How can one promote Mind Mapping to Grade School and High School students to help them in critical thinking skills? Well, you might say why not use Power Point Presentations, videos and overhead slides.

Hmm? Okay well, I totally agree with the Power Point Slides for presentation and have a similar online website "Flash Presentation" too. And here is an idea, which came from Mark Provo, Prep School Mathematics Teacher in a research paper he presented to the Online Think Tank a few years ago.

First you show Circle of the old way of learning. Here is information; The circle has a brain in it, then the categorizing and then the output into memory. Next reduce this slowly into a dot and say "The New Paradigm in Thinking" and then take the dot, which is the end of a dowel and rotate it into a line.

Then rotate that line into a circle. Then rotate that into a sphere, which is your decision matrix wheel (Mind Map) and then as it spins, start putting up your criteria in 3D. Well that is the "Flash Presentation" I envisioned when I saw a MindMap Diagram from the Human Knowledge Mind Map. I spun it in my mind.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/cypher2/WebMindMapBook.pdf

I have been getting ideas all day about making a "Triangle Model" or a "Diamond Model" and a "Snake Model" as well. But the abstract model I like best is using the one on page 7 of that free online MindMap book and use the diagram in the middle as the center of the Galaxy and the data coming in from the criteria in 3D. Well, I hope this information and insight will assist you in your quest to be the best in 2007.

"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is a guest writer for Our Spokane Magazine in Spokane, Washington

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