Introduction: Mind mapping, as a way of thinking presentation, takes visual icons as the carrier to show people's thinking characteristics. In teaching, mind map plays the role of thinking support, which changes thinking from abstraction to image, stimulates students' divergent thinking and inspires students to explore the construction of learning. This study adopts the methods of classroom observation and interview to observe the application of mind mapping in teaching activities, and then interviews teachers to explore how to better use mind mapping in teaching and promote students' thinking development. This paper aims to explore how to apply mind mapping in teaching, provide practical guidance for teaching activities and promote students' thinking development.
First, an overview of mind mapping.
"Mind mapping, also called mind mapping, is an effective graphic thinking tool to express divergent thinking. It is simple but effective, and it is a revolutionary thinking tool. Mind mapping uses the skills of paying equal attention to graphics and texts, showing the relationship between topics at all levels with hierarchical diagrams of mutual subordination and correlation, and establishing memory links between topic keywords, images and colors. Mind mapping makes full use of the functions of the left and right brain and the laws of memory, reading and thinking to help people develop in a balanced way between science and art, logic and imagination, thus opening up the infinite potential of the human brain. Therefore, mind mapping has a powerful function of human thinking. "
Simply put, a mind map is a picture, a picture that vividly describes the whole and parts of your knowledge and the relationship between them.
There are many complicated theories about psychological schematic diagram. However, it is essentially just some pictures, some pictures with words and embedded words. This is the structure diagram of what you have learned.
Second, the significance of mind mapping
1. Status Analysis
External environment: We live in a world full of information. In the modern information society, paying attention to and using information is an indispensable factor to solve problems. The rapid development of information technology has brought profound influence to social development. "Promoting the modernization of education by informationization and realizing the leap-forward development of basic education" has become a basic strategy for the reform and development of basic education in China.
Internal environment: Under the teacher's teaching method, students play a passive role for a long time, facing too many standard answers and norms, which makes students' innovative thinking not play well.
Step 2: Solution
Faced with the above environmental conditions, the most important task of the school is to teach students how to learn and how to think while imparting knowledge.
Therefore, how to learn how to study, how to think, how to improve information literacy and learning ability in the information environment in the face of heavy courses and a lot of information, and make learning more efficient and innovative are important topics that schools, teachers and students should think about now.
Third, why is mind mapping so effective?
One of the main reasons for the success of mind mapping is that it conforms to the biological structure of human brain and the organizational structure model of brain.
Thesis outline is a typical static organization, but it is not as vivid and natural as mind map. A good mind map looks like a neuron, radiating many axons and dendrites from the center, and some branch antennae.
Another reason for the success of mind mapping is that a large number of people's intelligence is used in the process of making, reviewing and modifying mind mapping.
Drawing mind maps requires four or five abilities, while traditional note-taking only requires one or two. The development of students' brain thinking is not perfect, and their thinking problems are not comprehensive. Mind mapping is an effective tool to help children improve their thinking innovation ability in an all-round way. Primary school is the peak of children's brain development. If children's thinking ability is effectively exercised and developed at this stage, it is very beneficial for children's future development to cultivate their independent thinking and learning ability and advocate their personality development.
Fourth, the scope of application of mind mapping
In real learning, mind mapping is often used in the following situations:
1. Thinking: Analyze complex system problems, clarify the relationship between things, and find out the best solution to the problem.
2. Learning: used to learn new knowledge quickly, strengthen the connection between old and new knowledge, and master the characteristics of new knowledge.
3. Writing: quickly form the article structure, outline and various levels around the writing theme, and fill in relevant arguments, argumentation materials, cases and extended suggestions.
4. Notes: Be able to grasp the relationship between keywords, expand and supplement new knowledge at any time in a specific subject system, and form extensible dynamic notes.
5. Planning: planning a certain theme activity, combining elements according to the purpose, objectives, tasks, required personnel and resources of the activity, setting the activity schedule according to the activity flow, and forming a systematic activity plan.
In addition, mind mapping has many uses. For example: keeping a diary, communicating, brainstorming, creativity and so on.
Five or eight mind maps
1. chart, define one thing.
The circle chart definition method is mainly used to expand the theme, relate or describe the details. It has two circles, the small circle inside is the theme, and the big circle outside is filled with details or features related to the theme.
2. Bubble diagram, describing the nature and characteristics of things.
The pie chart emphasizes the concrete expansion of a concept, while the bubble chart focuses more on the feature description of a concept.
3. Double bubble diagram, comparison and contrast
There is also an "upgraded version" of bubble diagram, called double bubble diagram. This is also an analysis "artifact". The beauty of it is that it can help children compare and contrast two things and find their differences and commonalities.
4. Tree diagram, classification
Tree diagram method, a diagram mainly used for grouping or classification. Theme, first-class category, second-class category, and so on. You can use this picture to help children sort out and summarize some knowledge.
5. Flowchart, sequence
Flowchart method analyzes the development and internal logic of things from the perspective of sequence.
6. Multiple flowcharts, causality
Also known as causality diagram, it is used to help children analyze the causes and consequences of an event. There are events in the middle, various causes of events on the left, and various results caused by events on the right.
7. Support drawing, part and whole
We usually use this diagram to analyze the relationship between the whole and the parts.
8. Analog Bridge Diagram
This is a diagram mainly used for analogy and analogy. Write down a group of related things above and below the bridge-shaped horizontal line, and then list more things with similar correlation according to this correlation.
Sixth, the application of mind mapping.
Teacher's application
1. Grasp the teaching content
In teaching, we can use the way of mind mapping. For teachers, teaching has always been the most important. How to grasp the course progress, find out the key and difficult points of teaching, improve classroom efficiency and strengthen students' learning effect are all problems to be considered in teaching. Through the drawing of mind map, we can grasp the progress of the course and the key and difficult points of each class as a whole, and then display the teaching content and analyze the structure of complex knowledge through mind map, thus strengthening the classroom learning effect. Through a picture, we can grasp the content of the whole chapter well, so as to build a complete knowledge system.
2. Research on scientific research projects
Mind mapping can be used in teaching research. As a good way and platform to improve teaching and communicate with peers, scientific research is often ignored. Some teachers may have some teaching experience, but they don't know how to write a summary. In fact, mind mapping can not only help us to clear our minds and sum up our education and teaching experience, but also analyze various elements of scientific research objects by using mind mapping to make scientific research more comprehensive and detailed.
3. Plan and organize activities
Other affairs can also be done in the form of mind mapping. In addition to teaching and scientific research, teachers often play different roles in schools and participate in various activities and tasks of schools. How to do these things well, mind map can help teachers plan or organize these activities, so that the overall situation and details are planned. By using mind maps, many creative ideas can be generated, and plans and activities can be better organized.
Second, the application of students
1. Mind mapping can be applied to all fields of students' study and life.
For example:
① Mind mapping can be used when taking class notes. In classroom learning, students spend a lot of time taking notes, which is not only a waste of time, but also not easy to remember. Taking notes with mind map can not only make time to participate in teaching activities, but also make classroom learning more efficient because of the wired network structure.
② Mind mapping can be used for preview and review. Learning can't rely on rote memorization, but more on the flexible mastery of knowledge, so it is very important to master knowledge points. The use of mind map makes this review simple and interesting. Drawing the mind map of the same topic many times can not only strengthen memory, but also stimulate creative thinking.
In addition, it can also be applied to writing, study planning, arranging daily activities, analyzing complex problems and so on.
2. Guide children to use mind maps.
With lively and interesting teaching, take the teaching practice of our class as an example. At first, when students were asked to make mind maps, they didn't know where to start. I took out a class to systematically explain the mind map to the students, about the types and uses of mind maps. I learned some tips and benefits of making mind maps. Through the demonstration of some examples of mind mapping and the explanation combined with practice, students have basically mastered the drawing skills of mind mapping.
In class, students choose their favorite type of mind map through group discussion and group cooperation, and participate in the production of their own according to the corresponding subject knowledge.
After students' mind maps are drawn, encourage children to share and explain their mind maps on the platform, and teachers and classmates will comment and analyze them together to learn from each other's strengths. At the same time, new requirements are put forward to encourage students to develop at a deeper and more thematic level; Gradually train students to draw a complete and personalized mind map.
I saw a confident smile on the children's faces when they stepped onto the platform with confidence and shared their learning achievements. This way has greatly stimulated children's interest and enthusiasm in learning. Children like this way very much and often proudly show their works to their classmates.
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Mind mapping is of great help and significance to children's physical and mental development. It broadens students' horizons, improves traditional modes and methods, enriches students' imagination, and gives teachers more help and challenges, thus improving teaching level and ability. In the process of teacher-student cooperation and mutual running-in, students gain more, and their thinking and learning ability are also improved step by step. In the teaching process of various subjects, the proper introduction of mind map is conducive to students' better progress and better study.