ICT Blogathon

Thursday, 15 March 2012

 Felder and Solomon learning styles 

So, this is what happens when I take one of these personality tests a few weeks apart and answer the questions as honestly as possible.  I saved the top one after completing it in week one so I could take it again a few weeks down the track when I'd forget the answers I'd chosen the first time.  I have no idea what that says about my learning style at this stage, but it has helped me to realise that like myself, my students will have needs that can change over time and I should be careful not to pigeon-hole them based on my initial impression.

"To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins.  Therefore, he who differentiates well, teaches well."

- John Amos Comenius


Multiple Intelligences

This is also a test I'd saved from week one to compare with the results of another test I've undertaken today.  I only included the one screenshot this time because the results were pretty much identical.  It appears the results from my little self-experiment are; my learning style varies according to my mood, environment etc, while my multiple intelligences remain static.  This double-blind, placebo-controlled and statistically randomised study with the impressive sample size of 1 seems to suggest that an effective pedagogical strategy is to tailor ICT's to match a student's multiple inteligences using a variety of methods that adapt to learning styles that vary over time.  Also (Beetham, 2006).

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