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Learning Styles 2

This document discusses different learning styles - visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic. It provides descriptions of each style and study tips tailored for each. The purpose is to help students identify their own dominant learning style and utilize effective study strategies based on their preferences. Understanding learning styles can improve learning speed and retention by allowing students to engage their strengths. The document encourages students to try various approaches to accommodate their multimodal nature.

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Learning Styles 2

This document discusses different learning styles - visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic. It provides descriptions of each style and study tips tailored for each. The purpose is to help students identify their own dominant learning style and utilize effective study strategies based on their preferences. Understanding learning styles can improve learning speed and retention by allowing students to engage their strengths. The document encourages students to try various approaches to accommodate their multimodal nature.

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Study Skills III: Learning

style preferences and


strategies
Hannah Morris
• What are the different learning styles?
• Why are they important?
• What is YOUR learning style?
• Study tips:
Session • Visual
• Auditory
schedule • Tactile
• Reading/writing
• Summary
• Conclusion
What are the different
learning styles?
• Visual Learners: Associates information with
an image or diagram.
• Auditory Learners: Preference for listening to
information rather than reading or seeing it
displayed.
• Reading and Writing Learners: Interacts with
written text in comparison to images.
• Kinesthetic Learners: ‘hands on’ learners -
practising and doing.

• Multimodal learners: Using multiple styles


Others
• Visual (spatial): Preference for using pictures, images, and spatial
understanding.
• Aural (auditory-musical): Preference for using sound.
• Verbal (linguistic): Preference for using words.
• Physical (kinesthetic): Preference for using your body, hands and
sense of touch.
• Logical (mathematical): Preference for Logic, reasoning and systems.
• Social (interpersonal): Preference to learn in groups or with other
people.
• Solitary (intrapersonal): Preference to work alone.
Why is important to know the
different learning styles?
• Use techniques better suited to you.
• Improves the speed and quality of learning.
• Guides the way you learn
• Change the way you internally represent experiences
(e.g. as images/sounds/motions)
• Each learning style uses different parts of the brain.
Involving more of the brain, we remember more of
what we learn.
• Be open about all learning styles, even if you dont feel
they are for you.
What’s YOUR learning style?
Visual learners Auditory learners
• Notes are covered with drawings • Easily distracted by noises
• Good with remembering faces but not names • Difficulty working quietly for long periods of
• Good at spelling time
• Rather read a story than listen to it • Good listener
• Easily remember what others say
• Good with maps and directions
• Creative. Enjoys creating artwork or writing • Likes to read to self out loud.
stories. • Is not afraid to speak in class.
• Comes up with their best ideas during quiet • Likes oral reports.
time.
• Is good at explaining.
• Learn best when using graphical ways to • Remembers names.
represent what they are studying.
• May have to think for a bit to process a • Notices sound effects in movies.
speech or lecture.
• Create strong pictures in their minds when
they read.
What’s YOUR learning style?
Tactile learners Reading & writing learners
• Excel at sports, art or drama • Love making lists
• Enjoy building, making or creating • Enjoy reading and writing
• Have trouble sitting still • Prefer to have written directions
• Fiddles with objects while thinking
• Can't sit still for long
• Good with their hands.
• Good at remembering things they’ve actually
done before
• Enjoy active learning - process information
while being physically active or engaged.
• Not always suited to the traditional
classroom.
• Don’t usually take notes
Visual: How do they
learn best?
• Need to see information to learn it
• Closes eyes to envision the knowledge
• Brings up mental imagery when you're trying to
remember something
• Remembers the cover of books they have read
• Can take many forms: spatial awareness,
photographic memory, colour/tone,
brightness/contrast and other visual information.
• Overheads, chalk/white board, pictures, graphs,
maps other visual items help a visual learner to
learn more effectively
Visual: Study tips
• Take notes
• Review and revise notes
• Create a presentation
• Redraw your pages from memory
• Take notice of the visual layout of your
notes
• Close your eyes and try to visualise your
notes and diagrams
• Organise your notes
Visual: Study tips
• Study in solitude
• Make study area visually appealing
• Diagram/symbols sentences
• Watch videos
• Colour code
• Highlighters, circle words, underline.
• Flashcards
• Incorporate white space
• Outlines and concept maps/mind map to organize your notes -
visual representation of your thoughts - helps make connections
between concepts
Auditory: How do
they learn best?
• Discussions, debates, and talking to others.
• Oral presentations
• Read more slowly.
• Storytelling
• Do not necessarily need to take notes as
they are able to take in what they need
simply by listening intently.
• Difficulty interpreting complicated graphs,
maps or diagrams
Auditory: Study tips
• Record your summarized notes and listen to them on tape.
• Talk it out. Have a discussion with others to expand upon your
understanding of a topic.
• Reread your notes/assignments out loud.
• Explain your notes to your peers/family.
• Teach what you learn
• Use Word Association - Mnemonic devices, such as rhymes
• Study in quiet space
Kinesthetic: How do
they learn best?
• Lab experiments
• Projects
• Real life examples
• Doing something physical whilst studying
Kinesthetic: Study tips

• Use real life examples, applications and case


studies
• Redo lab experiments or projects.
• Utilize pictures and photographs that illustrate
your idea.
• Create Flow Charts - structure your notes
• Combine an activity with studying – walk whilst
listening to a lecture
• Keep your fingers busy while studying – rewrite
your notes, trace over them, use your sense of
touch.
Kinesthetic: Study tips

• Stimulate taste whilst studying using gum - different


flavoured gum for each subject.
• Instead of drawing arrows on paper to make connections,
use separate pieces of paper which you can move around.
• Use a large exercise ball instead of a chair while studying
• Take frequent short study breaks to keep from being
stagnate while you study
• Draw pictures that help you remember the material.
• Make a note of the environment in which you learned it--
sight, sound, smells, taste, and, of course, touch to
associate your senses with the topic of study
• Approach the topic from another angle. Use materials you
can manipulate, like blocks, pencils..etc...
Reading/writing: How do they learn best?
• Traditional classroom.
• Taking notes during class.
• Reading over notes and/or
copying them out.
• Work best in quiet areas.
• Prefer to study alone
• Making lists
• Prefers written directions
Reading/Writing:
Study tips
• Rewrite notes in your own words over and
over again
• Reword main ideas and principles to gain a
deeper understanding.
• Review your class notes
• Translate visual information into
statements.
• Use bullet point lists.
• Subheadings
Example: Directions to the bus station
• Visual learner: picture of map • Tactile learner: actually
practising the route, or tracing it
with their finger on the map

• Read/write learner:
• Continue forward to the first
roundabout/traffic circle
• Take the third exit (if you live in a
country where it is righthand
drive!)
• It’s the second building on your
• Auditory learner: spoken left
directions
Example: Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• Visual learner: image and pictures • Tactile learner: using building blocks.

• Read/write learner:
• self actualisation: all needs met
• Self esteem: approval
• Auditory learner: describe it or make a • Belonging: friends and family
mnemonic out of the first letters (Silly • Safety: shelter
Esa Buys Silly Pencils) • Physiological: food, drink
Summary
• Visual
• Auditory
• Reading/writing
• Kinesthetic

• Multimodal
Conclusion
• Understanding learning styles helps us to work more effectively

• Different styles are used by different people at different times for


different tasks

• Try different approaches.

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