Mind Mapping for Critical Thinking

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Author(s): Roxanne M. O'Connell (Roger Williams University, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 33
Source title: Cases on Teaching Critical Thinking through Visual Representation Strategies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Leonard J. Shedletsky (University of Southern Maine, USA)and Jeffrey S. Beaudry (University of Southern Maine, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5816-5.ch014

Keywords: Curriculum Development and Instructional Design / Education / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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Mind mapping is a visual technique that exploits the way we actually think—through synaptic connections and non-linear associations. Because mind mapping gives practitioners, be they professional or student, access to subconscious observations and connections, it is a powerful thinking tool, useful in a variety of situations in business and in education. This chapter focuses on how mind mapping fosters the kind of flexible and organic thinking vital to critical thinking and the creative problem-solving process. It explains what is at work in the brain as we create new knowledge and how mind mapping exploits these processes to gain intuitive and concrete understanding in situations requiring critical thinking. A step-by-step outline of how to mind map in both individual and group settings is followed by examples of mind maps from both business and education.

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