Learning to think. Learning to learn. These are the essential skills for student success in every curriculum area and academic pursuit. Research in both educational theory and cognitive psychology tells us that visual learning is among the very best methods for teaching students of all ages how to think and how to learn.

Our award-winning software tools, Inspiration^®, Kidspiration^® and InspireData™, the latest addition to the Inspiration Software^® family, are based on proven visual learning methodologies that help students think, learn and achieve.

With the powerful combination of visual learning and technology, students in grades K-12 learn to clarify thoughts, organize and analyze information, integrate new knowledge and think critically.

Visual learning techniques help students:

Clarify thoughts
Students see how ideas are connected and realize how information can be grouped and organized. With visual learning, new concepts are more thoroughly and easily understood when they are linked to prior knowledge.

Organize and analyze information
Students can use diagrams and plots to display large amounts of information in ways that are easy to understand and help reveal relationships and patterns.

Integrate new knowledge
According to research, students better remember information when it's represented and learned both visually and verbally.

Think critically
Linked verbal and visual information helps students make connections, understand relationships and recall related details.

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