Mind mapping is a beneficial learning tool. Mind Maps provide subject overviews succinctly, making even the most complex topic easy to understand and interesting.
I love this technics I used to explain math problems, presentations, etc. There are a few softwares.
Davies, M. (2011). Concept mapping, mind mapping and argument mapping: what are the differences and do they matter?. Higher education, 62(3), 279-301.
Leeds, A. J., Kudrowitz, B., & Kwon, J. (2019). Mapping associations: exploring divergent thinking through mind mapping. International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, 7(1-2), 16-29.
Fu, Q. K., Lin, C. J., Hwang, G. J., & Zhang, L. (2019). Impacts of a mind mapping-based contextual gaming approach on EFL students’ writing performance, learning perceptions and generative uses in an English course. Computers & Education, 137, 59-77.
we know that learning is a central human activity and has
important implications for school, career, and life. When you some learn, you simply can’t absor everything in your brain. Some information will be lost. The quality of thinking, in turn, is determined by the quality of the key questions you ask and attempt to answer as you’re learning. When you’re not asking key questions, your mind wanders, your thoughts scatter, and you can’t identify key concepts essential to your understanding of the subject material.
Because of that mind mapping is a useful effective way of getting information and its uses. Mind mapping is a creative and logical means of note-taking and note-making that literally "maps out" your ideas.
There are a few books
Igor Aleksandar (2001) How to Build a Mind, Columbia Universiry Press
Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, Susan A. Gelman (eds) Mapping the Mind Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture
Abhishek Sharma (2015 by) MINDMAPS in OPHTHALMOLOGY, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
i use mindmdaps (ithoughtsx on apple platform) almost exclusively for writing, as an outlining tool which i can then export as opml, doc rtf, et cet. i find it very useful for thinking out loud in a visual way, allowing me to play with order, relationships, links.
i can see how it might thus be very useful in a classroom for walking a class through the plot of a novel; or the historical sequence of a process or event; or allowing them to walk themselves through whatever the class is discussing ( from a chemical equation or evolutionary process) and demonstrating the flexibility of the creative process.