Do Learning Styles Exist?

Do Learning Styles Exist? 09/08/2008

I happened upon this Youtube video on De Tools of the Trade Blog... Pretty interesting. Apparently this psychology professor from Virginia, Daniel Willingham, discredits what teachers across America hold dearly to as they carefully plan their lessons to include best practice for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners. Go figure...

Comments

j.j.

09/14/2008 22:06

wow!I am not sure that I totally agree with this logic.I think this is a dangerous theory, in that teachers have an excuse to go back to there old style of teaching without attention to several modalities.21st century teaching certainly requires that teachers use a variety of approaches including sound, movemen and visual.

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