Learning Styles, Mindsets, and Adaptive Strategies

Re: Learning Styles, Mindsets, and Adaptive Strategies

by Matt Bury -
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Hi Itamar,

When you want to know where a link or button is on a web page, what works faster for you; a text description of where it is or a picture with it highlighted/pointed to/underlined/circled? (A picture tells a thousand words).

Matching concepts with the most appropriate modes/media, if anything, is the antithesis of learning styles, which claims that we're supposed to match modes/media to learners instead of concepts.

If you have a habit of always using the same mode/media/strategy for learning, it doesn't tell us whether or not it's the most efficient or effective, just that you have a strong personal preference.

The research on learning styles seems to indicate that most learners' preferences change from task to task and context to context and that their responses to questionnaires are also significantly variable from one to the next.