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Learning Styles

Sydney Rossano

Monica Shuhala

Joshua Paul

Sebastian Leon

Learning: The acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, practice, study, or by being taught.

The problem is there is no easy way learn.

Discovering How You Learn

Learning style: An individual’s natural or habitual pattern of acquiring and processing information in learning situations.

VARK

The Kolb Inventory

The Myers-Briggs Type-Indication

Multiple Intelligences

How can determining your learning style supplement your college success?

V.A.R.K

-measures your preferences for using you senses to learn

Visual: learns information through charts, graphs, symbols, and other

visual means.

Aural: Prefer to hear information

Read/Write: Prefer to learn information that is displayed as

words.

Kinesthetic: Prefer to learn through experience and practice.

-Underline or high light notes-use charts, or graphs to explain concepts

-Talk with others to verify your notes and overall understanding

-Read out loud and ask yourself class

-Rewrite notes-Write study question-Read notes silently

-Use all your senses in learning -Supplement your work with real-world examples

Using V.A.R.K To Study More Effectively

The Kolb Inventory of Learning Styles-1980 David Kolb

-More complex then V.A.R.K

-Focuses on abilities we need to develop in order to learn

Four kinds of abilities

Concrete experience abilities:Learning through feelings and reactions to an experience.

Reflective observation abilities: Learning is influenced from watching and learning.

Abstract conceptualization abilities: Learning through analyzing in a systematic method.

Active experimentation: learning by doing

Kolb’s Four-Stage cycle of

learning Assimilator: you like to think about abstract concepts .Often major in

math , physics or chemistryConverger: you like a world of ideas

and theories and can easily apply them to real like situations. Tend to

choose health related and engineering majors.

Accommodator: you prefer hands-on learning and skilled at making things happen. Often Business or

marketing majors.Diverges: Imagination,

brainstorming and an open mind. Often in liberal arts and social

science.

The Myers-Briggs Type

Indicator-Investigates basic personality characteristics and how those

relate to human interaction and learning

-Isabel Briggs Myers and mother, Katharine Cook Briggs

-measures psychological type as developed in the personality

theory of Carl Gustav Jung

How to use your strongest and

weakest preferences

In result, there are 2 possible choices for each of four

preferences leading to 16 possible psychological types.

For each type it’s important to understand the perks and how

to put each into use while studying.

Sensing Get the facts

Intuitions Get the ideas

Thinking Critically analyze

Feeling Make informed value judgments

Introversions Think it through

Judging Organize and plan

Extraversion Take action

Perceiving Change your plan as needed

Multiple Intelligence -1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner

-Based on the premise that the traditional notion of human intelligence is very limited.

-Proposed 8 different intelligences

Given your learning style how can you manage in a typical classroom setting?

Learning With a Disability

-usually recognized and diagnosed in grade school

-Affect people’s ability to interpret what they see and hear

or the link between different parts of the brain.

-can impede writing, reading, or mathematic skill

-broad range, difficult to pinpoint

-Attention or cognitive disabilities

ADD/ADHD-Attention deficit

(hyperactive)disorder

-Don’t seem to listen or follow directions

-Work appears careless and messy

-Can be improved through medication or organization

practices such as large calendars

Dyslexia-Reading disorder

-difficulty assigning the appropriate sounds and letters

-Trouble relating new ideas and forming memory

If diagnosed with a learning disability, what steps would you take to ensure academic success?

Apply your learning style to your everyday life. Eventually you will learn in a different, smarter and more efficient way.

Work to adjust in a typical classroom with the advice aimed towards your learning style

Don’t give into obstacles such as ADD or Dyslexia. Many others have pushed through it and so can you.