Strategy for students USTA

1. Mind Mapping
ADAPTED BY: PROF. MARGARITA ARAQUE

2. 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.

3. 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!

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Mind Map Samples
 Possible Mind Map for this Lecture

9.  Possible Map to organize an Essay

10. More color and Detail!

11. Example:
Donna’s Mind
Map for Fem
Theory Book

12. 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

13. Stickies & Highlighters!
It´s always fun!

14. Web Stickies?

15. 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