Christopher Eliot (eliot@cs.umass.edu)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:17:23 -0500 (EST)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:17:23 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Eliot <eliot@cs.umass.edu> Subject: Re: [ifets] collaboration - Learning styles
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Bill Braun wrote:
> > There is a small point of logic here I think. If a student cannot
> >learn from a teacher or a book because it does not conform to their
> >learning style, how will that same student be able to accommodate
> >the possibly several learning styles in a study group.
1) There should be lessons aimed at helping students become more flexible
in their learning styles.
However, helping students become more flexible about their learning
style cannot always be the highest priority.
There are times when important content material must be learned by a
student. This should be taught using methods that conform to the
student's best learning style.
2) In traditional education I think this happens naturally, because
some teachers are flexible and some simply are not. (Teachers are
human after all.)
3) While designing educational technology systems we may have to
conciously do something similar.
However, even this may not be necessary as long as educational
technology is developed by multiple groups with different
philosophies.
Some groups will build software that is very flexible and conforms to
the student's learning style. Other groups will develop software that
is not very flexible and forces student's to conform to a particular
learning style. (Software developers are human after all.)
-Chris Eliot
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