between the concepts through words."This process involves what Bloom (1956) identified as high levels of cognitive performance, namely evaluation and synthesis of knowledge" (Novak & Canas, 2006). 

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A main criticism I do have of the medium is in how you share your finished artifacts. In order for maps to be visible to the public like below, you must store the file on cMap's over-crowded and poorly organized cloud servers. Ultimately, this makes the application fairly inaccessible to younger users like my grade three students.