Mr. Langdon mentioned learning styles in class and how technology has affected our ability to understand things. So it got me thinking about how it specifically helps or hinders us individually.
Learning Style Quiz:
1. You are about to give directions to a person. She is staying in a hotel in town and wants to visit your house. She has a rental car. Would you:
V. draw a map on paper?
R. write down the directions (without a map?
A. tell her the directions?
K. collect her from the hotel in your car?
2. You are staying in a hotel and have a rental car. You would like to visit a friend whose address/location you do not know. Would you like them to:
V. draw you a map?
R. write down the directions (without a map)?
A. tell you directions?
K. collect you from the hotel in their car?
3. You have just received a copy of your intinerary for a world trip. This is of interest to your friend. Would you:
A. call her immediately and tell her about it?
R. Send her a copy of the printed intinerary?
V. show her a map of the world?
4. You are going to cook a dessert as a special treat for your family. Do you:
K. cook something familiar without the need for instructions?
V. thumb through a cookbook looking for ideas from the pictures?
R. refer to a specific cookbook where there is a good recipe?
A. ask for advise from others?
5. A group of tourists has been assigned to you to find out about national parks. Would you:
K.drive them to a national park?
V. show them slides and photographs?
R. give them a book on national parks?
A. give them a talk on national parks?
6. You are about to purchase a new stereo. Other than the price, what would most influence your decision?
A. a friend talking about it?
K. listening to it?
R. reading the details about it?
V. its distinctive, upscale appearance?
7. Recall a time in your life when you learned how to do something like playing a new board game. Try to avoid choosing a very physical skill, i.e. riding a bike. How did you learn best? By:
V. visual clues-pictures, diagrams, charts?
R. written instructions?
A. listening to somebody explain it?
K. doing it?
8. Which of these games do you prefer?
A. Pictionary? R. Scrabble? K. Charades?
9. You are about to learn how to use a new program on a computer. Would you:
K. ask a friend to show you?
R. read the manual which comes with the program?
A. telephone a friend and ask questions about it?
10. You are not sure whether a word should be spelled "dependent" or "dependant". Do you:
R. look it up in a dictionary?
V. see the word in your mind and choose the best way it looks?
A. sound it out?
K. write both versions down?
11. Apart from price, what would most influence your decision to buy a particular textbook?
K. using a friends copy?
R. skimming parts of it?
A. a friend talking about it?
V. it looks OK?
12. A new movie has arrived in town. What would most influence your decision to go or not go?
A. friends talking about it?
R. you read a review about it?
V. You saw a preview of it?
13. Do you prefer a lecturer/teacher who likes to use:
R. handouts and/or a textbook?
V. flow diagrams, charts, slides?
K. field trips. labs, practical sessions?
A. discussion, guest speakers?
Now go back and count how many V's, A's, R's, and K's you circled. Whichever letter you have circled most indicates your preferred learning style. If you have a "tie" or two letters are about equal you probably have more than one preferred learning style.
V's=Visual
You have been identified as a Visual Learner. You learn best by watching or seeing things.
A's=Aural
You have been identified as an Aural Learner. You learn best by hearing things said or explained.
R's=Reading
You have been identified as a Reading/Writing Learner. You learn best by reading and taking notes.
K's=Kinesthetic
You have been identified as a Kinesthetic Learner. You learn best by using your senses, especially hands-on approaches.
Now that you know what learning type(s) you are, how specifically has technology helped or hindered your learning both in the classroom and outside of it? Do you feel that overall it has enhanced your learning experience or made it worse?
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I don't think technology has really affected my life completely. However, I learned that I am an Aural Learner. I guess I use technology to be able to communicate with many people. I use my cellphone and other devices to talk to people. I am also a visual learner, but I like to communicate with people more than by just looking at an object.
Okay, so I took the test and I am a reader. I learn best by taking notes and by reading the material, which I expected because that’s how I have always been.
I think that technology impacts different types of learners in different ways. As a reader, I feel that technology has helped learning but only under certain circumstances. If I am trying to learn off of the technology directly, I feel that the technology is a hindrance; I can’t learn off of the technology. For example, with computers, I can’t sit still to stare and read a webpage to get information. I have a short attention span so I can’t do that. But if the webpage was printed out, then I would only have that available to me to see and so I would, in a way, be forced to concentrate. However, on the computer, the entire internet is in my reach and I could easily open up a different web site and close the original one. Thus, the computer doesn’t really help me learn since it gives me too many possibilities of things to do. Another form of technology that doesn’t help me learn is videos. Since I’m watching a video and most educational videos are boring, I won’t be able to pay attention.
Although technology doesn’t help me personally, I think it could help the kinesthetic, aural, or visual learners. Since technology is sometimes a hands-on-approach, like having virtual labs for science, it could help the kinesthetic learners. Since some websites have diagrams and procedures explained in video or audio, it could help the aural learners. And technology could definitely help the visual learners since most of technology deals with seeing information on it, like computers.
I think that technology can help all types of learners, if used in a certain way.
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