Her journal reminded me of the comment of Mr Walt Disney's process of creating his master piece "Fantasia". He explained, how he can not image something beautiful when he hears beautiful piece of music.
Mr W Wenger explains in his literature "The Einstein factor" that, Mr Disney had a great sense of Synesthesia, which is an ability to translate or describe five human basic sense to other senses. Example, sense of smell to sense of vision, sense of sound to sense of taste, etc....He was very good in translating his sense of hearing to vision.
I also think visual thinking does help as Ms Nottingham suggests.
Mr Disney used his Visual Map, which is pretty similar to mind map, which is very familiar to all the BAPP students as we all have learned in module one. Mr Disney used the method to create so many beautiful, wonderful pieces.
Above is Mr Disney's visual map.
So, how does this visual thinking, visual mapping, mind mapping, or concept drawing help us? How does it relate to BAPP professional inquiry work? What is the benefits of it?
The answer is clear. Mr W Wenger explains in his literature that, these methods helps create links between visual and verbal modes of thinking.
Below is his theory explained by psychology wiki
Wenger describes the process as a combination of Albert Einstein's method of day dreaming and the Socratic method of repeated questioning. He believes that it causes the subject to become more aware of his mental imagery and creates links between visual and verbal thinking.
Wenger believes that the endless stream of visual images, that everyone experiences to some degree, contain important thoughts and insights. Certainly many discoveries have come through day dreaming, most notably Einstein's discovery of the theory of relativity.[How to reference and link to summary or text]
Describing the images aloud, brings them to conscious attention and, according to Wenger, leads to more and clearer imagery. Wenger describes this as a feedback mechanism where the act of observing causes more imagery to be produced.
He also speculates that image streaming links visual and verbal modes of thinking and that this causes intelligence to increase.
So, these methods helps us to translate our senses to verbal; drawing to essay writing! However, drawing is only used to help transrate to verbal results for us BAPP students for essay or journal,etc.... Drawings are visual evidence but do not get in to too much of details and forget why we are using these methods, they only exist as tools to develop our inquiry. Let's use them well, and try not to be used by them;P
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