ThinQ Nasir

Mind Mapping and Creativity in Young Minds About the writer: Md. Nasir Khan is a Tony Buzan certified Mind Map Trainer who is also working as an Academic Director in Manipur Creative School. He is also an expert in Memory Skills and Creative Teaching & Learning Methodologies. He is a patron member of Global Mental Literacy and a member of World Brain Academy. Let us think of our Kindergarten days where our teacher taught ‘A’ stands for apple. This limits our thinking capabilities to just apple and can’t think beyond. In the case of Mind Mapping we encourages children to think of all the associative words that begins with ‘A’ and we get so many of them. The child did wonders in the classroom. Ant, Ape, Axe, Arm, Ark, Acid, Apple, Add…etc. are all the associative words that begin with the letter ‘A’. With pictures and with imaginations the children are encouraged to build up an independent, limitless thinking where they learn to learn the picturisation of their thoug...