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I don't know if 'learning styles' are a thing or not, but I will point out that there are two broad categories. The first, which is often refuted in studies li
by dhimes 9y ago
I don't know if 'learning styles' are a thing or not, but I will point out that there are two broad categories. The first, which is often refuted in studies like these, I think of "sensory input" learning styles. The VARK (there are others) are basically, roughly, talking about how we get information into our brains. More or less the five senses.
More interesting to me are a second group, the cognitive learning styles, such as http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Learning_Styles.html http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Lea...
These are more about the mental processing that goes on. Are you better at learning one step at a time, or do you need to get the "big picture" before the steps even make sense and are somewhat tractable to you?
- moate 9y agoI think it's hard to refute the idea that "certain people do better learning certain things in certain environments." It's hard to figure out which levers should be used (change the people? change the material? change the learning environment/teaching style?) to best educate.