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3 Ways to Use Mind Map in Education

Mind maps are used as a popular tool in more and more fields nowadays. For teachers and students, mind maps play an important role in education. 

Nowadays there are many online mind mapping tools that can help you in various tasks. But you must book a free demo before signing up with any kind of mind mapping tool. How can mind maps be applied to teaching? How can students improve learning efficiency and effect by using mind maps? Read these 3 ways to use mind maps in education.

Use Mind Maps to Learn Vocabulary

Vocabulary is the source of knowledge. However, it's not always easy to remember words of your mother tongue, not to mention learning the vocabulary of a second language. With the help of a mind map, you can create maps of word groups in a different theme and add new words to corresponding groups at any time. The radiant structure of a mind map suits the way the human brain works in diverging an idea.

Use Mind Map to Learn Grammar

Grammar is the groundwork for effective language learning. However, we always hear people complaining about grammar learning as a pain. The grammar rules such as sentence structures, tenses, and part of speech make our headaches. Usually, we read grammar books and write down grammar notes to learn grammar, but it's difficult to have a clear overall understanding in mind and hard to avoid confusion. Mind maps provide a much more effective approach for sorting out grammar rules. It reflects relationships and shows connections of different grammar points visually. 

Use Mind Map to Do Class Presentation

In class, teachers like using presentations to assist their lectures, and students sometimes do presentation activities to practice their learning and communication skills. Powerpoint and Keynote are the two most well-known class presentation tools. However, one of the challenges with the slideshow is that it isn't easily understood how the entire picture is. What you see are individual slides one by one, and you couldn't figure out their relationships in between.

That's why lots of people turn to mind maps for class presentations. The mind map shows everything on a single page. It structures information in a logical way and shows the web of relationships clearly. What's more, mind maps are more flexible for presentation. If you only want to show the content overview to your audiance, you can collapse all the details.