Concept mapping is a powerful tool for cognitive learning; as students are creating the concepts, they are also reiterating their ideas, using their own words and definitions, communicating these ideas, brainstorming and discovering new concepts in addition to the old, without realizing that they are actually learning in the process. The incorporation of images in such maps produces and creates visual thinking; providing students to learn with a better understanding, and to retain ideas, words and concepts associated with using images. Such mapping activities give students the freedom, with few constraints and guidelines in format and structure, an opportunity to learn and make connections between concepts on their own; another approach in which technology integration benefits, challenges and prepares the students of today.