Contents Overview Bring on Leo Where we goin’? Multiple what? Maps & learning Creativity Examples Breakthrough Say goodnight

Einstein

Overview

Not only Academic but success in life requires various competencies, among them the ability to know and use a variety of tools and techniques to generate and organize information and ideas.

Everything begins with the way we think, leading to the way we act and behave. By changing the way we think, we can find new ways to do things better and better in every aspect of our lives. Mind maps are a profound tool for effective thinking.

This is not a new idea……………

Creativitydoesn’tComeFromstructure

He had over 13,000 pages of notes.

How he recorded and organised his notes in numerous notebooks is famous

Most of us have trouble organising our thoughts.

Learning rather than teaching The main evidence that learning is changing is the increasing reference to

learning rather than teaching, and how to identify what identifying what to learn from the . This has a number of implications:

• A focus on teaching as a process for facilitating learning, rather than a set of skills for transmitting knowledge.

• An emphasis on learners as individuals with differing needs, rather than a homogeneous group of people with similar requirements.

• The learner as one who is expected (and empowered) to make

decisions about what their learning needs are, both in terms of content, style and continuing professional development.

Multiple IntelligencesThe theory of Multiple Intelligences was developed by Dr Howard Gardner in 1983. He originally proposed that each of us possesses at least seven measurable intelligences. Here are seven of them together with genius exemplars.

•Logical-mathematical: Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, Marie curie

•Verbal-linguistic: William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson

•Spacial-mechanical: Michelangelo, Buckminster fuller

•Musical-Mozart: George Gershwin, Ella Fitzgerald

•Kinaesthetic: Morihei Ueshiba Mohammed Ali

•Interpersonal-social: Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Ghandi, Queen Elizabeth 1st

•Intrapersonal – social (self-knowledge) Mother Teresa, Viktor Frankl

Mindmaps in the classroom

Aids writing assignments

Students motivated to say and write more in the class

Enjoy expressing their ideas and sharing them with the group

Memory tool

Brain is not very good at linear processing

Helps with reading too!

Let’sgetcreative There are four major creative skills that can be taught to students:

Fluency - the ability to produce a large number of ideasFlexibility - the ability to make connections between unrelated conceptsOriginality - the ability to make unique ideasElaboration - the ability to manipulate and idea and work on it until it is well-formed

(Fredericks 2005)

The first skill is important in the early stages of writing an essay or a speech. Students need to be able to conjure up a wide range of ideas that they can choose from when doing creative work.

The second skill allows students to produce impressive metaphors and analogies that expand

thinking.

The third skill is important for anyone who wants to bring something new into the world. Students must learn how to think independently, and not simply parrot what others have said.

The fourth skill is the most practical. Students need to be able to take their ideas and develop them into a finished product that their peers would recognize as complete.

My wishI am sorry I have write it wrong, I need language. Because when I see other people talking with foreigners but I don’t understand Chinese, Japanese, and English etc. I want to speak many language if I can, I only can speak Japanese and English.Don’t tell everybody pleaseThank you

FreedomI have been to hear everybody say ‘don’t have time’ but I understand it mean ‘they don’t do that’The only one valuable thing that all human have is ‘time’. Do you know you are losing it bit by bit. Do you think you think you spend time by appreciation every second.Well, well, wellDon’t make an excuse ‘don’t have the time

The Payoff

No problem is ever solved

from the same consciousness that created it.

Albert Einstein