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