Inspiration's integrated Outline view enables students to quickly prioritize and rearrange ideas, helping them create clear, concise writing. Educators across the nation are using Inspiration to help teach students thinking skills. Visual learning techniques such as concept maps, webs and graphical organizers help students process and retain new information by making connections between new and existing knowledge. Whether it's planning research, designing a multimedia presentation or writing a paper, Inspiration helps students clarify and organize their ideas. Research has shown that visual learning is one of the best methods for teaching thinking skills.
Visual diagrams reveal patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies.
They also stimulate creative thinking. Students understand how ideas are connected. They see where they have a great deal of passion or information about a topic, making new concepts more thoroughly and easily understood. Students also begin to realize how ideas may be grouped or organized. Reinforce understanding .