Humans like to make sense of complex information. We categorize and classify everything from our individual music on iTunes to governments and countries throughout the world. It is our way of visualizing knowledge — how we represent what we know.
If you want to find unexpected solutions to complex problems, then you had better consider adding visual thinking to your problem solving repertoire. Visual thinking, the use and exploration of multi-dimensional images as tools for communication, understanding and creative problem
When I think about educational practices we should scale in 2015, I think about visual thinking and student learning. It is widely accepted that people have a better memory for images than words. Think about an icon or symbol and
Visual thinking can sometimes be better than words when brainstorming, asking questions and connecting ideas previously thought to be unconnectable. And mind mapping makes visual thinking come alive. The old saying, “a photo is worth a thousand words” is certainly
