Week 5 post

I think that conversing learning can be far more beneficial to some students verses others. While traditional instruction has its place and time other methods are useful. From my own experiences I know this to be true. I am dyslexic; furthermore I have two sisters that are handicapped. Traditional learning wasn’t always the best way for us to learn. I needed to hear the information out loud. Reading it confused me and took much longer for me to understand then if my teachers would lecture. Even now I find that I learn at a higher level and faster when verbally given the information verses reading a textbook. While not all students have learning disabilities I think that conversing learning can help even those students. The way you may learn one thing may not work in a different subject or topic. I think different forms understanding information is helpful to all.

I do think that students have different learning styles. For example: My sister can read something and remember it instantly while I may read something have to make flashcards and then study the information before it is in my long term memory. I also think that every student has different styles. I think people have a natural desire to categorize things and this is a perfect example. While some students may have similar styles I don’t think one person learns the exact same way as someone else. I have a hard time believing personality tests. I have an uneasy feeling that it is too similar to zodiac signs and such nonsense. I could take that exact same quiz tomorrow and have a different reading on it therefore I distrust it. I think I will know more about my students by studying them on a day to day bases not a personality quiz.