I hear and I forget;
I see and I remember;
I do and I understand.
(Confucius
circa 450BC)
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Learning differently
Plan of session
Individual activity
Learning Styles
Case studies in group work
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Outcomes for this session
• To define learning styles and learning
strategies
• To explore multisensory methods of teaching
delivery
• To relate multisensory learning to different
contexts.
• To emphasize good memory strategies
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The teacher who influenced
me most
• Take a few minutes to think of one
particular teacher who brought learning
to life at any point in your education
• How do you remember that person?
• What special features did that teacher
possess?
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Experience in education
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Learning and teaching styles
“I am someone’s son or
daughter, someone else’s
cousin or uncle, I am a
citizen of this or that city,
a member of this or that
guild or profession, I
belong to this tribe, that
clan, this nation.
I inherit from the past of my
family, my city, my tribe,
my nation, a variety of
debts, inheritances,
rightful expectations and
obligations.
These constitute the given of
my life, my moral starting
point. This is the part
what gives my life its own
moral particularity”
Alasdair MacIntyre
What is learning?
The brain contains 100 billion neurons
What is a Mind?
Newborn
3 Months
15 Months
2 Years
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Caution
Learning Styles
• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinaesthetic
• Wholistic
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How best do you think you absorb
information in a learning situation?
1. Visual Experience
2. Auditory Experience
3. Kinaesthetic
46%
Experience
4. Wholistic Experience
31%
15%
8%
1
2
3
4
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What is the least favourable way for you
to absorb information in a learning
situation?
1. Visual Experience
8% 8%
2. Auditory Experience
3. Kinaesthetic
Experience
4. Wholistic Experience
62%
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23%
2
3
4
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Learning Styles &
Multisensory Techniques
• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinaesthetic
• Wholistic
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Visual learners learn best
through:
• Taking notes and making lists to read
later
• Reading information to be learned
• Learning from books, videotapes,
filmstrips and printouts
• Seeing a demonstration
• Working with concept maps
• Seeing the the larger picture
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Strategies for visual learners
Create concept maps /flow charts
• Use videos and photos
• Format texts and notes
• Use colours, underline and circle texts
• Visualisation
• Use models, actual or virtual
• Use symbols to back up verbally-presented
information
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Activity to demonstrate
Visual Learning
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Auditory learners learn best
through:
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Listening to lectures and audio sources
Debating and discussing ideas
Preparing oral presentations for others
Using speech recognition software
Finding alternative ways of accessing
texts
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Strategies for auditory
learners
• Recording notes through speech
recognition software
• Recording lectures to listen again
• Reading aloud or singing information
• Revising by recording and replaying
information
• Making a list of keywords
• Compiling a subject-specific vocabulary22
Activity to demonstrate
auditory techniques
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Kinaesthetic learners learn
best through;
• Doing and practising
• Taking in information through labs, field
trips, excursions, etc
• Learning from demonstrations
• Doing examples to learn concepts and
principles
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Strategies for kinaesthetics
learners
• Walk about while you are learning
• Take frequent study breaks
• Learn by handling materials, using
models, doing things
• Create models,posters, images
• Skim-read books to get an overview first
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Activity to demonstrate
kinaesthetic
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Wholistic Learning strategies
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Case Studies
• In your groups, consider the case study
and suggest a solution
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Useful websites
• www.mindtools.com/memory.html
• http://www.speedreading.com/
• http://www.brainhe.com/students/types/dyslexia.
html
• www.premiumhealth.com/memory/tip.html
• http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/
• http://www.lumosity.com/app/v4/personalization
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Bibliography
• McKissock, C. Great Ways to Learn Anatomy and
Physiology (2009)Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
• Maier P., Anna Barney & Geraldine Price, Study
Skills for Science, Engineering & Technology
Students (2009) Pearson, Harlow.
• Cottrell, Stella. The Study Skills Handbook, 3rd Ed
(2008) Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
• Mortimore ,T. Dyslexia and Learning Style - a
Practitioner’s Handbook, 2nd Ed. (2008) Wiley,
Chichester.
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Case Study 2
Physics
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Case study 3
Biomedical Science
Case Study 4
• Engineering
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Case Study 5
• English Literature
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Acknowledgements
Thanks are due to
Professor Suzan
Greenfield for the use
of slide no 9.
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