2022-12-30 01:31:32 -07:00
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title: "Learning Style"
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date: 2022-12-29T15:59:11-07:00
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2025-01-10 16:13:20 -07:00
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description: "I rant about the myth of learning styles"
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tags: ["thougts", "learning"]
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weight: 1
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type: "post"
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2022-12-30 01:31:32 -07:00
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# What's Your Learning Style?
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Hot take warning.
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2025-01-10 16:13:20 -07:00
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I think the notion that a person has a preferred learning style is ridiculous.
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I think it is a learned preference and a widely accepted myth, people learn in
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all sorts of different ways depending on the subject matter, environment, and age.
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# Why do I care?
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Because, I think its annoying when people bring up their learning preference
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to say that they are a visual learner. No one ever brings it up to say they
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have a tactile or auditory learning style. Why? Kinda like how (in my experience)
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whenever someone feels the need to unsolicitedly claim they have native american
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ancestry it is always Cherokee. Nothing against the Cherokee nation, its just funny
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to me that in my experience no one has broken those molds.
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The real bone I have to pick with visual learners is I feel it is used as a crutch
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to make some claim that they are unable to participate well in school or complete
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some task because it isn't catered toward their learning style. If anything,
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today would be the greatest time in the history of the world to be a visual
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learner. You can give ai somne words and it creates photo-realistic images.
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Youtube has more content to watch than you could ever get through in your
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lifetime, 1000's fold. And that's one platform. But visual learners, in my mind,
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have a close connotation with lazy zoomer tik-tok scrollers who can 'only learn'
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DIY hacks presented to them in a rapid fire, meme-spliced format. No. Thats
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learned through your terrible habits. Put your phone down and try to read a good
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book. Humans have learned through auditory and written means for thousands of
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years. Now you are gonna tell me there isn't a single auditory or tactile learner
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that brings up this inconvenience when Mr. Bones turns on Bill Nye the Science Guy?
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2022-12-30 01:31:32 -07:00
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To be realistic, this hardly ever happens, but it is irksome to me when it does.
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2025-01-10 16:13:20 -07:00
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Turns out [Veritasium](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA) made a video
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about this exact thing. He cites reviewing articles that state "There is no
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credible evidence that learning styles exist", so there we go. Just an intellect's imaginary invention.
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