Learning Styles

LEARNING STYLES
General predisposition of processing
information in a particular way

VISUAL AND AUDITORY

Preference that learners show toward either visual or auditory imput.
Most successfulleasners utilize both, visual and auditory input, but only the slight preferences may distinguish one learner from another.

* VISUAL: Prefer reading and studying charts, drawings, and othergraphic information

* AUDITORY: Prefer listening to lectures and audiotapes.
REFLECTIVITY AND IMPULSIVITY (R/I)

Two styles that are closely related.

* REFLECTIVITY: Systematic thinkerstend to weigh all the considerations in a problem. Fewer errors in reading, inductive, reflective, slower, need patience from the teacher.

* IMPULSIVITY: Intuitive, based on “hunches”, impulsivepersons are usually faster readers and accurate learners. May go through a number of rapid transitions of semi grammatical stages.
AMBIGUITY TOLERANCE

Cognitively willing to tolerate ideas andpropositions tat run counter to your own belief system or structure of knowledge (Open-minded).

* TOLERANCE: Free to entertain a number of innovative and creative possibilities and not to becognitively or affectively disturbed by ambiguity and uncertainty.

* INTOLERANCE: Close off avenues of hopeless possibilities, reject entirely contradictory material, deal with the reality of a systemthat one has built.--->can result on a rigid, dogmatic, brittle mind too narrow to be creative.
LEFT AND RIGHT-BRAIN FUNCTIONING

As the child’s brain matures, various functions becomelateralized. Parallel to the FI/D style.

* LEFT: Logical, analytical, mathematical and linear information.
Better at producing separate words, classification, labelling, reorganization.FI
* RIGHT:visual, tactile, auditory images. Whole images, generalizations, metaphors, emotional reactions and artistic expressions.

FIELD INDEPENDENCE (FI/D)

* FI: ability to perceive a particular,...