How we approach the world is how we approach learning. That is,
we use the same dominant accessing tools and skills when learning something
new as we use in our waking hours. These accessing tools are called learning
styles, manners which we use one or more of, usually in combination and overlapping:
ACTIVE LEARNING STYLE
“Just do it!” is a signature phrase for active learning styles.
Active learners—formerly dubbed kinesthetic learners--get better mileage
from material, instruction, and information when they can move, participate,
act, do, be a part of the experience.
AUDITORY LEARNING STYLE
While this learning style has been reconsidered/updated to fit in other learning
categories, those who learn best by listening (to lectures, music, discussions)
will remember words and sounds over, say, pictures and diagrams.
GLOBAL LEARNING STYLE
Global learning styles are those in which the learner finds understanding in
studying the whole and coming up with the specific, rather than studying the
details and putting them together to come up with the whole. Often mistaken
as a style we all have, the global learning style is the type owned by and operated
by those who jump about the material/problem seemingly haphazardly, then landing
on the “answer”, seemingly all of a sudden.
SEQUENTIAL LEARNING STYLE
As the term suggests, sequential learners absorb best by seeing/finding the
sequence of something, by ordering the pieces or steps into a logical, linear
and therefore manageable solution, answer, or result.
VERBAL LEARNING STYLE
Verbal learners are people who use and access information best by words, spoken
or written. Still the predominant method used in the classroom, verbal
text is actually not as effective in isolation in an environment where a majority
are still more visual than verbal.
VISUAL LEARNING STYLE
Visual learning styles are those using sight and seeing to access, absorb, retain,
and use information. Pictures, maps, diagrams, and charts, for example,
are the tools that best guide visual learners.
Not described here but just as extant are the INTUITIVE LEARNING STYLE, the
REFLECTIVE LEARNING STYLE, and the SENSING LEARNING STYLE—which are based
in the head and/or the senses and used by learners who are more adept at and
accustomed to theory, ideas, and making connections between those theories and
ideas. What connections did you make reading this verbally oriented material?
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