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Teaching Tips

Choose related sources and help students examine classification, evidence, and connections.

Choose Your Sources

The first memo provides local people, settings, and resources. The second adds outside settings and broader conditions relevant to the same situation. Make their relationship clear in the assignment, and check that both sources contain passages students can use as evidence.

Discuss an Interpretation

You can select a node on the map, read its quotation, and discuss its label and classification. Then draw a connection and explain its direction and wording. Students make all relationships, so allow time for them to work out what they want each line to say.

Discuss Placement

Ask how the focal people participate in a setting and how an influence reaches them. A service provider can be local when students work with it directly. An office or institution can belong at Exo when its decisions affect them indirectly. Distinguish the policy or broader condition from the office that administers it.

Check the Evidence

The app may add fewer than ten nodes or none at all, and Notebook lists proposals it left out. Check whether the memo supports the proposed placement before asking for more output. Students can add supported nodes manually and explain uncertainty in their interpretations or optional Field Notes.

Read the Work

Ask for a project link or exported copy when you need to read a student's map. Course progress records can help you see whether work has been saved, while the shared map provides its evidence and interpretation. Make your own assignment expectations clear, including whether you want Field Notes.