Learning styles
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There are three main cognitive learning styles: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. The visual learner prefers using visual aids, the auditory learner prefers listening and speaking, and the kinesthetic learner prefers hands-on learning. Understanding your preferred learning style can help you study more efficiently by using techniques tailored to how you learn best. While people have different learning styles, learning also occurs in various contexts and is influenced by many factors.
Learning styles
- 2. Three Learning Styles • Everyone processes and learns new information in different ways. There are three main cognitive learning styles: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. The common characteristics of each learning style listed below can help you understand how you learn and what methods of learning best fits you. Understanding how you learn can help maximize time you spend studying by incorporating different techniques to custom fit various subjects, concepts, and learning objectives. Each preferred learning style has methods that fit the different ways an individual may learn best.
- 3. Visual • Uses visual objects such as graphs, charts, pictures, and seeing information • Can read body language well and has a good perception of aesthetics • Able to memorize and recall various information • Tends to remember things that are written down • Learns better in lectures by watching them • • Turn notes into pictures, charts, or maps • Avoid distractions (windows, doorways, etc.) • Learn the big picture first and then focus on the details • Make mind and concept maps instead of outlines • Color code parts of new concepts in your notes • Use flash cards when trying to study vocabulary •
- 4. • Auditory • Retains information through hearing and speaking • Often prefers to be told how to do things and then summarizes the main points out loud to help with memorization • Notices different aspects of speaking • Often has talents in music and may concentrate better with soft music playing in the background
- 5. • Kinesthetic • Likes to use the hands-on approach to learn new material • Is generally good in math and science • Would rather demonstrate how to do something rather than verbally explain it • Usually prefers group work more than others http://study.apnts.org/mod/wiki/view.php?id=1633
- 6. Do Learning Styles Exists? • Video • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=- Jwz_h0zXsY&feature=youtu.be • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIv9rz2N TUk
- 8. What does the Psychologists says? Psychologists have also discovered that people learn in different ways and learning is the most efficient when teachers match the curriculum to the students' particular learning style. http://www.alleydog.com/topics/learning_and_behavior.php#.V d_qPSWqqko#ixzz3k5Bnwcya
- 9. • In addition to learning styles, we learn in different places and situations. learning can be formal (school) or informal. We may learn by practicing behaviors or rote memorization. We learn by watching other people. We learn in from a variety of formats, e.g. multimedia, books, lectures, etc.. Our learning is influenced by our culture, family, social status, genetic traits, developmental ability, and age. Thus, learning is unique to each individual.
- 10. • It is important to note that learning and behavior are linked together. learning can change or modify our behavior while our behaviors are often antecedents for additional learning. You cannot have one without the other. For instance, consider the steps in learning to ride a bicycle. First, we see someone riding a bicycle. Either out of curiosity, desire, or necessity, we decide we want to learn to ride a bike also. Second, we get a bike and sit down on the seat. Third, we push down on the pedals with our feet in order to propel the bike forward. At this point, balance is an important part of riding a bike. As we ride the bike, we may fall several times. We may complete one behavior, i.e. pushing down on the pedals, and improper balance causes us to fall. From the consequence of that behavior, we learn we must lean more to the opposite side so we won't fall on the next try.
- 11. • This process or trial and error continues until we get used to the feeling of balance required to stay upright. We are proud of ourselves as we speed down the street with perfect balance until we realize we don't know how to stop. After more tries and more skinned knees, we finally learn how to stop without getting injured. As seen in this example, learning and behavior precedes additional learning which in turn modifies our behaviors....etc. Therefore these two concepts (learning and behavior) must co-occur for progress to take place. • http://www.alleydog.com/topics/learning_and_behavior.p hp#.Vd_qPSWqqko#ixzz3k5C5bIpS