Learning styles and learning tools
Today was the first day of the 4 day process that we are working on with this school district.
The Morning saw Lee present a pair of stunning presentations on Understanding Digital Kids and Living on the Future Edge. Both of these were brilliant. The content was exciting and dynamic. The afternoon was mine.
My focus was looking at Learning styles and then matching this to learning tools. I discussed briefly what I believe are the 4 aspects of a person that contribute (there are more than this) :
- Sensory learning (I use Neil Flemings VARK Model)
- Personality type (Myers-Briggs)
- Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
- Technological learning style – Neo-millennials, digital Natives or Net Gen
The Model I focused on was Fleming’s VARK because it is a manageable tool for the classroom. VARK stands for
- Visual
- Auditory
- Read Write
- Kinaesthetic
However, for me the hardest part of this process was developing this for an Audience that was exclusively Apple. This was fun and there are some great toys for Apples. But its worth noting that there are also a large number of tools that I use on a PC that are also available for the Macs. I take my hat off to the developers of FOSS tools that create both PC and Mac version.
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