Creativity Using Mind Maps

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About Course

Mind Mapping is a versatile development tool that can be adapted to many situations which can help you connect skills, ideas, relationships and encourage creativity.

  • The Mind Mapping process is to help learners strengthen and develop their skills, develop self-awareness, connect ideas, grow creativity and areas for improvement.
  • Identify areas in which to further develop, see patterns and gaps and branch out with their training needs, develop improvements, explore new concepts, review and refine self-awareness.
  • Learners are provided with an overview of the task and the content of the activity which can be broken down into topic areas, for Meta-Skills such as Self-management, Innovation and Social Intelligence, or adapted to suit a specific topic such as Multicultural Development.

 

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What Will You Learn?

  • After completing this topic you will have increased your knowledge around realising creativity through the use of Mind Maps

Course Content

Introduction and Developing a Mind Map
The objective and aim of the Mind Mapping process is to help learners strengthen and develop their skills, develop self-awareness, connect ideas, grow creativity and areas for improvement, to identify areas in which to further develop, see patterns and gaps and branch out with their training needs, develop improvements, explore new concepts, review and refine. Mind maps can be used to problem solve, plan, and organize self-development.

Presentation and Strategy
During this session, you are encouraged to develop your own Mind Maps, this should be a simple subject, best related to something they are aware of, a general topic Health and Physical Education, Climate and the Environment, Culture, Social Sciences or General Education. Use examples in following slides.

Challenges and Pitfalls
Identification of common issues, such as overcrowding, lack of creativity, or difficulty prioritising information.

Quality and Assessment
There are many ways that learners work can be assessed and evaluated for quality and effectiveness. This section allows the learner how to check their materials for quality and correctness.

Cultural Mind Map Training
Mind Maps can be a great tool for cultural training, here we can develop some ideas that you can incorporate into your training sessions.

Developing a Basic Mind Map
Basic Mind Maps can be developed simply on a blank sheet of paper, a white board or on a computer.

Assessing competence in Mind Mapping
Here we have a number of methods and criteria of assessing your skills in developing Mind Maps.

Key Points
Points to help you along the route of developing a good Mind Map.

Topic Assessment
This is a group of Multichoice assessment questions which you can use to score your level of achievement. The assessment can be checked after each question and a total score provided on completion.

Slides
Here you can download a copy of the course slides

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