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I hear and I forget;I see and I remember;

I do and I understand.

(Confucius circa 450BC)

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Plan of session

Individual activity

Learning Styles

Case studies in group work

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Outcomes for this session

• To define learning styles and learning strategies

• To explore multisensory methods of teaching delivery

• To relate multisensory learning to different contexts.

• To emphasize good memory strategies

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The teacher who influenced me most

• Take a few minutes to think of one particular teacher who brought learning to life at any point in your education

• How do you remember that person?

• What special features did that teacher possess?

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Experience in education

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Learning and teaching styles

“I am someone’s son or daughter, someone else’s cousin or uncle, I am a citizen of this or that city, a member of this or that guild or profession, I belong to this tribe, that clan, this nation.

I inherit from the past of my family, my city, my tribe, my nation, a variety of debts, inheritances, rightful expectations and obligations.

These constitute the given of my life, my moral starting point. This is the part what gives my life its own moral particularity”

Alasdair MacIntyre

What is learning?

The modification of behaviour through

training, practice or experience

The brain contains 100 billion The brain contains 100 billion neuronsneurons

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What is a Mind?

Newborn 3 Months 15 Months 2 Years

Caution

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Learning Styles

• Visual • Auditory• Kinaesthetic• Wholistic

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How best do you think you absorb information in a learning situation?

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1. Visual Experience 2. Auditory Experience3. Kinaesthetic Experience4. Wholistic Experience

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What is the least favourable way for you to absorb information in a

learning situation?

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8% 8%

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1. Visual Experience 2. Auditory Experience3. Kinaesthetic Experience4. Wholistic Experience

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Learning Styles & Multisensory Techniques

• Visual • Auditory• Kinaesthetic• Wholistic

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Visual learners learn best through:

• Taking notes and making lists to read later

• Reading information to be learned• Learning from books, videotapes,

filmstrips and printouts• Seeing a demonstration• Working with concept maps• Seeing the the larger picture

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Strategies for visual learnersCreate concept maps /flow charts• Use videos and photos• Format texts and notes• Use colours, underline and circle texts• Visualisation• Use models, actual or virtual• Use symbols to back up verbally-presented

information

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Activity to demonstrate Visual Learning

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Auditory learners learn best through:

• Listening to lectures and audio sources

• Debating and discussing ideas

• Preparing oral presentations for others

• Using speech recognition software

• Finding alternative ways of accessing texts

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Strategies for auditory learners

• Recording notes through speech recognition software

• Recording lectures to listen again

• Reading aloud or singing information

• Revising by recording and replaying information

• Making a list of keywords

• Compiling a subject-specific vocabulary

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Activity to demonstrate auditory techniques

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Kinaesthetic learners learn best through;

• Doing and practising • Taking in information through labs, field

trips, excursions, etc• Learning from demonstrations• Doing examples to learn concepts and

principles

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Strategies for kinaesthetics learners

• Walk about while you are learning

• Take frequent study breaks

• Learn by handling materials, using models, doing things

• Create models,posters, images

• Skim-read books to get an overview first

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Activity to demonstrate kinaesthetic

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Wholistic Learning strategies

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Case Studies

• In your groups, consider the case study and suggest a solution

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Useful websites

• www.mindtools.com/memory.html• http://www.speedreading.com/• http://www.brainhe.com/students/types/

dyslexia.html• www.premiumhealth.com/memory/tip.html• http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk• http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/• http://www.lumosity.com/app/v4/personalization

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Bibliography

• McKissock, C. Great Ways to Learn Anatomy and Physiology (2009)Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

• Maier P., Anna Barney & Geraldine Price, Study Skills for Science, Engineering & Technology Students (2009) Pearson, Harlow.

• Cottrell, Stella. The Study Skills Handbook, 3rd Ed (2008) Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

• Mortimore ,T. Dyslexia and Learning Style - a Practitioner’s Handbook, 2nd Ed. (2008) Wiley, Chichester.

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Case Study 2Physics

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Case study 3

Biomedical Science

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Case Study 4

• Engineering

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Case Study 5

• English Literature

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Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to Professor Suzan

Greenfield for the use of slide no 9.