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Seven Styles of Learning
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| eoffg |
Posted on August 28 2006 06:34 AM
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Seven Styles of Learning
Linguistic Learner
likes to: read, write and tell story.
is good at: memorizing names, places, dates and trivia.
learns best by: saying, hearing and seeing words.
Logical/Mathematical Learner
likes to: do experiments, figure things out, work with numbers, ask questions and explore patterns and relationships.
is good at: math, reasoning, logic and problem solving.
learns best by: categorizing, classifying and working with abstract patterns/relationships.
Spatial Learner
likes to: draw, build, design and create things, daydream, look at pictures/slides, watch movies and play with machines.
is good at: imagining things, sensing changes, mazes/puzzles and reading maps, charts.
learns best by: visualizing, dreaming, using the mind's eye and working with colors/pictures.
Musical Learner
likes to: sing, hum tunes, listen to music, play an instrument and respond to music.
is good at: picking up sounds, remembering melodies, noticing pitches/rhythms and keeping time.
learns best by: rhythm, melody and music.
Bodily/Kinesthetic Learner
likes to: move around, touch and talk and use body language.
is good at: physical activities (sports/dance/acting) and crafts.
learns best by: touching, moving, interacting with space and processing knowledge through bodily sensations.
Interpersonal Learner
likes to: have lots of friends, talk to people and join groups.
is good at: understanding people, leading others, organizing, communicating, manipulating and mediating conflicts.
learns best by: sharing, comparing, relating, cooperating and interviewing.
Intrapersonal Learner
likes to: work alone and pursue own interests.
is good at: understanding self, focusing inward on feelings/dreams, following instincts, pursuing interests/goals and being original.
learns best by: working alone, individualized projects, self-paced instruction and having own space.
adapt from INSTRUCTOR (52), 1990
Go back to "Multiple Intelligences" page.
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| seeta_ji |
Posted on August 28 2006 03:11 PM
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I'm without a doubt a spatial learner
They laugh at me because I'm different...I laugh at them because they're all the SAME!
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| Kyla Dilla |
Posted on August 28 2006 03:57 PM
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Bodily/Kinesthetic Learner, thats me Love sports.. hate being the judge.. can't count.. But just stay cool
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| ert |
Posted on August 31 2006 02:20 AM
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I have no idea what I am. One day I'm the INTERpersonal learner, the next I'm the INTRApersonal.
And some of the stuff in the Linguistic Learner, well that's me, but some aint. Like remembering names - yeah right. But I like to read and write, and I learn by seeing words, and I remember weird stuff. |
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| Bubble |
Posted on August 31 2006 08:01 PM
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I am mostly Intrapersonal. Does that make me a selfish person?
I wonder....
Interesting posts though Geoff, cheers for the information.
bubble
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Be different, it suits you
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| KMG |
Posted on August 31 2006 10:31 PM
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I wouldn't think so - it's just how you learn best. I have 3 sons and from reading the list all three of them learn in a different way.
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| eoffg |
Posted on September 01 2006 12:14 PM
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It is important to know that each of us has all of these seven styles, but one or more will be the dominant one/s. Yet we all use mixtures of them all, for doing different things.
Though, just as we have a dominant Style, we may also have a Style that is particularly weak and under-developed.
Which is precisely what Visual-Spatial Dyscalculia is a result of.
Where maths requires the use of our Visual-Spatial Style of Thinking.
Understanding these different Learning Styles, also provides different ways to approach learning maths. Where Linguistic Thinkers need to be taught maths techniques that involve linguistic thinking, rather than visual-spatial. But it is really up to Linguistic Thinkers to develop their own techniques for learning and working with maths.
Afterall, they are the only ones that really understand it.
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| eoffg |
Posted on September 01 2006 12:33 PM
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As an example of learning maths in a way suited to Linguistic Thinking, I would like to quote Carmine from yesterday:
"You wrote: Also, I'm not even sure she has 'dyscalculia' because she has made it to precalculus and I've been given the impression that people with this disorder are really bad.
That's not necessarily true. I have dyscalculia and I made it through calculus (with a 'C', but that's passing!). I had a friend in the class that has dyslexia. It worked out real well, as I helped her in English and she helped me in math, and she understood that my mind worked differently, since hers did as well. What really helped is that she would read the problem and we would both talk our way through the steps, each problem and the same way each time. We didn't skip any steps or just say, "This one is just like the last one" but would talk our way through each and every step. It also helped on the tests as I could remember her voice talking me through each step.
What also helped is having a problem worked out readily available so that if I forget a step, I could look at the problem that is already worked out (the same type) and see which step I forgot (in the sequence) or forgot how to do (in working the problem)"
Where the key element was: "...would talk our way through each and every step."
Which is a Linguistic Thinkers way of learning calculus.
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| TheatreLvr08 |
Posted on September 08 2006 10:06 PM
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I'm kind of a mix of spatial, musical, and linguistic.
I like to work with my hands and I tend to daydream a lot. I also find that I memorize things better by putting them to a tune. |
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| eoffg |
Posted on September 09 2006 07:01 AM
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Thea, In terms of your year 11 maths, it could help you if you try to learn and think about maths in a 'spatial, musical, linguistic' way of thinking.
Rather than the way that it is taught.
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| sprunghaft |
Posted on September 16 2006 12:14 AM
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This is so interesting, especially the post quoted from Carmen... I also went all the way up through calculus (in college) but it was incredibly painful and tons of work. The hardest part for me was always the sequencing (remembering to do all the steps, and in the right order). I can figure out new problems and apply what I know just fine, once I've figured out the sequencing. BUT... learning the sequencing in the first place has always been SOOOO difficult that i often never make it past.
I never figured out a good way to cope with this problem. I never went about it systematically (like Carmen did, by talking through the steps) - instead, I just attacked it randomly, and forgot everything I had haphazardly learned. I wish I had known then about dyscalculia and different learning styles, because I think that could have saved me a LOT of grief in higher math!  |
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| OneOutofOrderScrooball |
Posted on September 16 2006 02:03 AM
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No way, Bubble anyone could see you as selfish-no matter what learning style you possess. Judging from your past posts you seem empathetic, thoughtful, and caring and if hugs could be felt through this forum I feel you would do so and that in No way is selfish. Geoff, I'm really not certain which learning style I have as I seem to be a bit of several. The only ones I'm absolutely positive I'm not are Logical/mathematical and while I love to draw faces and figures I'm definitely not spatial Musical, no Kinesthetic, no. Is it possible to have no particular style or is it my Attention Deficit Disorder blurring the lines as I find it quite difficult to learn something and recall it later? Sign me, OneOutofOrderScrewball |
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| eoffg |
Posted on September 16 2006 09:28 AM
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Hi Sprunghaft,
You wrote that:"The hardest part for me was always the sequencing (remembering to do all the steps, and in the right order)."
This a common problem for Dyscalculics, yet given that Dyscalculics are generally strong Verbal Thinkers. Then a verbal approach would seem best?
A popular memory technique, is to take a sequence and remember it as a 'word'.
Basically you take 'each Step', and define or label it with a 'word'.
Then you take the 'first letter' of each word, and add them together to create a new word.
So a five step sequence, might end up with 'SPLOG'.
With each letter representing a 'Step'.
So if you remember SPLOG, then you can recall the entire sequence and the correct order.
Also SPLOG gives you a short overview of the sequence.
OOOS, everyone has all of these learning styles, but what varies, is the strength of each one.
A person who has the 'Normal Disability', has a medium strength across all learning styles.
As a result, they have no exceptional strengths with any of them.
So they suffer from 'Normality'.
Yet if a person has a weakness in any of them, this causes a greater reliance on the 'others', and often 'one' in particular.
Which results in that 'one' becoming exceptionally strong.
Which for Dyscalculics, is typically exceptional Verbal Thinking abilities.
Which I would suggest is also your strongest learning style.
In terms of you finding it difficult to learn something and recall it later?
This is where it can be helpful to recognise our strongest learning style, and try to modify our learning to suit style.
Much education is directed at Visual-Spatial Thinking.
With the result that Verbal Thinkers find it difficult to pay Attention, and dont learn what they are being taught, in this Visual-Spatial format.
For Verbal Thinkers to recall what they are learning, it needs to be taught to them in Verbal Thinking format.
Though the deeper question it raises, is whether Dyscalculia is a result of being taught to do maths using the wrong Learning Style?
Which the above discussion of Calculus reflects.
I do sometimes wonder whether Dyscalculics might eventually bring some new insight Mathematics.
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| Countess |
Posted on September 16 2006 03:08 PM
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My daughter is a Spatial/Musical/Linguistic Learner.
Thats what I would say and in this order.
Countess
'You should really be sympathetic to people who suffer 'Normalism' (Geoff)
My Child (born 97) has Dyscalculia
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| Saeria |
Posted on September 21 2006 01:20 PM
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I'm a mix of musical/intrapersonal learner. |
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| Laura |
Posted on December 02 2006 05:59 PM
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I am Musicla and Lingustic and also intrapersonal Learner. Like many of you though i see myself in most of them minus the maths one that so isnt me |
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| KD5NOI |
Posted on December 28 2006 03:28 AM
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im logical Spatial and intrapersonal learner |
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| vermon |
Posted on April 01 2007 11:50 AM
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little bit of spatial, musical and linguistic.
Edited by vermon on April 01 2007 11:52 AM
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| dawn |
Posted on April 08 2007 09:48 PM
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AAchen am kennis te maken- Pleased to make your aquaintance.
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| Saeria |
Posted on April 09 2007 01:45 PM
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I'm mostly intrapersonal, but I guess it fits with me beeing an INFJ according to Jungs personality type index. |
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