The Application of Mind Mapping in History Teaching

Mind mapping is a graphic or graphic thinking tool to effectively express divergent thinking. Mind map: What's the use of history? How to realize the learning method of mind map This article is my mind map: historical materials, for reference only.

Mind mapping: history

There are a lot of memory contents in the study of history class. Using mind map can make memory easier. History is an interesting subject, which can teach us to learn from it. But it is not easy to learn such useful and interesting things as a course.

The difficulty of my history textbook has obviously increased this semester, mainly focusing on the historical events from the founding of Nanjing National Government to the reform and opening up. Because the content is detailed and the cause and effect of historical events are complicated, it is easy to be confused and make some jokes that make people laugh. The more things you learn, the more confused your mind will be, and the fidgety mood will immediately wash away your interest in history, but you will take the history exam in a few days. What should I do?

At this moment, I thought of a way to remember? Draw a mind map. Maybe you are unfamiliar with the new term mind map. Mind mapping is a simple and very effective tool for thinking and taking notes. Painting? The way to remember, think and even create. So, I try to remember historical events in this way. The night before the exam, I spent a whole hour drawing the contents of the first and third lessons in the form of mind maps. Drawing this thing is not as easy as I thought! If you want to draw a mind map, you must have a clear impression of the object you want to remember, otherwise you can't draw it at all. However, the historical events in my mind are in chaos, so it takes some time to sort out and classify what I have learned in the process of drawing and understand the whole process of the events. Therefore, this requires everyone who draws mind maps to think clearly first. Although it takes a lot of time to draw mind maps, the process of drawing is a pleasure. I use colored pens and curves on paper at will? Gallop? Only one picture shows the contents of several pages in the book, and each picture is so beautiful, unique and dynamic. But because of time, I didn't finish every class that day, and I didn't watch it again after painting. As a result, the next day, I was surprised to find that although I didn't remember what I drew yesterday, what I didn't draw was obviously blurred. At this point, I realized the magic of mind mapping. Since then, I have memorized everything I have learned by drawing, and the effect is also remarkable.

Below, I will tell you how to draw a mind map (as shown, it is a picture about the September 18th Incident):

(1) Find a piece of paper big enough and pens with as many colors as possible, and remember never to draw with only blue or black strokes. You are faced with black characters every day, so if you still draw with black strokes, it will not only refresh your brain, but also make you more irritable.

(2) Draw (or write) the core part you want to remember in the center of the paper, as shown in the figure? September 18? . Then, divide many curves from the center (remember: be sure to use curves, because the brain likes curves), and then write down what you want to remember online.

(3) If you look at the picture carefully, you will think of the following things: branches of trees, human nerves, or the outline of lightning? Yes, mind mapping is to classify memory contents like branches of a big tree, and then classify them until every key point is shown on the map, just like dividing an article into sections, then dividing each paragraph into sentences, and then analyzing the subject-predicate-object structure of each sentence.

(4) Draw a picture next to a certain content to show its content (people with deep painting skills can show their skills), in short? Write? With what? Painting? Do both to make your painting both beautiful and practical.

Mind mapping does have a magical effect, but it doesn't mean you don't have to look at what you draw. According to the memory curve of the famous German psychologist Ebbinghaus, the law of human memory is that the shorter the time interval between memory and memory, the faster the speed of forgetting. Therefore, after painting a picture, you should review it in a short time until it is deeply engraved in your mind, otherwise, even if you paint it beautifully, you will not be able to avoid the bad luck of forgetting.

Mind mapping can be used not only in the study of history, but also in other subjects, and the method is the same. Mind mapping allows you to remember what others can remember in two or even three hours in one hour, and you can also appreciate your own drawings in the process of memory. Needless to say, its efficiency of getting twice the result with half the effort, the pleasure of memory and the sense of pride that arises spontaneously are all lacking in reading class notes and dead endorsement. Drawing mind maps is really a good memory strategy for killing two birds with one stone. You might as well try! The real fun and benefits of mind mapping must be realized by your own hands and brain.

The Application of Mind Mapping in History Teaching

First, understand mind mapping.

Mind mapping was founded by British scholar Tony in the early 1960s. Based on the research of brain physiology, TonyBuzan analyzed people's note-taking habits and training by analogy with the radioactive properties of natural things. People with learning disabilities? In practice, the research results of radioactive thinking and its graphic expression have gradually formed. 197 1, these achievements have been compiled into a book, which is widely used in education, learning, business decision-making and other fields. Nowadays, Britain has made mind mapping a compulsory course for primary and secondary schools, and educational institutions in Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Germany, the United States and other countries have also begun to study and explore this topic.

Second, the working principle of mind mapping

According to scientific research, the human brain is divided into left brain and right brain, and the left brain has its own functions: the left brain is responsible for language, that is, using language to process information and transform information seen, heard, touched, smelled and tasted into idioms to convey. The left brain mainly controls knowledge, judgment, thinking and so on, which is closely related to self-consciousness. The right brain processes the received information with images, which can be processed immediately and can process a large amount of information together. The left brain is a rational thinking, and the thinking mode of the right brain is subconscious. Psychologists call this situation potential.

Traditional teaching often only requires students to think rationally in thinking, notes and even homework. In fact, we just think with the left brain and ignore the development of the right brain with strong subconscious function.

Although the logical framework has a clear structure and distinct levels, it also has some shortcomings: First, the focus is not prominent. After realizing the progressive and comprehensive knowledge system, the frame structure gives us the feeling that the whole frame is very important, so we must remember everything so as not to miss anything, but in fact we don't need to remember so much. Secondly, it is not easy to remember. As mentioned above, people's memory depends on the cooperation of the left and right brains to operate efficiently, while students can only use the left brain when memorizing the frame structure. Abstract language description and incomprehensible historical facts make it more difficult for students to understand and remember. Third, increase the burden of students' classes. In the classroom with heavy classroom burden, students are required to write down the syllabus of all aspects of the next class. If the content is distributed in different paragraphs of different chapters, although the content is not much, it invisibly increases the burden on students and reduces the efficiency of learning. Third, simple notes will reduce students' interest in learning. Traditional linear notes are simple and straightforward, and repeating one thing mechanically every day will not only make students lose interest in them, but even make them feel bored with history classes.

The application of mind mapping can overcome these shortcomings. The characteristics of mind map are: using various colors; Use off-center natural structures; Use lines, symbols, words and images, and follow a set of simple, basic, natural and acceptable rules. Using mind map, a long list of boring information can be turned into colorful, easy to remember and highly organized pictures.

Similarly, take historical notes as an example: taking historical notes with mind maps can clearly highlight the theme of historical events and express the branches of the text through various branches. Each branch can use representative pictures, symbols, words and even homemade cartoon pictures to deepen the memory and understanding of key knowledge points in the text. Moreover, each keyword is connected with meaningful connecting lines or symbols to show the internal relationship between them. In this way, it constitutes a mind map with clear center, prominent focus, complete record of historical events and reflection of their internal relations. As shown below 1

Third, the application of mind mapping in history teaching

(A) the application of teachers in the teaching process

The application of mind map is not only for students' study, but also for teachers when preparing teaching design, planning educational strategies, classroom teaching process and dealing with other things in their work.

First of all, the traditional teaching design is straightforward written teaching plans and table notes teaching plans, which can clearly reflect the classroom progress, the use of teaching AIDS, and predict the students' reflection and teaching effect. Their disadvantage is that the complicated text description greatly increases the workload of teachers, and they can't intuitively feel the structure of teaching design, understand teachers' design ideas at the first time and express the internal relationship between historical events. The new teaching plan made by mind map can effectively integrate the resources of learning courses, help teachers form the overall concept and panorama in their minds, strengthen the overall grasp of what they have learned, and make specific and reasonable adjustments according to the teaching process and actual situation, so as to make the whole teaching process and process design more systematic, scientific and effective.

The following picture is the course design made by mindmanager:

As can be seen from the pictures, mind map is not only a display of a picture, but also a teaching design made by using mind map, which is quick, convenient, clear-minded, illustrated and intuitive. When a teacher puts a complete mind map in front of students, students can not only quickly grasp the core content of a class, but more importantly, they can clearly see the teacher's thinking process.

Secondly, in the teaching process, effective teaching is carried out by using the designed mind map. Teachers can use teaching software in teaching or draw pictures directly on the blackboard. When mind map is presented to students step by step, it can quickly improve students' grasp of curriculum structure, facilitate students to understand teachers' thinking process, understand the law of historical development, and find out clues and causal relationships between historical events.

Third, teaching and research staff. In the process of teaching research, teachers can use mind map to rationally plan all kinds of resources needed for teaching research, use mind map to scientifically record the experience and lessons in teaching, analyze various elements in the teaching process, reflect the classroom effect in time, and summarize the different performances of each student in time, so that students can comprehensively analyze the teaching process by comparing and jumping pages.

Finally, the teacher's life assistant. At present, 250 million people all over the world are using mind maps as a tool for their life and study. Teachers are busy with their work every day. If there is a mind map as a sharp weapon for recording, they can get twice the result with half the effort in their daily work.

Students' learning

In the process of learning, besides taking notes with mind map mentioned above, mind map plays a more important role.

First, the integration of information. Because mind map is a topic-centered structure, we can use mind map to comprehensively sort out all kinds of historical events, use the powerful graphic thinking ability of the right brain to instantly remember the historical events we have learned, and find the internal connection of historical information according to the various relationships between maps, thus clearing the way.

Secondly, build a knowledge framework. The key for students to use mind maps is to draw them themselves. In the process of drawing, students use their own ability to load fragmentary historical events on the machine like parts, which not only understands the events themselves, but also enables students to master the whole knowledge structure, which is conducive to students to establish a complete knowledge framework system.

Once again, review the past and learn new things. Students can find out the relationship between courses by constructing mind maps, so as to review and discover courses.

Finally, the cultivation of thinking process. Many teaching contents are designed in the middle school curriculum to cultivate students' thinking ability in all aspects, including three-dimensional thinking ability, divergent thinking ability and radioactive thinking ability. Students' application of mind mapping is a process of thinking development.

(3) Matters needing attention in the application of mind mapping

The advantage of mind mapping over the traditional way of thinking is that it is a process of thinking, so we should be good at giving full play to its advantages, avoiding its disadvantages and making it play its greatest role.

First of all, the center is clear. A mind map must not have multiple centers, and any sub-topic should revolve around the theme. For example, the unified Han Dynasty is about the rule of cultural scene in the early Han Dynasty and the unification of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The focus of writing is the unification of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but we should not take this as the center when making mind maps, but should focus on the unified Han Dynasty. After expansion, it is necessary to use bold fonts, put them in a prominent position, add colors, and even use larger pictures to remind readers that the unification of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty is the key point, so as to achieve the purpose of clear center and prominent focus.

Second, use charts. Mind map itself is a map, so we should give full play to its advantages and add distinctive pictures, symbols, links, notes and so on in the process of drawing. To the sub-theme, it can be ready-made or homemade. There is only one principle, which is concise, easy to attract the attention of others or yourself, and easy to remember. Pictures of historical figures, historical events and historical sites are fragmentary when presented alone, but when they appear in a systematic structure, they will be a moving picture.

Think again. Mind mapping, as its name implies, is to think in the process of painting. The process of thinking is precisely the advantage of mind map, the connection of content, the construction of framework and the clear reproduction of the development process of historical events. Whether it is the teacher's preparation for the exam or the student's learning process, the historical reproduction function of mind map is very unique.

Fourth, make mind maps.

Take Figure 2 as an example. First, determine the theme. Qin Wang swept Liuhe? . Draw a picture in the center of the paper and write the theme name? Qin Wang swept Liuhe? Key points of mind map 1. To let readers know the theme of the map for the first time, it is necessary to make the theme eye-catching and match the map of the king of Qin. Then it leads to the sub-theme of this lesson: unifying the six countries; Establishing absolute monarchy in centralization; Measures to consolidate reunification; The territory of the Qin dynasty. Each sub-topic is provided with an order indication, and the relationship between sub-topics is connected and marked with blue lines. Next, fill in the subordinate sub-topic, followed by the superior theme, which is the specific content of the superior theme. Like this map? Unify the six countries? Sub-themes include time, kings, dynasties and capitals.

Through the example of making mind map, we can see that mind map is an effective and worth popularizing learning tool. Its application makes students' learning and teachers' teaching more flexible and open, effectively promotes students to obtain meaningful learning, promotes the integration of old and new knowledge, builds a knowledge network, enables students to grasp knowledge as a whole, and improves students' autonomous learning, thinking and self-reflection abilities. Through the production of mind map, students can be encouraged to actively participate, improve their interest in learning, and greatly change the traditional concept of "mind map". Teacher-centered? This teaching mode deserves to be absorbed and accepted in today's classroom teaching reform.

How to realize the learning method of mind mapping

The Application of Mind Mapping and Its Making Method Do you often lose your memory? Do you find that the more notes you take, the more confused your brain is? Do you often get caught up in trivial matters and find it difficult to be in two places at once? Do you always sigh that there is too little time in a day? Here comes the mind map! Is it okay? Rescue? You!

Mind mapping is an ultimate thinking tool, developed by Britain? Father of memory? Invented by Tony Bozan, it has been widely popularized all over the world and has become a global thinking tool in 2 1 century, and has been used by 250 million people all over the world so far.

Mind mapping focuses on developing people's left and right brains, using lines, symbols, words and images to turn a long list of boring information into colorful, easy-to-remember and organized maps. It's very simple and interesting to draw! It can help people improve their thinking, memory and work efficiency.

Mind mapping teaches you how to draw mind mapping from scratch with some simple examples, and you will soon be inspired by your amazing creativity, your achievements and the practical help that mind mapping brings to your daily life! And you will find that mind mapping can be used in all aspects of your life, but will you ... (expand all) Do you often have memory loss? Do you find that the more notes you take, the more confused your brain is? Do you often get caught up in trivial matters and find it difficult to be in two places at once? Do you always sigh that there is too little time in a day? Here comes the mind map! Is it okay? Rescue? You!

Mind mapping is an ultimate thinking tool, developed by Britain? Father of memory? Invented by Tony Bozan, it has been widely popularized all over the world and has become a global thinking tool in 2 1 century, and has been used by 250 million people all over the world so far.

Mind mapping focuses on developing people's left and right brains, using lines, symbols, words and images to turn a long list of boring information into colorful, easy-to-remember and organized maps. It's very simple and interesting to draw! It can help people improve their thinking, memory and work efficiency.

Mind mapping teaches you how to draw mind mapping from scratch with some simple examples, and you will soon be inspired by your amazing creativity, your achievements and the practical help that mind mapping brings to your daily life! And you will find that mind mapping can emerge as the times require in all aspects of your life and is your right-hand man!

It is one of Tony Bozan's wishes to let everyone accept mind mapping, so he began to write a book. Mind mapping has magically improved Tony Bozan's life, and I believe every reader who reads this book will feel the same way.

Brief introduction of the author

Tony? Bozan, 65438-0942 was born in London, England. He is the chairman of the British Brain Foundation and a world-famous psychologist and educator. He was once praised as Britain's because he helped Prince Charles improve his memory? Father of memory? . He invented it? Mind mapping? 250 million people all over the world are using this simple and easy-to-learn thinking tool.

As an expert in studying human brain potential and learning methods, Bozan has been hired as a consultant by government agencies and educational institutions in Britain, Singapore, Mexico and Australia, as well as many well-known multinational companies such as Disney, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Hewlett-Packard. So far, he has published more than 80 books of various types, including? Mind mapping? Series, etc. His works have been published in more than 30 languages in 100 countries, with a cumulative sales volume of over 6.5438+million copies.

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