[Olpc-open] [IAEP] an interesting article on an article on learning styles...

[Bill Kerr]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> Almost certainly, you were told that your instruction should match your
> students' styles. For example, kinesthetic learners—students who learn best
> through hands-on activities—are said to do better in classes that feature
> plenty of experiments, while verbal learners are said to do worse.
> Now four psychologists argue that you were told wrong. There is no strong
> scientific evidence to support the "matching" idea, they contend in a paper
> published this week<http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/index.cfm?journal=pspi&content=pspi/9_3>in
> *Psychological Science in the Public Interest. *And there is absolutely no
> reason for professors to adopt it in the classroom.
>
> http://chronicle.com/article/Matching-Teaching-Style-to/49497/



for those with a more visual learning style ;-) there is a Dan Willingham
video about this: Learning styles don't exist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=AU&hl=en-GB&v=sIv9rz2NTUk

Also Dan's book is a very good read about learning ideas:
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/11/dan-willinghams-book.html



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> cheers,
> Sameer
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