DREAM CATCHERSare one of the most fascinating tradition of Native Americans. It was so fascinating that a famous thriller author wrote about it.
DREAM CATCHER is a book by Stephen King, which years later is made into movie. I enjoy both version, I prefer the book, though. In this book, the author visualized the mind is like a library, our memories are like books they are stored in files and folders in orders. What is interesting about this storing management is that we can trace our memory. Our mind is a nature wonder. It can store millions and billions of data. And the capacity is unknown.
I would like to underline the library part. I believe that we still in an worshiping books era. That's why we still need libraries to store them. Have you ever heard about Dewey Decimal System? It is a system used to categorize and find books easier. But we don't use that system in our mind. One thing I can suggest is mind mapping.
Well, mind mapping has everything to do with our mind and drawing a map, of our mind ,of course. Tony Buzan has a wonderful way in teaching mind mapping and its usage, he even wrote mind mapping for kids. Picture on the left is one example of the most interesting ones. So, I suggest that we should apply content based learning. Start with something within the students' comfort zone, i.e. their hobbies, pets, favorite holiday destination, favorite movie or song or reading material. Just check out the link at the bottom of my post.
Mind mapping is only one of many ways in improving vocabulary acquisition. non-native teachers like us can practice with this activity. The point is we have to know more and better even love the material we are teaching to ensure the students. Well, next post, I'm going to share about other thing. Thank you for reading my post. God speed.
I do appreciate your sharing ideas on the concept of mind mapping. You do your extra miles in reading and writing. Good on you.
I learned a lot about connecting pictures and ideas when I was in my undergraduate study. I learned again about mind mapping in a more advanced way when I joined English Proficiency Programme (EPP) in Victoria University of Wellington. I remembered that my classmates and I had to find an article and summarize it in a sort of map. After that, we had to share the map (of our article's summary) to one or two friends. Later we had to write what we understood from our friends' explanation in our writing. I loved the activity.
Mind mapping helps a lot.
Ehmmm...I think I have a great idea....I will you it to create my weekly goals. Thank you for sharing Bu Agnes.
DREAM CATCHER is a book by Stephen King, which years later is made into movie. I enjoy both version, I prefer the book, though. In this book, the author visualized the mind is like a library, our memories are like books they are stored in files and folders in orders. What is interesting about this storing management is that we can trace our memory. Our mind is a nature wonder. It can store millions and billions of data. And the capacity is unknown.
Hi Ibu Endah,
ReplyDeleteI do appreciate your sharing ideas on the concept of mind mapping. You do your extra miles in reading and writing. Good on you.
I learned a lot about connecting pictures and ideas when I was in my undergraduate study. I learned again about mind mapping in a more advanced way when I joined English Proficiency Programme (EPP) in Victoria University of Wellington. I remembered that my classmates and I had to find an article and summarize it in a sort of map. After that, we had to share the map (of our article's summary) to one or two friends. Later we had to write what we understood from our friends' explanation in our writing. I loved the activity.
Mind mapping helps a lot.
Ehmmm...I think I have a great idea....I will you it to create my weekly goals. Thank you for sharing Bu Agnes.
Typo: I will use it to create my weekly goals
ReplyDeleteSure Bu Anik.
DeleteGlad to hear those light, happy tone in your word choices.
Welcome back. Keep fervent in spirit.