School education is an important stage in human development, and the use of effective tools is extremely important here. Intelligence is a system of images perceived in a complex manner, used in conjunction with other knowledge and events. It is not only sight, hearing or sense organs. There is intuition, subconsciousness, a mass of inexplicable patterns.
However, in order to obtain high-quality knowledge, to learn how to quickly and correctly apply it, it is absolutely not necessary to deeply understand the “structure” of natural intelligence and the principles of building knowledge and the connections between them. In any field of education and fields of knowledge application, it is quite enough to use simple ideas of intellect cards to get an excellent complex result.
The history of the method and its essence
Sometimes it is believed that the ideas of intelligence cards stem from the fields of brainstorming, psychoanalysis and other complex algorithms for the development of intelligence for gifted children, the development of abilities to solve specific or non-standard problems.
Everything is much simpler - this is the usual school method of effective knowledge acquisition, the elements of which are historically used in kindergarten and by parents every day. It's just that at school, the phrase “use of intelligence cards” is based on a specific methodological process. Often discussed, updated and developed throughout the entire educational activity. This is a great tool in school education.
You can recall the British Tony Buzan, Pole Alfred Korzybski or, in general, turn to the ancient philosophers and sages: Porphyry, Aristotle, Raimund Lullius, the essence of this will not change. This is the same intelligence card, examples of which we can see everywhere and at all times.
There is no person who does not record something in order to organize or store important information. There is no such sphere of application in which cards of technological processes, checklists, wall posters and other information products containing systematized information linked in meaning to other information objects are not produced .
School and business: different areas, one map
Intelligence cards on topics of education and business are not too different. In the first case they teach, in the second they work. But what is teaching and working, both in the first and in the second case - relative concepts.
The use of intelligence cards in the educational process can be directed:
- for memory training;
- to develop the ability to analyze and systematize information;
- scheduling;
- graphic compilation of the algorithm of actions;
- presentation of the project.
There are a lot of ideas at school, it is important that the process of compiling maps is fun, practical and does not give students time to be distracted by other things. The accuracy and brilliance of the process of compiling each card is important, the relationships between the cards, the sequence of their location and the logic of decision making are important.
The use of intelligence cards in business focuses on the goals of its optimization, accounting and control of primary documents in accounting or manufacturing, financial control, analysis and decision-making on the actions of competitors and other issues.
Both areas are fundamentally different, but the creation of intelligence cards is absolutely identical. Simple conditions must be observed:
- the card should contain a minimum of information;
- the card must be executed accurately, accurately and colorfully;
- relationships with other cards are clearly marked;
A card is not necessarily a separate piece of paper: all cards can be displayed on one sheet of paper at once with all the graphic links reflecting the meaning.
The main condition for training or working with the use of intelligence cards: you should not use an eraser, that is, never erase anything! If something went wrong, you need to completely redo everything and you should not immediately discard the outdated version, it will almost always give a new idea.
All these simple steps will reduce the content of each card, improve the relationship, simplify the decision.
Classic programming
In the era of large computers, which occupied a quarter of the football field, and as a result of their work, so much heat was released that it was possible to heat a small apartment building, neither the design of the computers themselves, nor their programming could do without maps.
This is not directly related to the school version of intelligence cards, but the experience of those times is of significant interest.
In fact, the development of a particular technique is an attempt to train the ability to choose a goal and a procedure for achieving the desired result. A person is engaged in programming every minute, but does not attach any importance to this.
Using maps allows you to understand how and what happens:
- visually;
- graphically;
- semantically.
Natural, unconsciously executed and familiar algorithms turn into visible elements, the contents of which need to be clearly defined, to build semantic connections and place on a plane in a certain sequence.
Object programming
There are no sequences, but there are real objects that have a very specific meaning and ability to interact with other objects.
Here, each intelligence card = examples of real objects. It is not at all difficult to learn to describe a real object graphically, to indicate its properties and methods of interaction with other objects.
The problem and essence here are fundamentally different in that the general logic is built on the environment of "habitat" of many objects. The environment is its own system of intelligence cards, and each object is a separate structure. The environment begins to function, the training or real business process is gaining momentum, but it is difficult to say which one and when the real object will work. Everything is determined by the current situation.
Intelligence Cards, Recursion Language
The level of the environment of the existence of objects and the objects themselves - excellent knowledge, practical skills to organize information, optimize knowledge and develop intelligence.
But where one apple fell, the apple tree may be. On the monitor screen there may be not one window, but several. When communicating on the Web, it is difficult to limit yourself to a conversation in the same style with a single interlocutor and to avoid the influence of other programs.
Each real system of objects, each card can work more than once and it is not necessary at all that it will “turn” to another card. She can turn to herself and get her own result back. The card can do this many times.
The level of thinking, when the author of intelligence cards gives them the right to recursion, is the highest level of thinking. A simple and important condition is added to the simple conditions for constructing maps, indicated above: any intellect card must be a complete, full-featured product that can be accessed by itself without loss of information, violation of integrity and performance.
Card Performance for Knowledge Acquisition and Use
Starting with simple intelligence cards that implement elementary data categories and the relationships between them:
- through the identification of independent objects functioning in the environment;
- to recursion, that is, the ability to create their own kind and interact with the environment and other objects;
- even if an object of unknown nature and purpose appears.
These three positions are enough to solve almost any task.
The experience of well-known developers of methods for intelligence cards, of course, is important. The works of the founders and well-known theoretical researchers should be used, but still it is not worth stopping at what has been achieved.
Practice shows that the effectiveness of intelligence cards in training and business does not allow doubt: any attempt to systematize information and identify all semantic relationships is the success of any business in itself. But you should never stop there. The world is dynamic, everything is constantly changing, you cannot do without fully functional objects with recursion.