Mind Mapping

1. Interactive Learning Systems MindMapping Radiant Thinking for Visual Learning By Sherrin Bennett Interactive Learning Systems

2. Light up your brain • Your brain will do more for you if you understand how it works • The structure of your brain is the giant branching of nodes in a network • Chemical and electrical impulses light up your mind as the energy flows through the network Interactive Learning Systems

3. Radiant thinking follows patterns in nature • Connect ideas in your mind map to a central idea like the dendrites do the neurons in your brain Interactive Learning Systems

4. The map tells it how you want it to link new ideas to key questions and to what you already know Think of it as a tree with a trunk, branches, and twigs Grow each other’s ideas Linking your thinking Mind maps are structured to match your brain Core question goes here ???? Use color to cluster related concepts Interactive Learning Systems

5. Growing our knowing • Knowledge is often used and shared among people who work at common tasks • As we link what we know with one another, take action and reflect on our experience, new knowledge is generated • Innovation happens at the intersections of our knowing– where diverse disciplines or perspectives co-create new understanding • Mind maps are a tool for growing and improving working knowledge Interactive Learning Systems

6. Cartography & CognitionMapping is relational thinking Share your working maps Visualize the unknown Log your explorations Recognize new patterns Challenge your own assumptions Establish a few landmarks Make new connections Interactive Learning Systems

7. Infomural• keynotes for a symposium on eLearning Interactive Learning Systems

8. Infomural• Complex Adaptive Systems Aspen Institute Interactive Learning Systems

9. Visual Tools for Collaborative Work produce shared understanding and commitment Groups drafting national policy and preparing a joint publication Interactive Learning Systems