What's Your Learning Style
- 1. What’s Your Learning Style? Paula Collins
- 2. Cognitive Style vs. Learning Style Cognitive Style – an individual’s preferences for ways of intellectually processing information Learning Style – an individual’s preferences for ways of learning
- 3. Kolb’s Theory of Learning Style Kolb’s (1984) Model of Learning Style represents one of the best known approaches. Cranton- Working with Adult Learners
- 4. Kolb’s 4 Stages of Learning Concrete experience Reflective observation Abstract conceptualization Active experimentation Stages form a learning cycle (individuals usually prefer one stage more than the others).
- 5. Jarvis (1987) Learning Styles are susceptible to change and not necessarily a permanent trait Experience may influence a learner’s behavior Learning Style is a preference, not a personality characteristic Jarvis (1987)
- 6. Visual-Spatial Learning Style Visual - of, relating to, or used in vision, attained or maintained by sight Spatial - relating to, occupying, or having the character of space
- 7. Visual style - prefer using images, pictures, colors and maps to communicate and organize information Spatial style – good sense of direction, good with maps
- 8. Characteristics of Visual-Spatial Learners Usually have difficulty with written language and do better with charts, demonstrations, videos, and other visual materials. Easily visualize faces and places by using their imagination and seldom get lost in new surroundings.
- 9. I Think in Pictures, you Teach in Words The Gifted Visual Spatial Learner Dr. Linda Silverman, Pioneer of the Visual Spatial Learner Concept
- 10. Dr. Silverman identified two types of gifted visual spatial learners: 1)Children identified as gifted who score extremely high on an IQ test because of their great ability both with tasks using visual spatial processing and those requiring auditory sequential thinking processes .
- 11. 2) Children who are brighter than their IQ scores, who have great ability in visual spatial processing and marked weaknesses in auditory sequential processing . These children are often not identified as gifted and they struggle at school because their intelligence is not recognised and neither is their unique learning style .
- 12. Hereditary Link The visual spatial style appears to be hereditary. Always at least one parent who shares this learning style with the child. However, it can also originate as compensation for auditory sequential processing difficulties associated with multiple ear nose and throat infections in early childhood (Silverman, 1998).
- 13. Summary Everyone learns and interprets information differently Instruction should be diversified and appeal to multiple learning styles Most individuals share some characteristics of multiple learning styles
- 14. In Howard Gardner’s words, “ Do not pigeon-hole people… we are all capable of learning under any style or intelligence, no matter what our preference is”.
- 15. Bibliography Cranton, Patricia. (1992). Working with Adult Learners Emerging Technologies. Learning Styles. February 5, 2005, from http://www.emtech.net/learning_styles.html Gardner, Howard. (1993). Frames of mind : The theory of multiple intellegences (10th anniversary edition). New York: Basic Books. Learnativity.com. Learning Styles. from http://www.learnativity.com/learningstyles.html NSW Assn for Gifted & Talented Children Inc. I Think in Pictures, You Teach in Words , Silverman, Linda. online article by Lesley Sword, Retrieved November 2, 2005, from http://www.nswagtc.org.au/ozgifted/conferences/SwordVisualSpatial.html