ABSTRACT
In a video that was shot in Brad's room, over scenes of kids closely observing a praying mantis, educational consultant Nancy Commins talks about content that “lends itself to be touched, looked at, to be photographed, to be talked about, in a way that is concrete at first but allows for expanded and more abstract thinking in relationship to something that is more visible”. Mind maps were developed in the late 1960s by Tony Buzan and use a range of skills such as word, image, number, logic, rhythm, color, and spatial awareness. The main idea or center of the mind map remains blank except for the word insects. The mind map stays up with a “Thinking in Progress” label, because kids naturally want to add to it and talk about it, also holding true to belief about the power of peripheral stimuli, or learning from surroundings.
