digital mind mapping - the lay of the digital land
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Digital Mind MappingThe Lay of the Digital Land
Pauric HolleranAssistive Technology Officer, UCD
@HPauric
“Creative thinking involves exploring non-obvious and non-traditional ideas to find unexpected good ones. To find them you have to sort through many potential embarrassing, silly, goofy, or outrageous ideas. The catch is you can’t separate the good ones from the goofy ones until you’ve brought them out in the open and talked them through.”
“Using applications to mind map instead of pencils and paper lets me do this without friction and creates projects that are easy to organize, even if I wait until the end to bother.”
“I like digital mind maps because they let me think non-linearly and because they allow ideas to “grow” in an organic fashion.”
Mind Maps as a General Problem Solving Device
Set Problem
Solve for: Noisy Neighbour
Academic Writing
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“Writing calls on the two opposing skills of creativity and critical thinking.”
Collect Ideascc: rexhammock - https://www.flickr.com/photos/41894170584@N01
Get a "Big Picture" View of concepts and ideas
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Explore relationships between ideas
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Collaborative Brainstorming
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Two tools to represent the same scene...
Different tools emphasize different attributes
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● clarify details● present a linear
narrative
● think non-linearly● explore relationships
between ideas
Explore the Landscape