The Benefit of Mind Mapping
Mind mapping helps students and teachers in the learning
process, because it can stimulate Left Brain and Right Brain
synergistically. We need to know the benefit of using mind mapping
likes an interesting shape, enhance creativity, imagination, etc.
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The benefits of mind mapping are flexible, it means that brain
be able to move fluently to all of direction (Buzan, 2003 : 97). The
students can focus on learning. They also can understand the material
and min mapping attract to learn.
Image 1.1 mind mapping
According to Buzan (2007) mind mapping helps the students in terms
of:
a. Plan
b. Communicate
c. Become more creative
d. Save time
e. Solving the problem
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f. Focus on learning
g. Develop and clarify thoughts
h. Remember be better
i. Learn more quickly and efficiently
3. The Characteristic
Mind mapping is a graphical method of taking notes, their visual
basis help one to distinguish words or ideas, often with colors and
symbols. They generally take a hierarchical or tree branch format, with
ideas branching into their subsection. Mind mopping allow for greater
creativity when recording ideas and information, as well as allowing the
note taker to associate word with visual representations.
According to Buzan (2006: 31) mind mapping can use in many
activities, such as: mind mapping to communicate and do presentation,
to plan family activity, to start new effort and how way to summarize
content of book.