2009年7月25日星期六

Learn a language with mind mapping

Mind mapping
Creating mind maps or mind mapping is using a paper and pencil to draw out maps of connections between two or more ideas. You can use mind maps to learn a language with grammatical ideas, vocabulary and even conversational ideas such as question and answer. Mind maps look like neurons and dendrites or trees. This is not by coincidence. It is a refection how natural structures create connetion, including your memory. Each person draws a mind map in a different way. Some are clean and orderly others seem to be pure chaos. It does not matter. Your style of mind mapping is your style. You can use colors, pictures or whatever you want to make your mind map beautiful or fun.
Mind mapping and language learning
For me personally, I use mind maps to learn target vocabulary in a language. These mind maps often contain phonetics, and word building, but most important categorization. I am not good at drawing pictures, but I add a few once in a while. My mind maps are more like mazes with starting and ending points and many entrances and exits.
For example I will have a mind map with ten entry points, let us way for example connected with transportation vocabulary. For transportation, vocabulary I might have choices or verbs or nouns or adjectives connected with transportation, this route on my mind maps could wind all over the place, with further subcategories and pictures of brides and roads until I find an exit.
Why mind mapping works
I do not believe there are any magic pills to learn a language, except maybe with music; however, I think the act of mind mapping is what helps you learn a language. Creating drawing and planning your mind map is a fun break from learning a word list. Physically drawing the words and thinking about it is why mind mapping works. Maybe there are other reasons, but I have been learning and teaching languages for years and I believe every-way is a good way to learn a language and there are no great secrets other than putting the time in. However, if you enjoy what you are doing than the time you spend will seem like play or no time at all. Further there are efficient ways to learn a language and inefficient ways to learn a language. I think mind mapping is one of the more efficient ways to learn a language.

D5 SECE The future Chapter 29

Towards a radiant thinking and mentally literate world
FOREWORD
Trends to expore the most magic organ in this world has been shown that there will be a future for human based on our MENTAL LITERACY
MENTAL LITERACY
ALL these trends reflect the increasing international drive towards Mental Literacy defined thus:
Standard and numerical literacy involve an outstanding of the alphabets of letter and numbers and their infinite permutations and conbinations. Mental Literacy is an understanding of the alphabets of the biological and behavioural aspects of your brain,including especially the cortex,the brain cell,learing,memory and creativity.
  1. The mental literate individual
  2. The mental literate family
  3. The mental literate organisation
  4. The mental literate society
  5. The mental literate civilisation

Radiant Thinking -Radiant future

In our increasing understanding of this incredibly complex and mysterious organ, in our increasing understand of family of mankind -ourselves and our radiant fellow humans- and in our increasing understanding of the inter-connectedness and relativity of all things,lies our hope for future.

Example two of shor presentation


short exmaples of new ways of thinking


D5 secA Problem solving using mind map


Problem Solving with Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping
Problem solving is one of the key skills required to be successful at work, but finding speedy and imaginative solutions to the challenges and difficulties that inevitably arise is not an easy task. When confronted with a problem, all too often, we try to 'force' our brain into coming up with a solution. Not only is this a poor way to resource our creativity but this approach can result in stress while our mind wrestles with the problem. Straining your brain in this way will not result in a satisfactory solution. Alternatively, Mind Mapping is a far more effective way to attain clarity and answers. It will help you view the problem as a positive challenge, an opportunity to demonstrate your skills and flex your creative muscles.

D5secA Personal use of SELF-ANALYSIS


It is helpful to begin with a 'complete picture'self-analysis MIND MAP,which includes as many as possible of your major characteristics and personality traits.

Here are four stages:


  1. Preparation of your environment

  2. Quick-fire MIND MAP burst

  3. Reconstruction and revision

  4. Desicion making

CREATIVE THINKING D4 chapter 16

Foreword
Gain major insight by expanding your creativity Mind Mapping method.
AIMS OF CREATIVE MIND MAPPING
  1. To explore all the creative possiblities of a given subject
  2. To clear space for new ceative thought
  3. To generate idears that result in specific action being taken,or physical reality being created or changed
  4. To encourage more consistent creative thinking
  5. To create new conceptual frameworks whithin which prevoius ideas can be reorganised
  6. To capture and develop'flashes' of insight when they occur.
  7. To plan creativity

BENEFITS of this MINDMAP

  1. utilise all the creative thinking skills
  2. increase the probablity of gainng new insight
  3. reinforce and buttres the incubation process,increase the probability of the generation og new ideas.