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What maps facilitate studying? Who should use them? | Maciej Walewski | TEDxMarcinekSchool


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so starring who likes to study exactly
nobody but it turns out that studying
can be fun especially when it comes to
things that we are passionate about in
fact each one of us has a favorite field
of expertise for me it is geography but
we all have different interests and we
all are different but what we do share
is the same struggle a struggle of
studying studying things that we don’t
like that we don’t care about and that
we find often just useless so how can
you make studying maybe not much more
amusing but at least more bearable
and look less like this first of all
what I propose is to find your own
learning style once a guy from New
Zealand named Fleming found the model in
which he proposed four different
learning styles what will be what will
be our benchmark today these are visual
learning auditory learning read/write
learning and kinesthetic learning about
65% of population are visual learners
they learn by looking at graphs and
charts they recall information better
when they are shown visually the notes
may look like it like this they contain
played plenty of colors drawings and
symbols auditory learners learn through
listening they may have problems with
drone instructions they prefer to talk
and listen about things they want to
learn next once kinesthetic learners
often called us needs to move they
wiggle top swing the legs bounce and
often just can’t seem to sit still well
if you are a kinesthetic learner then I
have bad news for you the school is not
a great place for you because it is just
too boring and finally not surprisingly
many teachers and students have a strong
preference for read for reading writing
learning their notes contain plenty of
warts all info written down actually if
they are if they are about to give a
speech or something like this they will
probably write down the whole text then
try to remember every single phrase
every single word in the exact order
well I’m not original at all I’m a
visual and what makes me a part of a big
of a great great majority but even if
you are in the same learning group as me
you can have different way of studying
you should have one you should have one
that suits you and your style best but
today I would like to share with you my
way of studying mind mapping my mind
mapping is a highly effective way of
getting information into my brain it
just well Bala balance because it is
both logical and creative way of
note-taking and note-making
that literally maps out all your ideas
it is meant to it is meant to increase
effect this mentoring increase
effectiveness of your work and
remembering as well as activate your
intuition it is also a great exercise
for your brain since it uses work of
both of its Huff’s you could actually
compare a map a mind map to the to a map
of the city city centre represents your
main idea main roads represent your key
thoughts in your thinking process
secondary roads represent your secondary
thoughts and so on mind mapping is
highly effective when it comes to
learning subjects that contain plenty of
definitions and long hard to remember
words I use it quite quite often
especially when it when I’m learning
biology sorry
well it is really effective when it
comes to learning subjects with plenty
of definitions and long hard to remember
words then can be somehow that can be
somehow connected connection is actually
a key word while considering the subject
of my napping because the most important
thing in making a great useful night map
is to create a network of connections
that will be easily absorbable for your
memory it relies only on your creativity
and the best mind maps are being made
while the authors that the minds go wild
so how to make a good mind map first of
all you need to prop a piece of paper
and pencil and crayons make sure that
you have at least four or five different
colors because these colors may work as
the code for your memory later I can’t
use if you use a paper right now of
course so my mind map will just pop up
on a slide as my main theme I will
choose global warming so the stop won’t
only be useful but also informative so
write your main theme that will be your
benchmark and the middle of the page now
when you have the centre of your city
you have to create main roads and
secondary roads your branches these
branches should radiate out and be
colorful and connected what’s on your
benches ought to be your key words the
essence of you at the essence of your
mind of your idea the process of
elaboration and organization plays the
big role and remembering and
understanding finally add some drawings
they need to represent your key words
the great thing about mind mapping is
that you can put your egg your ideas
down in any order as soon as they pop
into your head mmm you are not
constrained but you are not constrained
by thinking in order simply just throw
out any and all of your ideas then worry
about reorganizing them later I think
that my mapping is a is a highly
effective way of organizing stuff it
really makes my everyday it really makes
my everyday studying
yeah yeah and there it is my nothing an
idea worth spreading thank you very much
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