- Learning with KnowledgeMaps: Effective visual presentation of material
- Working technique: 90 percent of the words in text recorded verbatim are unnecessary for remembering the contents of that text; multilayered connections and complex structures can quickly and simply be developed and recorded with the help of simple tree structures.
- Structuring of knowledge: Collecting key words and arranging them so that a reasonable structure arises. The main topic is clearly exposed by its central position. Relations between the key words can be recognized by the connecting lines and their labels. All unnecessary information is filtered out. Anything that can be expressed shorter or more simply is changed.
- Analyzing and remembering: Structuring, detecting correlations, avoiding reading a text twice, extracting the essence of a text; writing it down makes it easier to remember its contents.
- Processing of knowledge: Absorbing and sorting of information, developing problem solving methods, thinking creatively.
- Presentation of knowledge: Transforming important information into a vivid picture and linking this picture in an imaginative way to other pictures.
- Creative association: Establishing a relationship between two pictures with the help of a visual scenario. The more absurd and crazier such a relationship may be, the better it can be remembered. The human brain is stimulated by new information: stop changing and you stop, period.
- Relation between key words and memory: Memory is based on associations; a single key word or key phrase recalls complex series of experience and sensation.
- Mind Map: A mind map shows the relations between ideas and the importance of each individual idea. Organization of ideas, forming a hierarchy of ideas.
- Effective learning: By repetition of material.
