Learning Styles
What is Learning?
Learning is in the eye of the beholder, or is it the learner? Or, is it the teacher? These are the questions that any teacher worth their weight in pencils strives to know the answers to. But, to truly understand what learning is, it is important to know how people learn.
It is universally accepted that people learn three ways, visually, auditorially, kinesthetically, or a combination of the three. For example, a student may learn best by listening to a lecture, while reading along in a text, or they may learn a concept successfully by having to manipulate things with their hands, or performing a task.
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Using Technology to Accomodate Multiple Learning Styles
I have always been interested in Multiple Intelligences and am currenty involved in a training offered through our district on that topic. I am also trying to incorportate activities for multiple learning styles into my classroom and curriculum. As such, I have been putting a lot of thought into ways to use technology (in all of it's various forms) to accomodate learning styles that are do not fit nicely into a typical classroom.
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Submitted by Pam Tidwell on Wed, 10/22/2008 - 6:47am
