Week 9 DISCUSSION: Learning Styles and Technology

I have initiated this week of study with the article

"Learning Styles 

and Strategies" written by Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman. I strongly agree that a lesson should address all the learning categories, so the teacher is to combine the all kinds of tasks. 

All categories of technology could be useful here. Intended for sensing and intuitive learners PBL could be applied. In favor of visual learners assignments should be different i.e. to create some matching scheme, diagram, etc. On the other hand for verbal learners its summarizing, analyzing, writing a plan, questions, etc.

The "Concept to Classroom: Multiple Intelligences" offered by Howard Gardner. A number of critics reveal that it is not easy to compare and classify students' skills and abilities across classrooms and that educators faced with overloaded classrooms and not have of resources see multiple intelligence theory as Utopian.

This week's assignments are rather valuable, in view of the fact that the learning styles are definitely incredible together teachers and trainee teachers should be attentive of. To generate efficient and valuable teaching resources and milieu, one have to know not just what variety of learner types there are in a class, other than in addition what could be appropriate strategy for each and every one.

The critique Multiple Intelligence in the Classroom by Bruce Campbell which endows with a motivating insight into ways how these intelligence can be put into practice. Similar to this, when it comes to my trainee teachers, I think one of the best activities to make the teachers engaged and efficient, would be to use WebQuests with mutual elements. In this way teachers will work in clusters being able to suit their style to the various tasks to be completed.

Dr. Ashok Kumar