Mind MappingADAPTED BY: PROF. MARGARITA ARAQUE

Why Mind Mapping?

Drawings have been used for centuries to analyze problems and map out information

Unless you retain and review what you have learned, you are likely to lose 80% of it within 24 hours.

What is mind mapping?

Unless you train your memory it is likely to get worse over time, not better.

Retention is the art of storing new information or skills, but learning needs to be Meaningful!!

Recall is the art of retrieving it when you need it.

Learning stays for life!

A Recall Strategy

Mind Mapping trains your

mind for more efficient

retention and recall.

Mind maps are tools which

help you think and learn.

University students agree

mind maps are useful.

Understanding is not recall

Understanding something is not sufficient to remember it.

Thinking that you understand what you have seen, heard, or read is different than can actually short-circuit your memory.

Mental associations are also necessary for recall.

Mind Mapping reinforces understanding and gives a visual framework for organizing ideas and making associations.

Compact notes improve recall

Learning without note taking

forces you to go back and

review from scratch.

Taking extensive notes provides

too much information and too

few memory cues.

Mind Maps store everything you

need on one page, and encode

the information in memory-rich

nuggets for easy recall.

Most importantly

Use key words, symbols, and

pictures packed with meaning

and associations that work for

you.

Weave them together by color,

positioning, outlines, or arrows

But the most important weaving

for memory is creating mental

associations

Mind Map Samples Possible Mind Map for this Lecture

Possible Map to organize an Essay

More color and Detail!

Example:

Donna’s Mind

Map for Fem

Theory Book

Other strategies for Reading

Your reading skills will improve

dramatically if you use

intentional strategies: Read actively and carefully

Review your reading and write notes

periodically

Stickies & Highlighters!

It´s always fun!

Web Stickies?

Resources

1. Use Your Head, by Tony Buzan, part of the BBC Mind Set Series, is the classic book for learning how your brain is better than you think, improving your reading, memory, and study methods, from the originator of Mind Mapping. Visit:

http://www.buzancentres.com

2. The Brain Book, by Peter Russell, is a superb introduction to the facts and theories which support Mind Mapping as the most effective tool to support memory, note taking, reading, and learning. For a brief history of how memory techniques in history developed into the technique of Mind Mapping,

visit: http://www.mind-map.com/EN/mindmaps/history/memory_techniques.html

William Reed, Buzan Mind Mapping® Instructor

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Mind Mapping STRATEGIES Jan 2005 Making the most of your memory