InspireData™: A Must-have Tool for Integrating Math into Every Subject
Most database software is difficult for teachers to get their hearts and minds around. Ordinary database software is arcane, unfathomable, elusive, scary.
But, the folks at Inspiration™ software have created a database program that teachers must have.
The name of this program is InspireData™.
Link to the InspireData™ Informati0n Page
No Teacher should be Without This Program
The InspireData™ Web page seems like "a lot of hype."
But, here is the truth.
Teachers miss an opportunity for propelling student learning to every-higher planes of cognition, unless they integrate math into every subject, every day.
From the InspireData™ propaganda page…
InspireData™ applies the proven strategies of visual learning to data literacy, inspiring students to discover meaning as they collect and explore data in a dynamic inquiry process.
Students formulate questions and make connections between data and its visual representations to interpret information, solve problems and draw conclusions. As a result, students develop deeper content knowledge and stronger critical thinking skills.
InspireData helps students successfully:
- Strengthen the inquiry process
- Build data analysis skills
- Improve data literacy
Making Math Concrete
InspireData™ does not teach students, teachers do.
But, anyone who knows about learning styles (or Multiple Intelligences) realized that meaningful repetition, pre-introduction of information, and the integration of information through concept-based learning are important keys for memory and retention.
Request InspireData™ Now
Put in your request that your school district budget for, and purchase this product for every campus. Target the purchase of this product for the start of the next school year (2007-08).
Those teachers that work in a wealthy (or forward thinking) school district will have this product installed during the summer.
Other teachers will have to wait until the budgeting bureaucracy creaks and clanks its way clear to purchase this product.
There are a lot of ways to pay for this product. For example, purchase this product instead of buying new band uniforms.
Or, why not ground every bus for one day, allow car pooling and healthy walking, and the district could easily pay for the campus site licenses.
In the worst case scenario, a bake sale for two (maybe three days) at lunchtime should more than cover the cost.
Accept No Excuses
Budget managers, bureaucrats all, may attempt to stonewall, co opt, derail or distract you from obtaining this product for your students. But, do not fall prey to their ploys.
Accept no substitutes. Don't settle for less. Accept no excuses.
It is seldom useful to go the distance with the bureaucrats because they wear their opposition down with sheer inertial. But acquiring this product is not one of those times.
Go after this product and keep dogging the appropriate, "lethargic paper-pusher" until you prompt action.
You will be glad that you did.
Sidebar
Note: Classroom Toolkit is not related to the Inspiration™ software company in any way and does not receive any compensation for providing this recommendation.
This recommendation is based upon our belief that concrete and visual math concepts must be presented to students in meaningful ways, during every subject, every day.
Anything less "shortchanges" our students.
