Students benefit from having a tool for planning and developing a wide range of projects and activities. The innovation that makes Inspiration 6 especially useful is the ability to place hyper links into diagrams and outlines. The emphasis now is to use technology in situations directly related to curriculum. Having students complete concept maps where outside information can easily be accessed by hyper links makes research much more exciting and relevant. In my history classes, I want my students to achieve a thorough understanding of what happened in the past and why.
Inspiration is a great tool for that, because it helps students organize material in different ways.
Because different structures of information allow one to think differently, Inspiration serves the highest purpose in education. Email Robin Christensen . Gathering information and merely repeating it is no longer acceptable. Students need to be able to gather, sort, analyze and apply the information they have acquired. They need to be able to use information to make informed decisions.