Krechevsky and Stork (2000) stress the importance of learning from other people, as opposed to individual learning, but lament that 'many of our cultural images of teachers, parents, children and schools themselves stand in the way of realising such communities of democratic participation'
This site allows students to create mind maps online. These can also be downloaded as PDFs once created. There is also an iphone app that they can use. A bonus is that more than one student can work on a mind map at the same time