From 1 – 31 March 2013 Lexicon Reading Center invites your active participation in Linking Mind Maps to Dyslexia and Dysgraphia, a social program to spread the awareness of Mind Maps during March 2013.
Mind Maps, as you all know, are a visual representation of data. The concept of mind mapping is used by an estimated 250 million people across the globe. Mind Maps are useful in solving complex problems, creating structures and most importantly to aid memory.
Mind Maps can be used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing.
Mind maps have many applications at home, at work, with children, for education, and covers note-taking, brainstorming, summarizing, as a mnemonic technique, or to understand and sort out complex ideas. Mind maps are also promoted as a way to collaborate in color pen creativity sessions.
While Mind Maps help people of all ages, in all stations and walks of life, our focus is on how it helps students and teachers. Especially for students with learning difficulties. Plus teachers who are involved with, and of course the parents of, children having learning difficulties.
Mind Maps are an effective tool in education. And can be used with great effectiveness for the following activities:
- solve problems effectively
- outline and design a framework
- represent and capture structures and relationships
- collaborate with others
- marry words and visuals
- creatively express ideas
- condense material into a concise and memorable format
- build teams and in synergistic creation activities that enhance work morale
As part of this Linking Mind Maps to Dyslexia and Dysgraphia program, Lexicon Reading Center is undertaking a series of online and offline activities for parents and educators, during March 2013.
- The first is a Free Ebook Download for students, teachers and parents. This ebook introduces Mind Maps and outlines some of the best resources available for students, educators and parents. Download it here
- The second, in association with ThinkBuzan, Lexicon Reading Center, has also organized a Tony Buzan seminar on Mind Mapping for Differently Enabled Children. This seminar is ideal for parents and educators to learn first-hand, from the father of Mind Mapping himself. Scheduled for March 17, 2013, for the first time in UAE, this seminar will acquaint parents and teachers of children with learning difficulties, the techniques of learning and teaching more effectively using Mind Maps. Download the Seminar Brochure.
- A special blog section on videos for Educators engaged in teaching differently enabled children. Read the blog here.
- Daily Blog Articles on Mind Maps focussing on using Mind Maps to teach differently enabled children. Read the articles here.
An appeal to all who care about education
Lexicon Reading Center appeals to active bloggers, media folks, parents, educators and Twitter users in the UAE, to help spread the awareness of Mind Maps for education in general and of course, its use and effectiveness in teaching children affected with learning difficulties.
As a parent, educator, media person, or influencer of people, you can show that you care for the education of differently enabled children in the following ways.
- Carry the badge of Linking Mind Maps to Dyslexia and Dysgraphia on your website
- Attend the Tony Buzan seminar on Mind Mapping for Differently Enabled Children on March 17, 2013
- Write an article about Mind Maps and how it helps in educating children, at any time during March 2013 in the UAE
- Write, or tweet about Linking Mind Maps to Dyslexia and Dysgraphia 2013, or use our blog to freely quote articles on this subject, during all of March 2013
- Download the free ebook and understand how Mind Mapping helps students and educators
- Hold your own Free Workshops on Mind Mapping for Children in your area or locality
- Infect your colleagues, friends to learn about Mind Mapping and teach children on how to use it
- Send us any Mind Maps that you have made and we’ll be happy to carry this on our web site during March 2013. Send your creations to us at mindmaps@lexiconreadingcenter.org
If you have more ideas on how we can spread the awareness of Mind Maps to parents, educators and children in the UAE, we’d like to hear from you. Write to us at info@lexiconreadingcenter.org.
About Lexicon Reading Center
Lexicon Reading Center [LRC] provides help for children who learn differently so that they reach their true potential.
Lexicon Reading Center provides proper guidance to children, parents, and teachers. LRC has been providing help for children with learning difficulties by organizing regular workshops for over 5 years now. For more information on LRC, visit: https://www.lexiconreadingcenter.org
Online Resources for Linking Mind Maps to Dyslexia and Dysgraphia
