domingo, 20 de julio de 2008

Learning Styles

When talking about students we need to take into consideration that they all learn in different ways, some of them learn better if they listen to something or some others if they see something. These different ways of learning are called " learning styles".
In this aspect teachers can not really influenciate students, since it has to do with their biological aspects, their genetic aspect.
To understand and classify the learning styles I will give you some charachteristics that some students have:
Those learners who are more concrete-sequential are the ones who check the headings and sub-headings in a text to get an idea of the organization of it. And they get frustrated when they can not find literal answers on the texts.
A student who is more abstract- intuitive skips around the text looking for key words but without a pattern ( actually I think this is my learning style) they also take more clues from the text and when learning they tend to rely on their own experiences in order to learn in a better way.
The global and synthesizing learners my enjoy a summarization task in order to integrate details.

Learners do not only use one of the styles just mentioned, they use or we use one or more depending on the task.

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