When a person has learned a symbolic system well enough to use it, she has established a portable, self-contained world within the mind. The learner is motivated to use visual thinking tools because he or she enjoys the intellectual challenge of active visual construction of ideas, both as an individual and as a participant in group activity. The chances for successful problem solving are enhanced by application of visual thinking tools, and increase the learner's satisfaction as a result. The crucial point here is that they are tools used for construction of content knowledge, not just storage structures for ideas already developed. BrainStorming Webs Webs are closely integrated, holistic and usually unstructured diagrams starting with a central idea.
Free association is used with an ideosyncratic graphic scheme to show relations with other ideas.
Webs primarily support individual learning. A Student Web using Inspiration Software. These are visual tools used to manage and display information in a highly formalized, refined, rule-based process designed to apply to a specific content learning environment. They are used to learn particular skills, to understand processes used for a defined task, or to organize information in a pattern used only in a specific arena of knowledge. Organization, specified by the teacher, is given emphasis over creative construction of ideas by the learner.