By:
Katelyn Colin
Amy Hoff
Aubree McKinney
What is Kidspiration?
Created for K-5 learners, Kidspiration uses the proven principles of visual learning to strengthen reading and writing skills, build conceptual understanding in math, and develop thinking skills across the curriculum.
Applications for Teachers:
- Assist in organizing data and information
- Allows for easily planning lessons, units and themes
- Helps in creating easy to read diagrams
- Defines new topics in an engaging way to appeals to children
- Flow charts for behavior plans for either the classroom or a specific student
- Can record directions in own voice for the students to better understand
Applications for Students:
- Develops thinking, literacy, and numeracy skills using proven visual learning principles
- Research shows that visual learning is one of the best methods for understanding thinking skills
- Visual learning techniques
- graphical ways of working with ideas and presenting information
- teach students to clarify their thinking and to process, organize, and prioritize new information
Presentation:
https://docs.google.com/a/asu.edu/present/edit?id=0AcNXytMJSx9lZGN6bXBmNXRfMmh0cmhxZ2Rn&hl=en
Citations:
Bafile, Cara. "The Concept-Mapping Classroom." Education World® The Educator's Best Friend. 12 Mar. 2003. Web. 01 Sept. 2010. <http://www.educationworld.com/>.
Kendall, Diane S. "Kidspiration: Making Math and More Come to Life." Power to Learn. Web. 01 Sept. 2010. <http://www.powertolearn.com/>.
"Kidspiration - The Visual Way to Explore and Understand Words, Numbers and Concepts | Inspiration.com." Inspiration Software, Inc. - The Leader in Visual Thinking and Learning | Inspiration.com. Web. 14 Sept. 2010. <http://www.inspiration.com/Kidspiration>.
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