Learning Styles: One Piece of the PUZZLE To Optimal Learning

7 | 2 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. LEARNING STYLES WHY BOTHER?

7 | 3 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Learning something in new and difficult in the way your brain prefers it Saves you time. The information becomes personal knowledge quicker. Learning about learning styles reminds you of other options for making connections.

7 | 4 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Learning “How to Learn” It is an Important Piece in

7 | 5 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Learners need a sense of control over their learning. When a learner feels in control, the cortex is fully functional and higher level meaningful learning is possible creativity, analysis, synthesis, planning, and problem solving When a learner feels he is not in control, these parts of the brain shut down and the only learning possible is rote memorization or simple learning based on habit or instinct. Caine and Caine(1991)

7 | 6 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. When students are required to think critically... know what questions to ask... know strategies for processing information... know the goal or objective of a lesson... know how they learn best... Control shifts from instructor to LEARNER

7 | 7 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Remember Jensen's Equation for Optimal Learning Meaning (connecting experience, data and stimuli to form conclusions and create patterns that give our lives meaning) Present Circumstances (environment, feelings, people, context, goals, moods) Personal History (beliefs, experiences, values, knowledge)

7 | 8 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. We addressed these three with some memory principles Meaning Interest Present Circumstances Intent to Remember History Basic Background

7 | 9 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. The next three deal with learning style preferences Input (5 senses) (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, or gustatory) Processing (learning preference) (states, left/right hemisphere, abstract or concrete) Responses (7 intelligences) (verbal-linguistic, spatial, bodily kinesthetic, musical-rhythmic, mathematical-logical, intrapersonal, interpersonal)

7 | 10 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Eric Jenson. Super Teaching. San Diego. The Brain Store, Inc., 1998 On line

7 | 11 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Approaches To LEARNING STYLES Necessary for Optimal Learning Sensory Modes Input Hemispheric Dominance Process Multiple Intelligence Response

7 | 12 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Begin to learn something NEW or DIFFICULT in your Strength.

7 | 13 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Reinforce it in as many ways possible.

7 | 14 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Input Preference in Receiving Information

7 | 15 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. SENSORY MODES AUDITORY

7 | 16 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. SENSORY MODES VISUAL

7 | 17 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. SENSORY MODES KINESTHETIC

7 | 18 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Mixed Modality Most of us use a combination of these three.

7 | 19 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. A fire breaks out in a room Your IMMEDIATE, FIRST reaction Auditory Auditory-- start yelling “Fire” or giving directions or screaming. Visual Visual --quickly you size up the situation, looking for exits, other is need, etc. Kinesthetic Kinesthetic start running for the exits or grabbing other to help them out. While you may do all 3, one will be an instinctual first reaction.

7 | 20 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. We actually have five senses We could include Olfactory(smell) and Gustatory(taste) But visual, auditory and kinesthetic are used most for semantic memory

7 | 21 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. AUDITORY Use their voices and their ears as the primary mode of learning. You remember what you hear and what you say yourself. You want to talk about something difficult. You love class discussion. listen carefully in class tape record-both classes and notes for review and practice tests discuss material with another student or instructor

7 | 22 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Visual Want to actually see the words written down, a picture of something being described, a time line to remember events in history, or the assignment written on the board. Probably you organize your materials. You appreciate being able to follow with an overhead transparency or handout. Review and study material by reading and organizing-- maybe even recopying. Using mapping techniques and mental videos

7 | 23 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Kinesthetic Prefer and actually learn better when they touch and are physically involved in what they are studying. Act out a situation, do a project and in general be busy with your learning. You may take lots of notes and never re-read them! Make copious notes Use computer Use Label in Margin System Make flashcards Mapping Make summary sheets Take sample tests Pace/Dance/Cheer Make models

7 | 24 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Begin to learn something NEW or DIFFICULT in your Strength.

7 | 25 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Reinforce it in as many ways possible.

7 | 26 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Teach someone else Do a site visit Do a dramatic presentation Simulate a real experience Do the real thing Watch Still Picture Watch moving picture Watch exhibit Watch demonstration Read Hear Words Levels of Abstraction People Generally Remember 10% of what they read 20% of what they hear 30% of what they see 50% of what they hear and see 70% of what they say or write 90% of what they say as they do a thing 95% of what they teach Someone else Verbal receiving Visual receiving Hearing, Saying, Seeing and Doing DALE’S CONE OF EXPERIENCE 1969

7 | 27 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Processing Preference Link to on-line inventory

7 | 28 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. One Brain-Two Sides Right and Left Work Together for Most Activity But, Process Information in Very Different Ways Most People Have a Dominant Side When Something is New, Difficult or Unfamiliar, we automatically go to dominant side No one Is Totally Left or Totally Right Brained You Can and Must Develop Both Sides of the Brain

7 | 29 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Most ACADEMIC information is geared to the left side of the brainLEFT Handwriting Symbols Reading Phonics Locating Details/Facts Talking/Reciting Listening Following DirectionsRIGHT Spatial Relationships Perception Shapes and Patterns Color Sensitivity Singing and Music CreativityVisualization Feeling and Emotion

7 | 30 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Left BrainRight Brain LinearHolistic

7 | 31 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. The paomnnehil pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

7 | 32 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Textbook Strategies Right Brained Learners To get WHOLE picture Survey first Read questions at end Read summary at end Finally read

7 | 33 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Left BrainRight Brain LinearHolistic SymbolicConcrete SequentialRandom

7 | 34 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Sequence/Animals Lion Turtle Eagle Donkey Shark Butterfly Rabbit Elephant Cat

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7 | 36 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Particularly SPELLING huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe Despite this pehonemna, SEQUENCE IS NECESSARY !

7 | 37 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Left BrainRight Brain LogicalIntuitive Verbal Non-verbal

7 | 38 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Left BrainRight Brain Reality Fantasy Based Oriented Temporal Non- Temporal »

7 | 39 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Left Brain Right Brain LINEARSYMBOLICSEQUENTIALLOGICALVERBAL REALITY BASED TEMPORAL HOLISTICCONCRETERANDOMINTUITIVENONVERBAL FANTASY ORIENTED NON-TEMPORAL

7 | 40 Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Right Side Let’s Use the Right Side of the Brain

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