Despite Veritasium’s latest video, I still believe I am a “Practical learner”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA&ab_channel=Veritasium

learning styles are a stubborn myth

SCIENCE said:

learning styles are a stubborn myth

It may very well be that for the bulk of learners, the teaching style is an irrelevant preference. I suspect I am in the “Learning difficulty” camp (probably a memory thing) and it was only after I failed high school and got hands-on was I able to excell academically.

Dark Orange said:

SCIENCE said:

learning styles are a stubborn myth

It may very well be that for the bulk of learners, the teaching style is an irrelevant preference. I suspect I am in the “Learning difficulty” camp (probably a memory thing) and it was only after I failed high school and got hands-on was I able to excell academically.

I don’t recall reading much about learning styles at all, so I’m not exactly an expert on the subject, but just from my own experience I would say that dismissing the entire concept as a myth seems to be going a bit far.

Dark Orange said:

Despite Veritasium’s latest video, I still believe I am a “Practical learner”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA&ab_channel=Veritasium

Now I’ve watched that.

Yes, all the way through.

Either/orism strikes again, both on the part of the VARKists, and those who totally dismiss the entire concept of learning styles.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Dark Orange said:

Despite Veritasium’s latest video, I still believe I am a “Practical learner”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA&ab_channel=Veritasium

Now I’ve watched that.

Yes, all the way through.

Either/orism strikes again, both on the part of the VARKists, and those who totally dismiss the entire concept of learning styles.

Morning all.
Haven’t read the article but I know that I am a visual learner.
If I see it I understand & remember. If I hear it, as they say, goes in one ear & out the other.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Dark Orange said:

Despite Veritasium’s latest video, I still believe I am a “Practical learner”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA&ab_channel=Veritasium

Now I’ve watched that.

Yes, all the way through.

Either/orism strikes again, both on the part of the VARKists, and those who totally dismiss the entire concept of learning styles.

so what we’re saying is, there are many different modalities through which learning can take place, and learning takes place through those modalities it can, and at certain times or in certain situations then some of those modalities may be more prominent, and the imposition of arbitrary delineations especially in this setting is not particularly useful

To ‘learn’ something we must first clearly identify what it is, what elements are necessary to understand and retain, and what is sufficient to show the knowledge or demonstrate the skill. Then, depending upon the nature of the knowledge or skill, we need to assess the person’s understanding of context and relevance, their decision making, and how well they cope with crowdedness.

I’m not convinced that ideas like ‘visual learning’ or ‘practical learning’ come anywhere near understanding the full complexity of knowledge gain.

Dark Orange said:

Despite Veritasium’s latest video, I still believe I am a “Practical learner”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA&ab_channel=Veritasium

I suppose I could break the habit of a lifetime and watch a ewetube.

I’m a three-way learner. Sometimes four way if I can manage that.

I learn by employing hear+see+write, all that the same time. Not talk, talking makes me forget.

Dark Orange said:

Despite Veritasium’s latest video, I still believe I am a “Practical learner”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA&ab_channel=Veritasium

I think it’s valuable to clearly understand whether you’re leaning a skill or an element of knowledge. A preference for ‘Practical’ strongly suggests a skill, IMO.

watched some of that

lot of its benefits are probably in the negotiations with the learner (application of, applied of learning styles), given learning is in various ways negotiation of some sort, applications of intelligence are also, applying the mind tools, so there are psychological benefits off the bat just from appreciating learning involves negotiating things

but it’s true sure as a dyslexic, for example, might have a learning style, and everyone has cognitive differences really (along with similarities of course)

I think a person has to start somewhere and progress from that, you know even babies have a learning style, as a person develops the style changes maybe, or a person might venture into ways not typical of their more regular ‘style’, small steps maybe

an interesting question might be – are there aspects of infants learning style that persist for the entirely of a typical human’s life, into old age

I expect the answer to that would be yes, it’s necessary for nurturing, as very old people have grandchildren and great grandchildren, and the very young learn from the old