#115, Learner
If you learn one thing in your life, learn how you learn. Knowing how you learn opens up endless possibilities and is a skill you will use the rest of your life. Each of us learns in different ways and in class this week we shared some of our unique techniques. Some prefer to speak quietly to themselves to help them understand and memorize ideas. Some prefer to re-write ideas in their own words to make them more meaningful.
We also discussed three types of learners: visual learners, auditory learners, and kinesthetic learners. Most of us are a mix of two or three, but we tend to fall in one category more than others. Each learner type has its own characteristics,
- Visual learners: tend to be fast talkers, may interrupt, learn by seeing charts and diagrams, need quiet study time, may think in pictures, take detailed notes
- Auditory learners: tend to speak slowly, explain things well, tend to be natural listeners, tend to repeat things aloud, think linearly, read slowly, prefer to hear rather than read, information
- Kinesthetic learners: tend to be the slowest talkers, learn by doing and solving real-life problems, like hands-on approaches, can't sit still for long, get fidgety, take breaks when studying, suffer from short attention spans
To complete this week's Journal response,
- Describe one way you learn (not the type of learner you are) and add an example to illustrate.
- Comment on one of your peer's responses.
EDIT: The visual for this post never did seem right. After reading through the comments, I updated the visual to reflect the spirit of some of the responses.
-Brenden Lee Teacher
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