Build Essential Learning Skills

Learning to think. Learning to learn. These are the essential skills for student success in every curriculum area and academic pursuit. Research in educational theory and cognitive psychology tells us that visual learning techniques are among the very best methods for teaching students of all ages how to think and how to learn. Using graphic organizers provides students with visual ways of working with information and presenting ideas. Kidspiration® and Inspiration Software® build on these proven methodologies across all curriculum areas to help students succeed.

Working visually inspires students to tap into their own creativity, and to clarify their thoughts, reinforce understanding, integrate new knowledge, and identify misconceptions. Kidspiration and Inspiration apply the ease and fluidity of technology to visual learning, making it intuitive, engaging, and immediately rewarding for students to explore their great ideas and learn.

Visual Learning Improves:

Performance
Research shows that using visual learning techniques strengthens skills that improve achievement across the curriculum.

Critical thinking
Graphic organizers allow information to be interconnected verbally and visually, which facilitates making connections, understanding relationships, and recalling related details.

Retention
When students record and represent information both visually and verbally, they are taking advantage of a learning phenomenon called dual coding. Research shows when information is encoded in more than one way, it is more accessible, and retention improves.

Comprehension
When visual learning activities are integrated into classroom instruction, student comprehension is supported as new ideas are connected to prior knowledge.

Organization
Using diagrams, students can display large volumes of information in ways that are comprehensible and that reveal relationships and patterns.

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