Post 1: Learning Styles

In the past, I have heard many people talk about learning styles, which basically means that people

can learn better in different ways. Some examples of learning styles include visual (learn best by

seeing pictures/illustrations), auditory (learn best by hearing sound), and kinesthetic (learn best by

hands-on experiences). I have always thought that this is a reasonable claim and that I am mostly a

visual learner, but now I understand that this is not exactly the case. After seeing that there are several

studies which prove that the learning styles claim is false, I realized that I was not always a visual

learner, and only thought that because of the idea of learning styles being stressed to help me study.

In other words, certain methods of studying work best depending on what you are learning. For

example, this basically means that you would not listen to a description of a country’s shape in order

to learn about it, because it is better to look at a map. Studies show that there is a lack of evidence

that one specific learning style will help you when studying, so it is likely better to use a combination

of multiple as shown in the venn diagram below.