Using Mind Maps to
Manage Class Notes,
Transform Studying into Learning,
and Become a Self-Directed Learner
Toni Krasnic, author of Concise Learning
30th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience
February 6, 2011
Atlanta, GA
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Two
Implications
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for
f Students:
Students
St d t :
1. Are you doing the right things?
2. Are y
you doing
g them right?
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“The principle goal of
education is to create men
who are capable of doing
new things,
g , not simply
p y of
repeating what other
generations have done men who are creative,
creative
inventive and discoverers.”
—Jean Piaget
With Concise Learning Method (CLM),
MEANINGFUL LEARNING is achieved
via a fivefive-phase process (5Ps:
preview participate,
preview,
participate process,
process
practice, and produce) that involves
meaningfully
i f ll organizing
i i and
d
connecting key concepts in a visual
map, critically thinking, and asking
key
yq
questions
Concise Learning Method (CLM)
“The
difficulty lies
lies, not in
the new ideas, but in
escaping from the old ones,
which ramify, for those
brought up as most of us
have been, into every
corner of our minds.”
−John Maynard Keynes
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