Re: Learning Styles Don't Exist

A clarification of an important point on this learning styles video

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Learning
• Styles

[geniusbychoice]

I was so excited to see this video because I have been saying the same thing to a clearly biased audience. I have been trying to figure out how these ideas became so perpetuated and engrained into the school system. I developed a learning system based on neuroscience, and part of the course talks about the myth of learning styles. I would like to send your video out to my mailing list. Is that okay? I work in this area and I know that for academic information, meaning is everything.

[dbw8m]

this video is available for download on my website, so feel free to forward to anyone you would like. . .

[elegantsolution]

Britain's NHS looked at learning styles for Dr. training and found there were about 100 theories. Many of these theories contradict each other and none are supported by evidence. In fact, most student don't try as hard if they think they are learning in their style. The field of education is filled with such fuzzy warm fads that need to be purged. However, we live in a world where people who don't read and don't know any facts think they are experts.

[dbw8m]

@suifaijohnmak well. . .I don't know about the CCK08, so I guess i would need more details to understand

[suifaijohnmak]

Thanks Daniel for sharing this.  I could understand that Learning Style Theory may sound problematic when used in teaching, if learning is based on meaning, and so the focus should be how one could structure meaningful teaching to facilitate learning. How about learning? I have conducted research with CCK08, a massive open online course, and the results were that there were certain preferences amongst learners with preferences: with some Reflector, Pragmatist, Theorist, Activist - diff. style

[TurKdiRty]

learning is all about making connections with other bits of knowledge. the more connections you can make in one 'hit' / analogy what ever, the higher chance someone will learn it.

the quicker you learn something, the more chance you have of holding interest.

my two penniEs



[kangarc]

@MaskoRightToLearn : What you "found out", if anything, is that your husband and children are better with visual knowledge than with verbal knowledge. That's it, nothing more. Putting aside for a moment the fact that your study sample consisted of only 3-5 people, your "observation" is about content aptitude and has nothing to do with learning style. The false notion of learning styles is about how information is presented, not its actual content.

[kangarc]

@Nulty16 : "Its obvious..."

Sorry, that's not an arguement for LS. The fact remains that LS makes certain testable predictions, and when tested those predictions simply do not come true.