How MapWise are you?

Mind mapping is used in very many schools. Government literature frequently encourages schools to use this visual thinking tool.

But from what we’ve seen in schools over the past decade, the practice has limited impact. Why’s that? The teaching of how to construct a map is not systematic and the application is restricted both in imagination and reach.

In our opinion here at Model Learning, schools are still under the spell of Tony Buzan’s New Age approach. Oh, you know what I mean: “everybody’s a genius but they haven’t yet discovered the fact but once they’ve liberated their brains from the shackles of traditional education…” and so on.
If you want to check out the rigour of your school’s approach to mapping, we invite you to take our questionnaire, shown below. Download a high resolution pdf and ask colleagues to respond.