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Teaching everyone the same way is wrong. Everyone has different learning styles, education and life experience. If there is a large enough market share for a t

Teaching everyone the same way is wrong. Everyone has different learning styles, education and life experience. If there is a large enough market share for a topic grouping like learners together can be very efficient. Creating a one sized fits most solution is the default setting for many educators and yields an "okay" result. Allowing learning at your own pace, with community support and many styles of consumable content will give a excellent result for self motivated individuals. Students who are not motivated or need help with motivation can be handled differently. Edit: Learning styles has a broad meaning more than just the "I'm a visual learner."

jhjhvhvnv 5y ago
"Everyone has different learning styles" is a common misconception.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > "Everyone has different learning styles" is a common misconception The myth of different sensory orientations to learning is definitely, well, a myth; it is probably not justified to go beyond that and say everyone learns best with the same pacing and other details of approach.
ratherbefuddled 5y ago
I thought "learning styles" were largely debunked as a myth now? The linked article describes the structure of a reference book, identifies it as a structure suitable for a reference and those with significant experience, and then decries it as a tutorial for newbies. It seems rather obvious - I wouldn't try learning a new language by reading a dictionary either. It doesn't support the hyperbole in the title. There are many good tutorials for learning to code in different programming languages, sometimes it's hard to pick them out though. What works for me, and pretty much everybody I've watched try to learn anything, is a simple loop. Conceptual explanations (whether written, verbal, or visual), applying the concepts with exercises / practice / work with examples to follow, digging into the details using a reference, and then broadening to the next set of concepts. Eventually the pattern recognition kicks in and people can see the connections and predict the rest.

jhjhvhvnv 5y ago

"Everyone has different learning styles" is a common misconception.

dragonwriter 5y ago
> "Everyone has different learning styles" is a common misconception The myth of different sensory orientations to learning is definitely, well, a myth; it is probably not justified to go beyond that and say everyone learns best with the same pacing and other details of approach.

ratherbefuddled 5y ago

I thought "learning styles" were largely debunked as a myth now? The linked article describes the structure of a reference book, identifies it as a structure suitable for a reference and those with significant experience, and then decries it as a tutorial for newbies. It seems rather obvious - I wouldn't try learning a new language by reading a dictionary either. It doesn't support the hyperbole in the title. There are many good tutorials for learning to code in different programming languages, sometimes it's hard to pick them out though. What works for me, and pretty much everybody I've watched try to learn anything, is a simple loop. Conceptual explanations (whether written, verbal, or visual), applying the concepts with exercises / practice / work with examples to follow, digging into the details using a reference, and then broadening to the next set of concepts. Eventually the pattern recognition kicks in and people can see the connections and predict the rest.