Learning Style

Personal blog #6/discussion:

Summarize and discuss the results of the three personal learning styles tests you took (open up the PDF files of the results pages). To what extent are these results accurate? Was there anything that surprised you? Do they describe the way you learn accurately? Explain the unique way you learn, and how you can best seize on these strengths. What specific classes, teachers, and kinds of activities have helped you learn in the most effective manner?

All three tests asked somewhat similar questions. From taking these surveys, I am now certain that I am a visual learner. I always thought I was but these tests confirmed it. I did not see much that surprised me. I always knew that I would rather a hands on project instead of a paper and I would rather learn by doing physical activities and not listening to a teacher speak about it. To best seize these activities, I would require more hands on learning. More projects instead of busy work for a project involved me to actually do something whereas busy work and listening is not in my interests. My "Crafts" class last year was probably the best hands on class I will ever take. Everything involved me putting something together or building something. There was no learning other than how to go about different projects but the rest was left to our creativity. I know that it is harder for some teachers to do projects or bring in hands on activities when they teach something like history since it is all factual based. I also learned form the test that I would rather learn facts then theories and ideas since a fact is set in stone and can't change making it easier for me to comprehend. But, history would probably be the worst subject for me. Even though it is a class about facts, it is hard to incorporate hands on activities.