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I have some connections to schools, and "learning styles" is not a major concept at all. "Teaching modalities" (lecture, reading, labs) seems similar at a glanc

I have some connections to schools, and "learning styles" is not a major concept at all. "Teaching modalities" (lecture, reading, labs) seems similar at a glance, but it's quite different. It's not that each person has a preferred modality, it's that different modalities have different benefits in a relative non-student-specific way. It's a weird contrarisn fad on HN to constantly rehash old debunkings of research no one in the real world cares about.

j45 8y ago
Nice. By schools, I'm presuming you meant K-12 in the US. My comment is about the post-secondary academic research community focused on education (particularly in North America, and more so in Canada).. Modalities, pedagogies, all are drawing away from the experience that the students are not getting that they should. US post-secondaries are starting to innovate, still good pockets of activity are not making a suit. Happy to chat offline, have been a technologist in delivering digital education (K-12, Post-secondary and corporate) for a while.