Carmela picked up on the Learning Styles debate from OLDaily in her recent post and that made me think that it’s probably time to wheel out the Top Five Myths post. I’m not sure what it says that we’re going down this road so early in the class (Note the text in the reference) but perhaps it just means I’m more aware of it.
How many of these myths have we already run into in this class?
August 29th, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Okay – as a parent we want to shelter our children, but the internet is not the “evil” one. Parents not talking to their children and what is happening in their child’s life is the issue. I learn visually,
, I see something with my eyes, in fact I am reading this right now, learning through what I am seeing. I just proved I learn visually. Hehe…..moving on, I have NEVER thought that boys learn better at anything. I think gender has little to do with what a person is capable of learning or what they aren’t. If you want to learn something and you put the effort into it, you will learn it. Same thing goes for older people. I want to succeed in my classes, I will do the assigned work and more. I want to be better at what I do than what I was before. My goal is to be better than what I thought I could be, average is for people that are content with what life “gives” them. I want more than that. So…..to answer the question….I think we have run into most of these myths throughout life, not just in the classroom. If a person chooses to believe them…they need to open their eyes and visually learn that everything is not as it seems……:)
August 29th, 2008 at 3:29 PM
Cute.
Actually, if I understand this right, “visual learners” learn by “seeing” .. reading doesn’t really count. You need to be seeing the subject matter. It makes it a little difficult to learn about … oh .. say … Truth. But then auditory learners have a hard time learning about rainbows, too.
The problems, of course, have to do with encoding the messages and which messages get encoded. And *that* is why the notion of Learning Styles is a problem.