After we have told you the secret we are also going to tell you how you can use this knowledge to help your children and give them one of the best chances you can for their education and learning. To explain, the first thing we are going to give you is the results of some brilliant research.

Many researchers have reached a very clear and stark conclusion when it comes to education and learning. Their brilliant insight is that experience of facts, information, or ideas prior to formal learning makes learning quicker and easier and formal education performance much better.

Bower and Mann found that learning and recollection improved when learning material was put into a pattern and given to learners prior to their formal learning of that material.

Well and Murphy in the Encyclopedia of Educational Research say that prior experience of subject matter is a very powerful factor in improving learners subsequent learning and education.

The basic point is this; to help your children to improve  results at school as you can get them to learn the subject matter outside of school before they do the subject in school.

But isn’t this difficult, doesn’t this take masses of time?

The answer to both of these questions is no, it can take just a little time when you use the right technique to help your children!

The technique to use to help your children learn quickly and easily, and which gives them the prior experience argued for by the researchers, and that will help them get ahead is Memory Mapping.

As seen above, researchers advocate a pattern being used to help prior learning and Memory Mapping provides just such a pattern.

Memory Mapping is a really clear way to take ideas and facts off a page and put them in an easy to remember form.

Your children will see how ideas all connect together in the pattern and they will remember them.

By taking facts and ideas from books and putting them into a Memory Map your children will learn and remember. As an example see below a completed Memory Map that we use to explain about Memory Mapping. This Map has printed words and images which you can also do for your maps or if you wish you or your children can create your memory maps by hand:

You and your children can use Memory Mapping for prior learning just about anything that will be part of their future school work.

The great thing about Memory Maps is that there does not need to be a great deal of writing which takes up lots of time. The Memory Map uses only a few words, images, color, and location to help your children remember.

The Memory Map then helps your children speak about a subject. If they can speak about it, then they know it, and they will have gained the early experience of the subjects they will be learning later in school. This will give them that vital head start making their formal education activities so much easier for them.

He concludes that if you don’t use your brain then its powers could diminish, so to help avoid this you need to keep your brain active.

One interesting observation he made was that retired farm workers were more than twice as likely as retired farm managers to become mentally impaired as they got older. The workers were considered to have had less intellectually challenging jobs than the managers and that this was the cause of the difference.

And what is the moral of the story?  Well, the way to keep mentally alert is to do things that challenge you intellectually, to keep your brain active.  How?

There are many things you could do and one of them is to use Memory Maps for learning and remembering the things that you are interested in, or perhaps you have to learn as part of a course or for work.

Memory Maps use a combination of location, words, images, and colour, even sound and moving visuals to help you learn, memorise and keep you intellectually challenged and your brain stimulated. Below is an example of a completed Memory Map the subject of which is how to do memory maps:   

So our advice is to keep your brain active all your life and try Memory Mapping, it’s easy to use for learning, remembering and helping you to speak about a subject!

See the articles on this Blog and our free reports to find out more about Memory Mapping and the detail of how it all works. 

The left side of the brain is thought to be the logical half processing information sequentially in parts. The right side of the brain is said to be the creative side processing in ‘wholes’.

This understanding has led to an industry of commentators who have categorised people as predominantly ‘left brained’ or ‘right brained’, often saying that one is better than the other, if you like that one learning resource is better than the other. Is this the correct view and how does the answer matter to you personally and as a parent?

Well, other researchers now say that this is too limited a way of thinking about the brain and that human capability and learning does not fall neatly into left brain and right brain activity.  For example J Levy says that the two halves are involved in almost everything that people do.

To quote Eric Jenson;

“Each side of the brain relies on the other and each is part of a larger “whole” …… Both parts and wholes are important to learning ….. those who are promoting ‘right brain thinking’ might do more good by promoting ‘whole brain thinking’.

So how can you apply whole brain thinking to help you and your children with life and with learning?

A brilliant and practical method of applying whole brain thinking is to use Memory Mapping. 

The Learning Well encourages the use of Memory Mapping as it provides one of the very best whole brain learning experiences that makes use of all the learning resource that is the brain.

A Memory Map combines logic, sequence, and creativity to enable accelerated learning that can be very easily remembered.

Using this technique can make a huge difference to you personally and also to your children greatly enhancing their abilities and learning.

We thoroughly recommend the use of Memory Mapping to you and you are invited to learn about it from the resources available to you on this Blog including our free reports. Mapping will make a huge difference to your life and that of your children enhancing their learning and yours.