Properties of an Infograph

An infograph is designed to have a number of different properties. These properties propagate around an idea to reinforce the number of ways in which the mind is able to view it. A single idea represented by an infograph will have the following properties:

1. Pictograph: An image or various images associated with the idea to help explain it.
2. Numeric value: Every idea or word has a unique numeric value associated with it. Students need to be trained to read and think in numbers as part of numeracy.
3. Art: Every idea or word has a unique colour or colour sequence. Students need to be trained to read and think using colour.
4. Music: Every idea or word has a unique sound or sound sequence. Students need to be trained to read and think using music.
5. Sensory: Every idea or word has a unique sensory property that is mapped into touch, taste, emotion even dance and students are taught how to use these natural properties in the learning process. 

This learning takes place initially as a form of play.

By mapping language to music, art and sensory areas such as taste and touch and so on the IGL approach is to encourage greater participation from parts of the brain that present learning programmes do not make use of. An idea that has a numeric value can be remembered through a dance, a specific musical note, colour, taste or physical property a student has been trained to identify it with. These properties are sufficiently defined through the IGL mapping process for students to use them to reinforce conventional academic knowledge.

Using sensory mapping the IGL system opens new learning pathways for students to have a richer learning experience. Shown below are the sensory properties for the 1st infograph in 0-9 IGL numeric sequence for which the idea represented is "peace". 

Mapping significantly increases the materials teachers have at their disposal to use in training students especially at the pre-school stage. Even though sensory learning may be viewed by children as playtime at this stage, through association they are in fact being taught fundamental language skills they will later use to solve complex problems. An approach current learning programmes around the world do not apply.

The table shows that a single idea "Peace" has many properties or
layers through which it may be conveyed. Each layer becomes
a means of teacher/student interaction in the early stage IGL learning process.

Cultivating natural genius

Current educational programmes do not harness the sensory system to the academic process in education. However, every property of an infograph depicted in the table above may seem simple or even arbitrary, nevertheless it represents a layer of genius that is not being properly used in the learning process today.

A student who is particularly gifted at recognising musical notes and changes in pitch following a conventional western style academic programme may go on to become a prolific pianist, musician or composer of music. However, in an IGL programme musical tones, pitches and sounds are directly mapped to infographs and the ideas they represent allowing students to apply academic complexity to sound . This means that a student gifted in music does not have this gift isolated to the field of music alone, but is also able to apply it to academic ability in mathematics, language and memory. Even dance, as a sensory process, is mapped into the IGL linguistic methodology allowing physical movement to be translated into complex academic ideas and thought that can lead to solving mathematical problems. Even though dance involves physical movement it can be performed virtually in the mind and since it is linked to language it forms a potential layer for processing information currently missing from western styled academic programmes. 

These layers open up new fun, yet meaningful areas for teacher student interaction beginning at the pre-school level. At this level teachers can interact with students using many different classroom experiences to represent an idea such as dance, musical sound, water, geographical terrain and so on until a child becomes able to subconsciously interpret the layer and the infograph it is linked to. As shown in the table above the infograph for peace has many layers of mental associative reinforcement.

IGL is a rich academic tool able to integrate sensory forms of learning current academic programmes are simply incapable of doing. For instance, IGL infographs can integrate with any form of dance and corresponding music from rhumba to classical dance, from ballet to dubstep, where every beat and movement can be integrated with mathematics and language. What would appear as simple music and dance moves can be used to reinforce memory, solve mathematical problems and improve general academic prowess.  What skills students and children acquire in music and dance they love to do and perform in, they can also harness to academic and cognitive skills.

The video below shows how even a dubstep beat and dance through muscle memory and music can be integrated into mathematics, memory and language students can use in a classroom setting to enhance their IQ and mental ability, transferring it through IGL numeric processes to areas such as physics or chemistry, something impossible to do with current learning methods. This kind of integration is what is referred to in IGL as the cultivation of genius.

IGL can be academically integrated into any 

genre of music, and any form of physical movement and dance.