Inspiring the Visual Learners

1
Inspiring the Visual Learners

• Presented byRebecca Riberich

2
Students today

• In a world of visual stimuli, kids today tend to
  learn more when they can picture the concept.
• Computers, video games, and graphics are visually
  stimulating to invoke learning.
• How can teachers use technology to help students
  make connections to concepts and ideas?

3
Inspiration Software

• Technology via visual learning to help students
  learn!

4
How Can Visual Learning Benefit my Students???

• Visual learning is a proven method in which
  ideas, concepts, data and other information are
  associated with images and represented
  graphically.

• Visual learning helps students improve academic
  performance and achieve success across the
  curriculum.

5
How Can Visual Learning Help?

• Research has proven that visual learning is one
  of the best methods of teaching valuable
  comprehension, thinking and writing skills.

• By combining the power of visual learning it can
  leverage the strength of multiple learning styles
  to improve students' comprehension and retention.

6
The Power of Learning

• 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.

7
The Power of Learning

• 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.

8
Clarifying 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.

9
Organize, Analyze, and Integrate

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

10
Types of Inspiration
11

• InspireData builds critical data literacy skills
  and engages students.
• They actively explore and analyze data using
  dynamic Venn, bar, stack, pie and axis plots to
  interpret information and draw conclusions.

12

• As students organize and analyze data they ask
  meaningful questions and dig deeper to solve
  problems.
• They move beyond simply memorizing facts and
  start acquiring the skills of reasoning, inquiry
  and communication.
• This process builds data literacy and makes
  learning a richer, more meaningful experience.

13
(No Transcript)
14
(No Transcript)
15
(No Transcript)
16
(No Transcript)
17

• Created for K-5 learners, Kidspiration provides
  an easy way to apply the proven principles of
  visual learning.
• Students build graphic organizers by combining
  pictures, text and spoken words to represent
  thoughts and information.
• Younger learners develop early literacy skills,
  and more advanced students improve comprehension
  skills and better organize ideas for writing.

18

• Tap multiple learning styles
• The powerful combination of visual
  representations, text-based outlines and
  Kidspiration's speech capabilities encourages
  learning in multiple modes.

19

• Develop emerging literacy skills
• Students take advantage of the power of the
  picture to build early reading and writing
  skills. With Symbol Maker, they draw to visually
  express their thoughts. Paired words and symbols
  in Writing View help students make the literacy
  connection.

20

• Categorize and group ideas
• Super Grouper shapes - symbols that represent
  main topics or concepts - offer young students a
  visual way to sort, group, classify and compare.
• Students simply drag words or picture symbols
  into Super Grouper shapes to show relationships.
• With Kidspiration, students can now create Venn
  diagrams or choose any symbol to represent
  categories - adding more visual meaning to
  grouping activities.

21

• Express and organize thoughts
• Using Kidspiration, students advance through the
  writing process, developing well-organized
  stories and reports.
• In Picture View, they create graphic organizers
  to brainstorm and organize ideas.
• Work is automatically available in Writing View
  format for drafting.
• Then with one click, projects can be moved to a
  word processor to be finalized.

22

• Build comprehension skills
• In Put Reading First, the National Reading Panel
  cites the use of graphic organizers as a key
  strategy for developing text comprehension.
• With Kidspiration, students use graphic
  organizers to show and explore relationships as
  well as improve comprehension and retention of
  information.

23
(No Transcript)
24
(No Transcript)
25
(No Transcript)
26

• Inspiration is the essential tool students rely
  on to plan, research and complete projects
  successfully. With the integrated Diagram and
  Outline Views, they create graphic organizers and
  expand topics into writing.

27

• This powerful combination encourages learning in
  multiple modes. As a result, students gain and
  retain a better understanding of concepts and
  demonstrate knowledge, improving their
  performance across the curriculum.

28

• Educators use Inspiration to customize
  instruction, achieve standards, assess student
  projects and energize learning. An expanded
  selection of 120 cross-curricular templates in
  language arts, social studies, science, planning
  and thinking makes starting assignments quick and
  easy.

29

• Visualize ideas, concepts and relationships
• In Diagram View, students create graphic
  organizers a core element of visual learning
  to analyze, compare and evaluate information.
• They quickly brainstorm new ideas with the
  RapidFire tool, search the symbol collection to
  find images to represent any concept, and insert
  and play multimedia files.
• To show relationships between ideas, students
  link symbols and add words to further clarify
  meaning.

30

• Improve writing proficiency
• As they start the writing process, students use
  visually integrated notes to expand topics and
  switch to Outline View to further develop their
  ideas.
• The integrated Word Guide helps students choose
  words with more precision, and a contextual spell
  checker automatically identifies misspelled
  words.
• To finalize projects, students can transfer to
  their favorite word processor or transform their
  work into a web site with the Site Skeleton
  export tool.

31

• Plan and organize projects
• Inspiration helps students organize information,
  develop thinking skills and demonstrate
  knowledge.
• Drag-and-drop actions and hyperlinks make it easy
  to gather research and connect to files and web
  resources.
• As students develop their projects, they use
  AutoArrange to automatically format their
  diagrams.

32
(No Transcript)
33
(No Transcript)
34

• Why should you use visual learning???
• 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.

35
Examples of Inspiration Word

• Social Studies
• Political Election
• Political Science
• Benjamin Franklin
• Our World Activity
• Personal Heritage Activity

36
Examples of Inspiration Word

• Science
• Circulatory System
• Respiratory System
• Cloud Project Directions
• States of Matter
• Classifying Matter Game
• The Water Cycle

37
Examples of Inspiration Word

• Math
• Chapter Summary on Multiplication
• Chapter Summary on Algebra
• Chapter Summary on Division
• Chapter Summery with Definitions
• Adding Fractions Diagram
• Graphing

38
Examples of Inspiration Word

• Language Arts
• Adventure Stories
• Describing any word
• Compare and Contrast Venn Style Diagram
• Postcard Writing Project
• Writing Process

39
Now it is our turn to try as a group

• Directions Please read the biography of Walt
  Disney. Find information about him to make a
  Inspiration Biography as a group.

40
(No Transcript)