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> For example, I mainly learn by doing or reading. If someone gives me a lecture I will remember almost nothing later. The myth here is that you might think yo
by jordigh 9y ago
> For example, I mainly learn by doing or reading. If someone gives me a lecture I will remember almost nothing later.
The myth here is that you might think you're different than others in this regard. Pretty much every human can easily space out during a lecture. Pretty much every human can learn something better if they do it themselves or can understand a graph better than a list of numbers. Everyone is a visual learner, everyone learns by doing. A lesson should incorporate all of these aspects.
- maxxxxx 9y agoI am different from others. I have a combination of genetic traits plus life experience that makes me different. So is everybody else different from others. Some more extroverted, some more introverted. Some learn better visually, some kinesthetic, some auditive. This doesn't mean someone is exclusively visual but there certainly are preferences.
- Glyptodon 9y agoPeople having preferences doesn't mean it's good for them to always have those preferences catered to or that their preferences actually match any empirical evidence evaluating their personal learning performance. It's even possible that people might decide "I don't learn this way" and tune out in situations where they could still learn if they latch onto only using their preferred "style."
- dragandj 9y agoYou cannot learn dancing by singing, whatever preferences you have. You have to dance. That's what the article is about.
- maxxxxx 9y agoI can learn dancing by observing other dancers or I can learn dancing by someone telling me the steps. Some people prefer the first approach, some the second. There is no single way to learn dancing.
- dragandj 9y agoYou actually learned dancing by having someone telling you the steps? What dance exactly, and how did they explain the steps? What skill level did you achieve?
- maxxxxx 9y agoI thought most people learn dancing by someone telling them the steps. At least in ballroom dancing. How do they explain the steps? "left, left, right, 1,2,3,4 turn" or similar. I never got really good but I think was a competent dancer. In any case, this thread is not fun anymore. Either I am totally weird or there is some communication going wrong.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> I thought most people learn dancing by someone telling them the steps. No. Most people learn dancing by watching and repeating, with some explanation along with it. > At least in ballroom dancing. How do they explain the steps? In large part by demonstration (there's description that goes along, but the demonstration is primary.) Source: I've nearly completed a long course of instruction for ballroom dance teachers, from a well-regarded teacher-of-teachers, and have taken lots of ballroom dance classes, some from internationally-recognized teachers. > "left, left, right, 1,2,3,4 turn" or similar. That's more how they cue students going through a pattern that's been demonstrated than how they explain a pattern. You can explain a pattern in words without demonstration (manuals do this, for instance), but that's usually done as reference material that accompanied traditional teaching-by-demonstration (or, for auto-didacts, videos in place of in-person demonstration), and it sucks on its own; you need a lot of contextual knowledge to get value out of it.
- WalterBright 9y agoTeaching dance by steps is like teaching racing by telling the student to turn left 4 times each lap.
- cestith 9y agoNobody fully learns dancing by either of those methods. To be a dancer, one must learn dance by dancing.
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- dragonwriter 9y ago> Some learn better visually, some kinesthetic, some auditive. That's the exact myth that actual research has shown is mostly false. > This doesn't mean someone is exclusively visual but there certainly are preferences. There are certainly preferences (in some part, this is a product of people buying into the myth), but the research keeps showing that catering to those preferences doesn't actually improve learning, and actually makes it worse compared to balanced approaches which address multiple modes rather than focussing on a learners perceived "preferred" mode.
- wolco 9y agoFor different people each one of those methods might he easier than the other. I pay attention in lectures and meeting never take notes and that forces me to take everything in and engage fully. Reading and learning is more difficult because it involved in two activities .