Day 3-Learning Styles

The topic we did today was mind maps. The lecture started explaining "what is a mind-map?". Mind map holds information in a format that mind finds easy to remember and quick to review. It also a good tool that can use to summarizing. 

There are three types of learning styles. They are visual, auditory and kinesthetic. 

Visual

Visual people are good at art. They learn things by drawing or looking at pictures. For these type of people mind map is a good tool that can use when they are learning.

Auditory

Auditory people are good listeners. They learn things by listening. As an example when an auditory person attend to a lecture he/she closes eyes and listen to the lecture and some auditory people study by reading loud. This type of people are less reliance in visualizing. 

Kinesthetic

Kinesthetic people practically wants to do things and understand.

Then he explained about the usages of mind maps. Mind maps used to generate, visualize, structure, classify ideas, an aid of study, organization information, solving problems and making decisions. 

Figure 1: Mind Map

After that lecturer asked to draw a mind map of "Mind Map" using the theoretical parts he taught about mind maps.

                     
After that lecturer further explain about mind maps.

Mind map is a diagrams used to represent,

• Words
• Ideas
• Task

Finally he explained several structures of mind maps and end of the lecture he gave a task, that was to draw a mind map for "Systems". Systems that we learnt in our modules.

At the end of the lecture I got a clear idea about mind maps.