Posted on 08/12/2022 6:42:10 PM PDT by T Ruth
Because its guardians haven't been bothering with the tiresome old "education" part.
I disagree with this long-winded pooh-poohing. It’s just common sense that with the actual diversity of human beings, there would certainly be large clusters in several areas.
I cannot put a number on it. I do not think the concept of learning styles is completely without merit. But it is overused and often an excuse. But, for example, I have a difficult time taking notes due to physiological issues, I cannot write fast enough to keep up. So, I compensated by become a better reader and having a better memory.
Is that a learning style? Or is it an adaptive or maladaptive strategy?
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Cover for cramming kids into public classrooms and teaching them all the same way. If “Learning Styles” is believed by so many educators, why do they insist on 1 curriculum, 1 way of teaching it? Seems to me that nobody actually believes it - if they did they would evaluate each child and match them with a teacher that meets his learning style.
didn’t Montessori prove a rigid sit in classroom for 6 hrs is antithetical to learning?
“Many people, including educators, believe learning styles are set at birth and predict both academic and career success
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But gender isn’t.
Hmmmmm.
But they should be able to declare their learning style, right?
I have a wife and two kids and can verify that what "studies show" is BS.
They keep ignoring the elephant in the room - IQ.
Is there an audio version of the article?
He said their research identified four patterns. If I recall correctly, the patterns were described this way:
We learn by
(1) listening, reading, writing, and asking questions to make sure the information is accurate;
(2) organizing information in some way;
(3) solving a problem on our own - for example, fixing a radio or something;
(4) and thinking creatively, outside the box.
I might not be describing those patterns exactly the way he did. It was a long time ago.
But, he said all of us learn through all four patterns, but most of us tend to rely on one pattern and avoid another.
And that made perfect sense.
I cannot put a number on it. I do not think the concept of learning styles is completely without merit. But it is overused and often an excuse. But, for example, I have a difficult time taking notes due to physiological issues, I cannot write fast enough to keep up. So, I compensated by become a better reader and having a better memory.
Is that a learning style? Or is it an adaptive or maladaptive strategy.
....... Thank you for saying that. Of course everyone tries to learn in ways that are most productive.
However, imo we have robbed kids of the gifts of memorization. No matter how long it takes,every child benefits from memorizing the basics of math, grammar, spelling, reading. Here, forget about adapting or learning style. Just hang with every kid until the above are memorized. One day or a hundred, give every kid those tools.
Ping.
I found the learning styles theory to be fairly accurate.
My oldest two are like me and visual learners. My youngest learned by doing and hearing. Visual just didn’t work for her. Me? Don’t give me verbal directions for anything. I just can’t retain it unless I can create a mental image of it in my mind. I have to “see” it to remember it.
As I accommodated that in homeschooling, my youngest then flourished and her reading/visual finally caught up.
Schools are definitely into learning styles, even though they claim not to be. My youngest, who is very smart, was a bit dyslexic as a child, and what with her troubles reading, she absolutely would have been put into resource classes, with all the stigma attached to that.
Being homeschooled, she didn’t grow up thinking she was stupid because she struggled where her sister and brother didn’t.
Yes and so did Dewey and so did Horace Mann.
Which is not to say that there is not a place.for.sructure, and form to learning. There is a place, especially at lower levels , to say “Memorize This” No, I am not advocating the high pressure, memorize and vomit back curriculum used.in Asian schools.
The other thing we have done is to place too much emphasis upon group work. There is a place for meditative, individual learning.
This article is be
I am proof positive that learning styles do exist-
Anyone who has ever read a tech manual written by tech engineers will know that the way they process info is different than hoe others process info- it’s. It just in the lexicon- no - it’s in the very way it is explained
Learning styles are fact not fiction
This article is bs
I am proof positive that learning styles do exist-
Anyone who has ever read a tech manual written by tech engineers will know that the way they process info is different than how others process info- it’s not just in the lexicon- no - it’s in the very way it is explained
Learning styles are fact not fiction
I home-schooled my 3 children. They all have extremely high IQ's and score high on state exams. My middle child ranked in the top 1% on the Texas STAAR exam.
Approximately 95% of humans are convergent learners; meaning, if you ask them a question, the search their mind for the one correct answer. The other 5% are divergent; the answer becomes the launch point for a series of other questions. Divergent learners are the innovators, scientists, engineers, pioneering doctors, and more, but are often stiffled in a typical classroom environment.
Learning Styles Don’t Actually Exist
Then why are the pushing CRT and other programs.
Give me a child for four years and I will own them for life.
Stalin
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