Mnemonics

Here are some creative ways to help bolster memory in your classroom.

Divergent thinking and creative learning are displayed using the instructional method of Mnemonics. Students connect words and phrases to ideas that are easily remembered and often times ideas that mean something to them. The keyword method allows students to take an unfamiliar word and creatively change it into something more meaningful for the individual student. Pegword illustrations allow students to take unfamiliar words and transform them into illustrations meaningful to the student. The link strategy allows students to connect ideas together. These are all examples of how Mnemonics fosters divergent thinking.
-Ashley Jones

As our experience with mnenomics shows, we can be wildly creative with what we come up with to help us remember things. Words, associations, pictures, pegs, keys, links--those we choose to use may not make any sense to anyone else. But they are ways we've created to remember and learn. Perhaps the most creative of the models....
-Jacob Clark