learning styles & academic theory (learning styles don't exist)
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This is a lecture I gave on Learning Styles and other Academic Theory for our Business School Students. It contains videos which probably won't work on this format but I've included the links. Most of the 'content' is in the notes section on each slide - I spoke it. Students were given a Twitter #tag to use during the lecture to reply to the questions posed and these where displayed on a twitter wall. There were also links to Excel files containing questionnaires that the students were encouraged to try after the session.TRANSCRIPT
Learning Styles and Academic
TheoryBy Jacqui Bartram
How much do you think
about HOW you learn?
What are Learning Styles?
The Theory: Everybody has a
preferred style of learning
Knowing and understanding your learning style can
help you learn more effectively
There are TOO MANY learning styles models to
coverDunn and Dunn
(VAK)Gregorc
Riding
Apter
Jackson
Myers-Briggs
Allinson and Hayes
HerrmannHoney and Mumford
Kolb
EntwistleVermunt
GardnerWhetton and Cameron
KoganSchmeck
Hill
Harrison-Branson
Kagan
Conti and Kolody
Hermanussen et al
McKenney and Keen
Marton and Säljö
Grasha-Riechmann
Weinstein et al
Pask
Guilford
Marks
Torrence
Miller
Bartlett
Gordon
Broverman
Cooper
Richardson
Betts
SheehanMessick
Kogan
Kaufmann
HuntWitkin
Holzman and Klein Hudson
Felder and Silverman
Richardson
Epstein and MeierBiggsPettigrew
Reading/writing
Visual
AK
uditory
inaesthetic
Tactile
VAK based learning
styles are about
sensory input and
types of memory
Excel
Honey and Mumford’s Learning style is about approaches to learning
Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cf-1zx58CU
There is only one problem...
Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIv9rz2NTUk
Do YOU think Learning Styles
exist or not?
Not all Learning Styles are so easily
killed offEntwistle’s Approaches to Study Skills Inventory (ASSIST)Vermunt’s Inventory of Learning Styles (ILS)
Entwistle’s model focuses on level of engagement or
depth of processing
Apathetic
Deep Surface
Strategic
Vermunt’s ILS looks at a student’s information
processing styleProcessing strategies
Regulation strategies
Mental models of learning
Learning orientatio
ns
From this, Vermunt describes
4 types of learning styleUndirected
Reproduction directed
Application directed
Meaning directed
What is YOUR motivation for
learning?
Other Academic
Theory
Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences influences many
learning styles models
Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf6lqfNTmaM
Linguisti
c
InterpersonalIntrapersonal
Spatial-visualBodily-kinaesthetic
MusicalLogical-mathematical
Recap of the multiple intelligences:
Excel
Other theorists took the idea of
Interpersonal and Intrapersonal
intelligence and called it
emotional intelligence
Goleman’s modelSelf-awareness(recognise own
emotions and act accordingly)
Social awareness(empathy,
understanding of social networks)
Relationship management
(ability to influence others and manage
conflict)
Self-management(ability to inspire, influence others
and manage conflict)
Constructivism is a learning theory which states that
people construct their own knowledge
Reflection is the ability to look back and analyse your experiences and realise what lessons can be learned for the future
Do you think that learning about learning
helps you become a BETTER learner?
Metacognition
(thinking about thinking)
If you are thinking about any of this
academic theory then you are using