Learning Styles

How the Use of Digital Resources Can Address the Learning Needs of Children With Different Learning Styles

Cadence WaldenCadence Walden

Learning needs?

We all have individual learning needs but generally learn in group environments. It is possible to teach to incorporate many different learning needs.

The development and availability of digital resources enables varied teaching and learning styles to be addressed.

The advantages of new media is the depth of resources that can quickly be produced to create lessons with audio, images and video.

The greater the stimuli, the greater the response and participation.

Learning Styles

•Kinaesthetic

•Auditory

•Visual• Learning

styles have been categorised into three styles. “VAK”

• Each person will have a different balance and preference of style.

Visual

• Keywords displayed around the room• Body movements• Video, slideshows, coloured board marker (IWB marker)• Memory mapping, visual note taking tools• Posters

• Digital images and video play an important part of meeting the needs of student with a preference to visual learning

•Visual

Auditory

• Group discussion , including web chats• Rap, rhyme, chants and verse• Recordings and radio • Mnemonics, onomatopoeia• Music, to aid relaxing, review,

visualising

• Programs such as photo story enable narration and music to be played that means the resources can be more informative. A story could be read to the class of a science experiment process •A

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Kinaesthetic

• Body sculpture, mime• Demonstrations• Design and build activities• Field trips and visits• Physical movement.

• IWB enable tasks to be created that mean students can come up to the white board and move words about or write ideas down.

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VAK in the classroom

• This is an example of a task that incorporated VAK, cut and stick, teacher read the cards out and use of colour.

• This task was improved by having a version on the IWB that students could come up to and place the items relevant to them into the bag.

Multiple intelligences

• In addition to learning and teaching styles it is important to recognise that people have a different balance of intelligences.

• My strengths lie with mathematical and spatial intelligences.

• 8 Categories of intelligence:

• Interpersonal, Kinaesthetic, visual/spatial, naturalistic, musical, linguistic, mathematical/logical and interpersonal

ICT is/ can support teaching and learning

• Most classrooms now have IWB, to access audio, video, images, the internet and much more.

• IWB encourage learning activities that include Auditory, Kinaesthetic and Visual tasks

Conclusion

• Consequences of not meeting children's needs• Without creating lessons that are meaningful and

memorable students will not learn to their best capabilities

• Impact of new technologies • New technologies enable quick and easy access to

a wide range of in depth resources that are stimulating and relevant.

• Digital video audio images• Introduce variety in to the classroom to meet the

different learning styles and needs

Bibliography

• Brain Friendly Revision, Network Educational Press Ltd.

• Eight Ways of Teaching 4th ed David Lazear

• Accelerated Learning , The mind map book, T Buzan, 1993

• www.brainconnection.com• www.mindmotivation.com