Information Processing and Learning Styles
- 1. EDU1: Information Processing and Learning Styles
- 2. 12 Ways of Processing Information • Visual • Auditory • Tactile • Kinesthetic • Sequential • Simultaneous • Reflective/logical • Verbal • Interactive • direct experience • indirect experience • rhythmic/melodic
- 3. Visual Teaching: • This method allows students to use their sense of sight to encode information or employ their internal ability to visualize classroom content. • • Seeing a diagram, web or flow chart • • Seeing an image • • Seeing a movie or video
- 4. Auditory Instruction: • This method allows children to use their sense of hearing to process information by listening. • • Listening to a lecture • • Listening to a debate • • Listening to a story or audiobook • • Listening to a podcast
- 5. Tactile Teaching: • This method allows involves teaching students to learn by touching or manipulating objects. • • Touching and manipulating an artifact • • Conducting a hands-on experiment • • Copying or tracing diagrams or tables • • Making dioramas
- 6. Kinesthetic Instruction: • Kinesthetic modalities help students learn while moving or employing body movements. • • Role-playing scenarios or doing skits • • Participating in field trips • • Conducting interactive experiments
- 7. Sequential Teaching: • This method allows students to learn the material in a specific order. • • Breaking down information into a series of steps • • Making flow charts • • Placing events in sequence on a timeline
- 8. Simultaneous Instruction: • This method allows students to learn “the big picture,” or the overall message and how the detail are interrelated. • • Producing summaries • • Explaining the overall meaning • • Creating concept maps or webs • • Looking at a timeline to gleam the overall relationships
- 9. Reflective/Logical Teaching: • This method allows students to use their reasoning skills to solve problems and ponder complex issues. • • Brainstorming solutions to dilemmas • • Analyzing material or lab work • • Offering reflective writing opportunities • • Conducting discussions that explore a deeper meaning
- 10. Verbal Instruction: • This method allows students to learn information by talking about it. • • Breaking students into discussion groups • • Encouraging students to verbally rehearse their understanding of information • • Asking students to think aloud • • Meeting with students and questioning them about the material
- 11. Interactive Teaching: • This method allows students to learn information in the company of other people. • • Organizing a group debate • • Breaking into small group activities • • Conducting a question-answer session • • Meeting with students after class and answering questions as they complete assignments.
- 12. Indirect Experience Teaching: • This method allows students to learn from the experiences of others: vicarious learning. • • Learning from your others' experiences • • Reading a biography • • Watching demonstrations
- 13. Direct Experience Instruction: • This method allows students to learn through their own personal experiences. • • Conducting lab experiments • • Going on field trips • • Taking part in an apprenticeship program
- 14. Rhythmic/Melodic Instruction: • This method allows students to see patterns or pair melodies and rhythm to the information they are learning. • • Suggesting patterns/themes across course content • • Pointing out songs that address the course themes • • Bringing in a musical piece that reflects a time period and creates a mood • • Using songs to memorize content
- 15. So Many Ways! How do I do it all???? • Create learning stations that enable students to pick activities, practice materials, complete handouts, and make projects that teach and reinforce new knowledge. • Design multisensory learning lessons. For example, doing a skit is highly multisensory because it is auditory, visual, kinesthetic, verbal, and interactive. • Offer homework or project options that provide a number of multisensory learning activities. • Offer choice in assessment.
- 16. Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
- 18. Your Turn • Next, take the MI Survey to see what is your highest type of Intelligence: https://www.literacynet.org/mi/assessment/fin dyourstrengths.html
- 19. Put it all together • Write a response to the following prompts: • Identify your top three learning styles. Describe each one. Do you think that this quiz is accurate? Why or why not? • Refer to what we learned last week about classroom management. Challenging Charlie is a student in your class. Pretend Charlie has the same three learning styles that you have. What things you could do to ensure Charlie has a great day and why they would work. What things could contribute to Charlie having a rough day and why?