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Subject:RE: Can you teach someone how to learn? From:KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 9 Oct 2002 15:28:24 -0400
Hah. I gave that test an honest shot, which resulted in my
leaving 6 of the 12 boxes unchecked. My test result says
that I checked two from each category, so my style is...
wait for it...
visual/auditory/tactile
Well, that helped a lot. <g>
I keep a messy desk, and I've never heard "too quiet"
in a learning environment... at least, not if it's
an individual learning environment. I don't even
want music playing if I have to sit and learn something.
Unrelated conversations next to my cube are a
justification for murder.
But, if there are several people who need to learn the
same thing, then I thrive on the give and take of a group
trying to figure out how something works.
But (I said "but" once already, didn't I?) I learn
best by teaching. When I have to bring somebody else
to a level of understanding, that's when I find out
where the holes are in my own grasp of the situation.
If it starts to not make sense while I'm saying/writing
it... then maybe I need to dig a bit more.
If I can't say/write it in at least two different
ways, then I don't know it well enough, myself.
So, maybe a teaching tool needs to supply a "dummy"
that the student must, in turn, teach the subject.
The dummy would ask questions or just wrinkle its
fictional brow, requiring the student to increase
her/his grasp of the material until s/he could
present it to the built-in dummy ... thereby learning
the material in some depth.
> I took a graduate course in Instructional Design a few years
> back. At the
> beginning of the class, we took the Learning Styles Inventory
> survey to
> learn what our learning styles were. By studying the learning
> styles, in
> theory, one could present information in a way that makes it
> possible for
> all types of learners to learn the information.
> You can take a simplified version of the Learning Styles
> Inventory at this
> site: http://www.merexcorp.com/ls.htm. It also includes some
> high-level
> information about interpreting the results to understand how
> people with a
> certain profile learn.
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