Learning Styles

 Hello everybody!

I haven't written for a while so here I come again! Last time we talked about presentations on multiple intelligences, so now I will talk about something that sounds similar but is actually different. Have you ever heard of learning styles? 

Learning styles refer to a range of theories that aim to account for differences in individuals' learning. There are four core learning styles in the VARK model, proposed by Neil Fleming and Colleen Mills in 1992, which includes visual, auditory, reading and writing, and kinesthetic. Sound familiar? These are some of the types of the multiple intelligences, right? You may think they are the same, just as I thought they were at first, but they are not. 

“Learning Styles can be defined as the way human beings prefer to concentrate on, store and remember new and/or difficult information. Multple Intelligence is a theoretical frame work for defining/ understanding/assessing/developing people’s different intelligence factors.” This basically means that MI represent our intellectual abilities and LS is how we prefer to learn. 

Back to the VARK model, I did the online test to see my learning preference and this was the result:

It's interesting that when I did it the first time at the university it came out something different, maybe I did it too fast, but today I did it consciously. I disagree with kinesthetics; I feel that I am just a read/write learner.  Speaking of which, I remember with my group we talked about verbal-linguistic intelligence. What a coincidence!

Here we are, you can't tell how nervous we were!

The verbal-linguistic intelligence involves the ability to understand and use spoken and written language. I'm not much of a talker but I love reading. My learning methods are based on note taking. I memorize information faster if I write it down. I will share a TMI with you. On a history test in high school, I remembered what page number and where the answer to a question was, I even remembered it was in pink highlighter but I didn't remember the information at all! My brain acts weird, it works when it wants to.

It is good to know this kind of info, you know. It helps you get to know yourself and what learning methods are best for you. So this is how we conclude one more topic, see you! 👋