LEARNING STYLES Flashcards
The habitual manner in which learners receive and perceive information, process it, understand it, value it, store it, and recall it.
Learning Styles/ Cognitive Styles
The way a person processes, internalizes studies, interprets, and changes new and challenging materials
Learner’s process in processing info
Learning Styles/ Cognitive Styles
(Learning style: practical application
Cognitive style: thinking, remembering, acquired knowledge, how you understand the learning that was introduced)
Combination can predict the strategies that is effective to the individual in the learning task you do
Learning Style Models
Memletic
Dunn and Dunn
Kolb’s
Learning Style Models:
Recognizes that each learners prefers to learn in different ways
Mix/ combination of learning styles
Memletic Learning Style
(Acknowledge the ideas that learners may find dominant style of learning
Accepts the fact that there is no right mix or fix style when it comes to learning
Diff learning styles and techniques)
Memletic Learning Style:
Spatial
Prefers using pictures, images, graphs, charts, logic puzzles, and spatial understanding
Visual
Occipital lobes and parietal lobes
Memletic Learning Style:
Auditory-Musical
Prefers using sound and music
Aural
Right Temporal lobe (music)
Memletic Learning Style:
Linguistic
Prefers using words, both in speech and in writing
Verbal
Temporal and frontal lobes
Memletic Learning Style:
Kinesthetic
-movements
Prefers using body, hands, and sense of touch
Physical
Cerebellum and motor cortex
Memletic Learning Style:
Mathematical
Prefers using logic, reasoning, and systems
Logical
Left parietal lobes
Memletic Learning Style:
Interpersonal
Prefers to learn in groups or with other people
Social
Frontal, temporal lobes & limbic system
Memletic Learning Style:
Intrapersonal
Prefers to work alone and use self-study
Solitary
Frontal, temporal lobes & limbic system
Learning Style Models:
Goal - reach long term learning, retain, remember info and use it in the future
Adaptation of other learning styles is a good thing
Memletic Learning Style
Learning Style Models:
Most people can learn, and each individual has his own unique ways of mastering new and difficult subject matter.
Dunn and Dunn Learning Style: 1975
(Kenneth and RIta Dunn, researched it for 20 years
Focuses on 5 stimuli
Need to match indiv learning style w/ instructional methodologies)
5 Stimuli and their Elements (Dunn and Dunn):
Immediate instructional environment, learning area that is suitable for them
Physical setup of the learning area/ instructional environment
Environmental
Sound
Light
Tempt
Seating design
5 Stimuli and their Elements (Dunn and Dunn):
Depends on the students’ motivation, what motivates you in doing that learning styles
Different from procrastination
Emotional
Motivation
Conformity/ responsibility
Task persistence
Structure
5 Stimuli and their Elements (Dunn and Dunn):
Impacts social preferences of learning environment
Sociological
Alone Pain Peer Group Authority Variety
5 Stimuli and their Elements (Dunn and Dunn):
How they physically engage in the learning environment
Same as Memletics’ learning styles
Physiological
Perceptual elements: auditory, visual, tactful, kinesthetic
Intake
Time of day: most effective
Mobility
5 Stimuli and their Elements (Dunn and Dunn):
How learner process and respond to info, how they use ideas and related to psychological influences
Psychological
Analytic/ Detail Oriented: bright lighting, formal seating
Global: work w/ soft lighting, informal seating
Impulsive
Reflective: learning is a more conscious process, asking questions
Learning Style Models:
Depicts learning as 4 stage cycle beginning with an intermediate concrete experience during which the person makes observations and reflections
Then the person develops an abstract theory from which he or she develops ideas on how to proceed.
Kolb’s Learning Style: David Kolb
Finally, the person actively experiments with actions to test them out
Preferred way to absorb, retain info
How a person make sense of new material base on strength and weaknesses
Learning Style Models:
Employs strategies and abilities
How your brain works best
Effective learning is achieved if 4 cycle stages are completed
Kolb’s Learning Style: David Kolb
4-Stage Learning Cycle of Kolb's Learning Style: CE RO AC AE
Concrete Experience
Reflective observation
Abstract conceptualization
Active experimentation
Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory
_______ continuum: how we approach a task
4 cycle stages
_______continuum: entails emotional response, how we feel about an idea in order for us to learn
practical learners
Processing
Perception
4 Abilities Learners need to be Effective (Processing continuum):
Learning from actual experience
Engages/ involve in activity
Key to learning: involvement in the activity
Concrete Experience Abilities (CE)
Not enough to just read or watch an action
Fully understand: participate in the task
4 Abilities Learners need to be Effective (Processing continuum):
Learning by observing others
Allows learner to ask questions
Reflective Observation abilities (RO)
Reflective observation of the experience
