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Donald Clark Plan B: Amazing learning styles research
I agree with the commenters who suggested this post would have been better on April 1, but it's a nice test of information literacy and common sense for people to read it now. How many teachers, trainers, and administrators do you think you could fool with this fake research?
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Mind Hacks: The Straight Dope on Learning Styles
Interesting perspective on learning style theories, arguing that they may be useful because they help teachers become more aware of how they're teaching, even if the research support for any given theory is lacking
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Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning
Book-length literature review on learning styles research, concluding that the usefulness of learning styles of pedagogy depends greatly on what model you use.
more fromwww.lsda.org.uk
Should we be using learning styles? What research has to say to practice
Long PDF (84 pages) on learning styles research and how it can--and should--influence pedagogy. Examines 13 learning style models and finds a lot of variety in relability, validity, and general usefulness of the models.
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YouTube - Learning Styles Don't Exist
A cognitive psychologist argues that learning styles, as the theory is generally understood, don't exist and aren't supported by research. He acknowledges that there are differences in visual and auditory memory, but says the research doesn't show that differentiating instruction based on learning styles actually has any effect.
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Do Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners Need Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Instruction?
Examines what cognitive science actually tells us about different learning styles and argues that the best answer is to choose the modality that best suits the content rather than adapting to the student.
more fromwww.aft.org
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