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Vicki Matthews, Primary School Teacher and BLI, recently highly recommended  Sir Ken Robinson's book, "The Element - How finding your passion changes everything". (The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion)

A great read, very insighful and lots of stories of how very famous people found thier element.

I particularly liked the story of how Mind Maps helped unlock our natural intelligences to remember vast amounts of information. Here is an extract in the chapter of In the Zone [pages 96-97]...

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Just reading Sir Ken Robinson's book, "The Element - How finding your passion changes everything". (The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion)

A great read, very insighful and lots of stories of how very famous people found thier element.

I particularly liked the story of how Mind Maps helped unlock our natural intelligences to remember vast amounts of information. Here is an extract in the chapter of In the Zone [pages 96-97]...

  Read more

Vicki Matthews, Teacher and BLI, recently highly recommended  Sir Ken Robinson's book, "The Element - How finding your passion changes everything". (The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion)

A great read, very insighful and lots of stories of how very famous people found thier element.

I particularly liked the story of how Mind Maps helped unlock our natural intelligences to remember vast amounts of information. Here is an extract in the chapter of In the Zone [pages 96-97]...

  Read more

Vicki Matthews, Teacher and BLI, recently highly recommended  Sir Ken Robinson's book, "The Element - How finding your passion changes everything". (The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion)

A great read, very insighful and lots of stories of how very famous people found thier element.

I particularly liked the story of how Mind Maps helped unlock our natural intelligences to remember vast amounts of information. Here is an extract in the chapter of In the Zone [pages 96-97]...

  Read more

Just reading Sir Ken Robinson's book, "The Element - How finding your passion changes everything". (The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion)

A great read, very insighful and lots of stories of how very famous people found thier element.

I particularly liked the story of how Mind Maps helped unlock our natural intelligences to remember vast amounts of information. Here is an extract in the chapter of In the Zone [pages 96-97]...

  Read more

Bill Jarrard (senior BLI) just shared an email from a university professor he has been mentoring, who wanted to know how to evaluate a student's Mind Map. See below for his response.

It prompted me to ask if you have recently developed any rubrics or techniques to evaluate a Mind Map.

What cool props do you use to demonstrate abstract concepts??

The Memory Mavern has been known to pull out a rubber chicken in her memory talks to make a point about ‘be careful of what you are remembered for”

Refer Jennifer's Comments below

One of the key concepts of Mind Mapping is harnessing the brain’s natural thinking processes. Thoughts, ideas, concepts radiate from the central/starting point and can go in any direction.

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Did you know… Improving memory and using Mind Maps improves self esteem.

“Grade 5 literacy support students were introduced to memory techniques to illustrate that they possessed the ability to remember. This was necessary as they all thought they had “bad brains”.

They would say “my brain is not as good as so and so’s”. So we said “Your memory is as good as anybody else’s, I am going to show you how you can prove it”.

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Did you know… Improving memory and using Mind Maps improves self esteem.

“Grade 5 literacy support students were introduced to memory techniques to illustrate that they possessed the ability to remember. This was necessary as they all thought they had “bad brains”.

They would say “my brain is not as good as so and so’s”. So we said “Your memory is as good as anybody else’s, I am going to show you how you can prove it”.

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