#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. Others prefer to type their work and organize it using your personal design.
Learners can be divided up into three categories: 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 Journal response,
- Describe one way you learn effectively. Add an example to illustrate. Do not describe which of the three types of learners you are.
- Comment on one of your peer's responses.
-Brenden Lee Teacher
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