So what's up today is our week 7 and 5th blog in Educational Technology and its me again your boy Carlo so we will talking about the Mind Mapping that had been given today in our subject educational Technology 2 .
So what is Mind Mapping? Mind Mapping is a graphical way to represent ideas and concept. It is a visual thinking tool that helps structuring information, helping you to better analyze, comprehend, synthesize, recall and generate new ideas. So for me base on the picture Mind Mapping is a tool that organize or plan the idea or thoughts that is in our mind. it also show us how our ideas organize, how our ideas related to each other and how our ideas can be expand from specific to general that will help us to easily understand and be a better thinker.
So Why Mind Mapping? Mind Mapping increases our creativity and productivity because it is an excellent tool to let you generate more ideas, identify relationships among the different data and information, and effectively improve your memory and retention. it is also promotes bigger-picture thinking, improved problem-solving, and is a valuable for team collaboration.
Who Needs Mind Maps? Mind Maps use by everyone and anyone can benefit from this powerful technique. Whether you’re writing an essay or planning an event, Mind Maps can be used by a variety of people for a variety of purposes. but lets emphasizes this Children, Students and teacher who needs mind maps as help in their teaching and learning process.
Children
Mind mapping can significantly improve children's cognitive development. the composition of mind maps - mostly with colors, shapes, words and images is good for stimulating the development of both kids logical and creative side of the brain. Kids at preschool and school age can all benefit from mind maps. Preschool children can start learning how to connect words, colors, and images and understand the basic matching diverse form. with mind mapping can also be taught the basic concept of studying and doing homework. therefore, kids at school age can be learn how to brain storm, work in teams, prepare school presentation and more.
Students
Whether in high-school or university, students can use mind maps for studying new lessons and preparing for exams. Foe the lessons that are usually more voluminous ans extensive, the composition of mind maps can facilitate the process of learning and memorizing important facts. When it comes to exams, the traditional ways of preparing, lately is getting out of use and students are looking for new ways that make the learning process more effective and efficient. Mind Mapping is an example because it allows them graphically present the most important information of the lessons which later can be easily recalled. By including colors, images and words students can enhance their learning and memorizing skills.
Teacher
Teachers, be that in elementary school, high school or university can use mind mapping as well. While students use it as learning technique, teachers use teaching technique. Every teacher has a unique personal method of lecturing and sharing their knowledge. However, implementing mind maps as a teaching methods is great for both sides in the classroom. On one hand, it helps teacher to deliver their lesson in an effective way by emphasizing all key points. On other hand, it supports the improvement of students memory, learning and communicating skills.
Mind Map history and uses? Mind maps have a long history, dating back to the third century. Early thinkers and philosophers used graphic designs to diagram various concepts, words and ideas that related to a central thought. Mind maps are a visual method for recording thoughts and related ideas graphically. It works by using one central keyword or idea and surrounding it with a brainstorm style shower of thoughts that somehow relate to that central word. The beauty of the mind map is that it is a very freestyle way to collect and organize information, without being restricted to a particular structure. Use of connecting lines, colors and symbols work together to boost visual perception of the physical map and to increase memory retention of the information.
But what can we use mind maps for?
- Note taking
- Brainstorming (individually or in groups)
- Problem solving
- Studying and memorization
- Planning
- Researching and consolidating information from multiple sources
- Presenting information
- Gaining insight on complex subjects
- Jogging your creativity
How learning Mind Mapping relevant to Educators in creating lesson plan, Course Syllabus and Curriculum development?
Mind mapping is a good tool in both teaching and learning process. Making a lesson plan is essential to teaching, but it's usually time consuming. For teachers, mapping a lesson plan can not only save them time but also show a clear picture of the lesson on the whole where you can organize and sequence the process of your teaching, also to allow you to create a creative activity where your students can actively engage to your lesson. Mind Mapping help us also Educator in creating a course syllabus because it allows us to organize or layout each topic in order and by showing how the ideas, topic, subtopic are related to each other that will help the student to easily understand the whole subject and become aware to the expected learning outcome. Mind Mapping also help us educator in developing our Curriculum where they can structure a better plan for the courses, content, learning experience base on what the student need to learn. Mind mapping is a very helpful tool especially in our teaching and learning process technique that show us on how our ideas organize, how our ideas related to each other and how our ideas can be expand from specific to general that will help us to easily understand the idea and be a better thinker.
That's all Thank you for reading!
Photo Credits:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4837961522896597&set=gm.892086244631380&type=3&theater&ifg=1
References:
https://litemind.com/what-is-mind-mapping/#:~:text=A%20mind%20map%20is%20a,recall%20and%20generate%20new%20ideas.
https://mindmapsunleashed.com/the-mind-mapping-concept#:~:text=Making%20a%20mind%20map%20is,hampered%20like%20linear%20thinking%20does.
https://www.imindq.com/blog/13-different-user-profiles-that-use-mind-maps
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