learning style

Examples of learning style in the following topics:

• Educational Implications for Learning Styles

  • Teachers that rely on learning styles have opened their classrooms to more than one approach to intellectual work.
  • The first step in implementing learning style-based instruction is diagnosing the individual learning styles of each student.
  • A variety of methods exist for testing learning styles in a relatively quick manner.
  • For example, the students can complete multidimensional packets, which contain activities from each learning style.
  • These projects would require that students use all learning styles.

• Learning Styles

  • The term "learning styles" is commonly used throughout various educational fields and therefore, has many connotations.
  • The National Association of Secondary School Principals defines learning style as, "the composite of characteristic cognitive, affective, and physiological factors that serve as relatively stable indicators of how a learner perceives, interacts with, and responds to the learning environment. " Other phrases are used interchangeably with learning styles.
  • Some include perceptual styles, learning modalities, and learning preferences.
  • The four most common learning styles are visual, aural, reading/writing, and kinesthetic/tactile.
  • Once a person's learning style is ascertained, accommodations can be made to increase academic achievement and creativity, as well as improve attitudes toward learning.

• Effective Teaching Strategies

  • Learning style is an individual's natural or habitual pattern of acquiring and processing information in learning situations.
  • Proponents of the use of learning styles in education recommend that teachers assess the learning styles of their students and adapt their teaching strategies to best fit their students' learning styles.
  • One conceptualization of different styles of learning identifies three main modalities: visual learning, auditory learning, and kinesthetic learning.
  • Visual learning is a learning style in which ideas, concepts, data and other information are associated with images and techniques.
  • Auditory learning is a learning style in which a person learns through listening.

• CMC and Education

  • Some technologies allow for synchronous and asynchronous communications, others simulate classroom learning environments, while still others can be targeted to specific educational theories and learning styles.
  • Which technologies best support my own teaching/learning needs?

• References

  • Teaching and learning through Multiple Intelligences.
  • Seattle, WA: New Horizons for Learning.
  • An organization of learning style theory and constructs.
  • Teaching students through their individual learning styles.
  • Thinking styles: Their relationships with modes of thinking and academic performance.

• What is Pedagogy?

  • Understanding and designing instruction based on a learning style defined by the individual brought about new theories and approaches to teaching.
  • Universal Design for learning is a method of instructional design and lesson planning which takes into account the different learning styles of learners.
  • Educators who utilize this model can become more efficient and effective teachers by creating lessons and classroom activities which allow learners from these different learning style groups to be taught simultaneously reducing the need for remedial or developmental work later to "catch up" learners whose style was not addressed in the planned lesson.
  • There are five different learning styles, which can be remembered by the acronym VARK: Visual, or learners who learn by seeing or having something demonstrated; Aural, or learners who learn by hearing; Read/Write, or learners who learn simply by reading material and/or writing about material; Kinesthetic, or learners who learn by physically doing something.
  • Lesson planning which attempts to cater to all four of the learning styles is most effective as a larger population of learners will benefit from the content and teaching methods.

• Toolkit for Facilitators of Adult Learning

  • Much of adult learning occurs in a corporate environment involving a variety of training processes.
  • In addition to applying the various learning styles discussed in previous ebook chapters, trainers/facilitators in such environments need to have a working skill set to meet the demands of fast-paced, changing environments.
  • The ability to read the context, assess needs, and select or create appropriate mini-learning sessions that are often delivered as just in time learning
  • The use of reflective practice skills to make sense of their situation, tailoring learning solutions to their own and other local learning needs, developing and nurturing collaborative communities of practice
  • The ability to use more than one delivery system, particularly online and eLearning

• Introduction

  • There are conflicting perspectives on adult learning as it relates to and separates itself from early childhood development practices and overall approaches to learning.
  • It is the belief of the authors that all styles of learning are applicable to both early childhood and adult learning, with differences presenting themselves in regard to the use of the style based on the learning environment.
  • In this narrated PowerPoint presentation, we have explored the theory of the Adult Learning environment by including examples of teaching assistants, e-learning in technical colleges, and self-directed learning.

• Introduction

  • Various theories on learning have been developed with increasing frequency in the last few decades.
  • In order to understand the relationship between these theories, Curry's onion model (Curry, 1983) was developed with four layers -- personality learning theories, information processing theories, social learning theories, and multidimensional and instructional theories.
  • Personality learning theories define the influences of basic personality on preferences to acquiring and integrating information.
  • Multidimensional and instructional theories address the student's environmental preference for learning and includes the Learning Style Model of Dunn and Dunn and the multiple intelligences theory of Howard Gardner (http://www.teresadybvig.com/learnsty.htm).
  • This chapter focuses on this type of learning theory by Howard Gardner.

• Personalized Learning

  • Personalized Learning is the tailoring of pedagogy, curriculum, and learning environments to meet the needs of individual learners.
  • Personalized learning is the tailoring of pedagogy, curriculum, and learning environments to meet the needs and aspirations of individual learners.
  • Personalization is broader than just individualization or differentiation in that it affords the learner a degree of choice about what is learned, when it is learned and how it is learned.
  • However, it may provide learners the opportunity to learn in ways that suit their individual learning styles and multiple intelligences.
  • Personal Learning Environments (PLE) are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning.