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My mother taught high school for 23 years and I went to a private school with a unique curriculum and philosophy around education. I then went and taught and a
by dopamean 11y ago
My mother taught high school for 23 years and I went to a private school with a unique curriculum and philosophy around education. I then went and taught and a coding bootcamp for a little while. In all my experience in education - as a student, teacher, and son - I have repeatedly heard about different learning styles but have yet to see any evidence of them in the wild. It always felt like pseudoscience or BS theories.
The things I heard were often difficult to argue with as well. One thing that often made me feel like it was BS was that I never heard a learning style that fit with how I learned and I don't believe I'm special.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoMaybe self-selection going on?
- vorg 11y agoMany people majoring in a second language learn better aurally/orally, whereas those at a coding bootcamp perhaps learn better visually. Perhaps the obvious existence of these two primary learning styles has been expanded on and exaggerated so much that it has now become largely bogus, e.g. those explained on Wikipedia's learning_styles page.
- jacalata 11y agoHow are those obvious? I majored in French and am a programmer and haven't come across this stereotype before.
- vorg 11y agoIt's obvious to me based on my own experiences. Of course I'm talking about a "French as a Foreign/Second Language" major, not "French" like they teach in American high schools. And I'm talking about Computer Science or Software Engineering majors, not self-taught webpage developers. The rough visual-verbal spectrum for learners is obvious for me, and when teaching, we need activities that utilize both the visual and verbal faculties. I'm surprised you haven't encountered this continuum.