"Learning style" is big. In the old days, 'learners' were 'students' or even 'pupils' and they didn't have learning styles: they were either functional or faulty.
Learning styles are a way to help improve your quality of learning. By understanding your own personal styles, you can adapt the learning process and techniques you use.
Once again, because I found the material logical and easy to
understand, it never occurred to me to question the validity of the
theories or the research. I embraced it enthusiastically, to the extent
that I developed a resource for my students at the IT learning centre,
by means of which they could identify their own learning style and
adopt some tactics that would enable them to maximise their learning
experience at the centre... Read more >>
Used for decades to describe the parallel processing abilities of
computers, multitasking is now shorthand for the human attempt to do
simultaneously as many things as possible, as quickly as possible,
preferably marshalling the power of as many technologies as possible... Read more >>
It is important to vary the activities in your lessons so that you cater for students with different learning styles. The following lesson-planning framework can help you do this.
