Comments on: Learning Styles http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/16/learning-styles/ Technology is neither the problem nor the solution. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 07:51:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Latisha Howard http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/16/learning-styles/#comment-11267 Latisha Howard Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:10:44 +0000 http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/16/learning-styles/#comment-11267 Wow! Learning styles a superstition. That is interesting, but you are right we have always been preached to about learning styles, but I have never seen any research on it. Wow! Learning styles a superstition. That is interesting, but you are right we have always been preached to about learning styles, but I have never seen any research on it.

]]> By: phaedrus » Blog Archive » Learning Styles, Again. http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/16/learning-styles/#comment-11244 phaedrus » Blog Archive » Learning Styles, Again. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:18:33 +0000 http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/16/learning-styles/#comment-11244 [...] As I was reviewing some closed discussions on the 688 discussion board, the Learning Styles construct keeps coming up. I’ve written about this in length here, and the link to the most comprehensive refutation is listed in this artile: Several of you have referred to “learning styles” in some of your posts and comments. I know it’s fashionable, but it’s also not supported by any credible scientific evidence. It’s intuitively appealing but it appears to be superstition. For a critique of the extant literature on this see: Learning Styles. [...] [...] As I was reviewing some closed discussions on the 688 discussion board, the Learning Styles construct keeps coming up. I’ve written about this in length here, and the link to the most comprehensive refutation is listed in this artile: Several of you have referred to “learning styles” in some of your posts and comments. I know it’s fashionable, but it’s also not supported by any credible scientific evidence. It’s intuitively appealing but it appears to be superstition. For a critique of the extant literature on this see: Learning Styles. [...]

]]> By: lowell http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/16/learning-styles/#comment-5692 lowell Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:57:17 +0000 http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/16/learning-styles/#comment-5692 I question everything. The problem is that too much of what we do in the classroom is based on "the way we've always done it" and the whole "Learning Styles" thing is one of those pop-psychology phenoms that has yet to be supported by anything approaching a credible study. There are a lot of people who believe -- but belief isn't proof, and belief in the absence of evidence is superstition. What else could you call it? I question everything. The problem is that too much of what we do in the classroom is based on “the way we’ve always done it” and the whole “Learning Styles” thing is one of those pop-psychology phenoms that has yet to be supported by anything approaching a credible study.

There are a lot of people who believe — but belief isn’t proof, and belief in the absence of evidence is superstition. What else could you call it?

]]> By: Roxanne Johnson http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/16/learning-styles/#comment-5687 Roxanne Johnson Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:20:06 +0000 http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/16/learning-styles/#comment-5687 I can't believe you said that learning styles are superstition!! You are so irreverent! I'm not disagreeing with you, but I have never heard anyone question learning styles before. I am eager to read the review. I can’t believe you said that learning styles are superstition!! You are so irreverent! I’m not disagreeing with you, but I have never heard anyone question learning styles before. I am eager to read the review.

]]> By: Jeff http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/16/learning-styles/#comment-5632 Jeff Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:28:51 +0000 http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/09/16/learning-styles/#comment-5632 That's an interesting point of view. Seems the last 10 or so years that's all we've heard in the public schools...addressing different learning styles. I think this has been so unclear for many people that they assume learning style and multiple intelligences mean the same thing. This will make intersting reading to pursue further. That’s an interesting point of view. Seems the last 10 or so years that’s all we’ve heard in the public schools…addressing different learning styles. I think this has been so unclear for many people that they assume learning style and multiple intelligences mean the same thing. This will make intersting reading to pursue further.

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