MIND MAPPING FOR EDUCATION | Mayumbula Michael Chikwililwa | TEDxUniversityofNamibia

Mind Mapping for Education
Rewire your mind.
Michael is currently managing his own IT Company - Vision Multimedia. He is a passionate public speaker who serves on the board of the Professional Speakers Association of Namibia (PSAN), in addition to being the current chairperson of the Seagulls Toastmasters Club. Michael believes that our greatest resource is the mind, and is committed to empowering willing people everywhere by revealing to them their true brain potential via the use of “Radiant Thinking & Mind Maps”.
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[@thomasteepe]

How can we use mind maps for problem solving? I've done some experiments - here's a short summary. I use the following three building blocks, which I can combine in different ways. Building block 1 - the sheet layout: I use an A4 sheet in landscape format and divide it in 3x3 boxes of equal size - there's no need for exactness and I do it without a ruler. Alternatively, I can use 3 columns and make boxes of different sizes - but at the beginning, 3x3 boxes are easier to handle. I fill the boxes in column 1, then in column 2 and then in column 3. Building block 2 - the box layout: I use each box for a simple small mind map. The size limit of the box will come as a surprise, but it has a number of advantages which I will describe in a moment. Instead of mind maps, I can use diagrams, ordinary text with indentations or math terms. Building block 3 - thinking tools: I can use thinking tools as topics for the small mind maps, to stimulate my thinking about the problem, like: What are key questions? What are my options? How can I split the problem into smaller parts? I find a personal collection of thinking tools very useful - I have a corkboard over my work table and can access dozens of tools and stimuli with one glance. For me, this process has four main advantages. First, a conventional mind maps works best with a couple of main branches of equal size. In problem solving however, I often want to develop only one or two branches over many steps, and this leads to an unsymmetrical, unbalanced mind map. Secondly, moving from one box to the next needs a moment of orientation - where do I stand, and what can I do next? This re-orientation happens much more often in the 3x3 layout than in an ordinary mind map. Thirdly, I find it easier to reflect on a previous thought in a new box than in a branch of an ordinary mind map. Fourth, the combination of mind maps and thinking tools seems very powerful to me. Some remarks: Depending on handwriting size, paper size and personal taste, we can experiment with 2x2, 3x3 or 4x4 boxes. As a fourth building block I'm using a zettelkasten to organize my sheets - but that's outside the scope of this comment.

[@politereminder6284]

What a GREAT talk! More African Ted talks please! 😃

[@fivelands4064]

Hi Mr Chikwililwa, I am thinking of your question: "Where are their hopes, where are their goals,where are their dreams?". I think you are very, very smart. Thank you for the presentation. Thanks TEDx.

[@daudabdel-aziz7496]

One of the clearest talks I've ever heard on any subject.

[@masetshwanasesoai7113]

Its so hard for me to speak English fluently please I need help

[@ericak5165]

Engaging, beautifully and eloquently delivered. Thank you so much!!

[@Allthingssaafari]

I almost didn’t watch this. Fantastic presentation

[@SuperOmedi]

Mind blowing presentation Michael. I take note..

[@DharmendraRaiMindMap]

Excellent talk on mind mapping Mayumbula Michael Chikwililwa !

[@TheUmuti]

Indeed, mind mapping develops all the faculties of the brain. One of clearests presentations!

[@peteallennh]

This is brilliant. Thank you! I will be teaching this (by example, of course) to my high-schooler as he enters his junior year.

[@md.ismailmorshed8261]

Excellent presentation. Loved it.

[@lindintuli2259]

enjoyed the presentation. great

[@NitrotheHedgie]

Fantastic! Thank You!!

[@PEGF4MG]

Excellent talk - wonderful clarity - full understanding :-)

[@satyeshchaudhary538]

Great Scholarly way of Teaching in lucid manner, thank you.

[@Street2SchoolNG]

This is brilliant! Thank you.

[@sapturnus]

Grand!

[@tomas_marques]

Great talk!

[@johnolorunnope6678]

Brilliant one boss

[@csf5538]

great talk, brilliant

[@wasiulhoque4786]

Energetic!

[@Yandipetal]

Awesome talk

[@willajackson8170]

Phenomenal!!!

[@martavera8772]

brilliant

[@mkaterinamk]

Thank you!

[@neerajvarmadatla2048]

This way of learning indeed required for present and future generations to enhance the education quality

[@masetshwanasesoai7113]

I need a friend whom I can speak with

[@joaovianeidasilva4310]

@@masetshwanasesoai7113 Sure! Among the pictures of all your friends you have in mind, select the one you want to speak with and call her/him.

[@festussignificance6540]

Thanks so much, I had thought of volumes I will have to cover to get tips on memory improvement skills, note taking and learning generally, but this an abridged presentation.

[@SombatYumuang1957]

👍👍😊Thank you 🙏💗

[@kyshn6085]

it's usful thnx

[@myrtillesm3532]

Fantastic. Thanks so much

[@osvaldosantos17]

Very good presentation, thanks Doctor

[@morpheusspirit6609]

Excellent!!

[@aigulbazylkhanova6715]

Great!!!

[@swadeshtaneja3512]

Very good speaker.

[@kaderyarou3288]

Sorry for the english errors as I m not a native. imagination = tasting = smelling= touching = hearing ? What about replacing Imagination by sensation (or feeling or representation or perception). As I was reading the comments of @Mark William North and @pilanceboil, I thought may be we are not just thinking in image as picture but in general as representation (picture,touch,odour,sound,taste...) from your 5 senses. Like Helen KELLER, deaf and mute who learned the word 'water' by touch or how we can remember the odour of a meal or a perfume long time after. The challenge now is to thing technics/methods to make association of touch,odour,taste to thing we want to learn

[@jonzachary2]

The problem with this is thought, I was super excited to begin my journey exploring mind maps because i have this project which encompases many cross references i thought mine maps would help me with, i thought it would organize them in a beautiful pattern, but if i have one branch extended out three branches away, on one side of the mind map, which i want to cross reference with a topic or three on the other side, because the point of the project is to see how parallel realms connect, like certain philosophes found from music to say three other realms via common denominators that the project highlights, i am finding it difficult to present it in a manner that is of chronological order yet still pays homeage in the moment as it's being understood, can someone direct me to a phenomena that could help me make this a beautiful snowflake?

[@chrisbreatheslove]

very cool. I found mind mapping apps for mac anybody it may be of use.

[@Wingedsou]

someone could tell me how to find key words in a text?

[@joaovianeidasilva4310]

In your question the key word is "key". Key is what will open the doors of you imagination.

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[@qonitabadegestm9989]

omG how very naive. here's how to reboot: homeschool the kids. don't send em to The state to get edjkated.

[@wesgoodman3611]

Qonita BadegesTM Right, Instituional education only makes you just knowledgeable enough to work basic jobs for the country’s economy, nothing more. Most Privately educated students generally go on to become mid level managers and some upper management, perhaps with college degrees. The rest are ‘groomed’ to become heirs to the captains of industry, only accessible with family connections or social connections deals. The outliers in the data are the self made business and social media/personalities. Even these are suspect and are likely owing someone for their success.