<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Sameer Verma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p>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.</p>
Now four psychologists argue that you were told wrong. There is no strong scientific evidence to support the "matching" idea, they contend in a <a href="http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/index.cfm?journal=pspi&content=pspi/9_3" target="_blank">paper published this week</a> in <em>Psychological Science in the Public Interest. </em>And there is absolutely no reason for professors to adopt it in the classroom.<br>
<br><a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Matching-Teaching-Style-to/49497/" target="_blank">http://chronicle.com/article/Matching-Teaching-Style-to/49497/</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>for those with a more visual learning style ;-) there is a Dan Willingham video about this: Learning styles don't exist</div>
<div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=AU&hl=en-GB&v=sIv9rz2NTUk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=AU&hl=en-GB&v=sIv9rz2NTUk</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also Dan's book is a very good read about learning ideas:</div>
<div><a href="http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/11/dan-willinghams-book.html">http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/11/dan-willinghams-book.html</a></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br clear="all"><br>cheers,<br>Sameer<br><font color="#888888">-- <br>Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor, Information Systems<br>
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