The Biggest Myth In Education, learning styles.

[ShazamIam]

From youtube channel Veritasium:

The Biggest Myth In Education, learning styles, seems to be free of any research support.

[paranoid floyd]

1. Fascinating

Well worth the watch, thanks for posting.

[cab67]

2. I have some friends in the psych department here.

They've been saying this for years.

It's been incorporated into a program we give for incoming freshmen before classes begin. It always brings up a lot of confused faces - a lot of these students had been told they're either visual or verbal and should direct their education accordingly.

[Quixote1818]

3. Where do dyslexic kids fall then?

There are entire schools designed for dyslexic kids who struggle in traditional learning but go onto being entrepreneurial at a much higher rate than non dyslexic kids even though they struggle early on with reading and writing.

[pansypoo53219]

5. indeed. i read better than hear. read slowly of course. but i retain better.

just don't mention quadratic equations.

[ShazamIam]

6. Dyslexia doesn't go away so we learn to compensate for it. I learned to read before I went to school

so that gave me an advantage I did have problems writing accurately and writing math problems and solutions correctly. My strategy, work fast, then check everything. As seen in my posts and comments, I have gotten slack on proofing my own production, unless on a payroll or in a classroom.

[NQAS]

4. Agree. Very interesting.

I'm not a teacher and my kids are long out of school, and I was surprised that this video was as captivating as it was. And I think that also points out that, whatever kind of learner you are, the nature of the teacher is critical. And it highlights just how tough teaching is - keeping young people on track, maybe even captivated, throughout the day, and day in and day out, for a very long time. It's amazing that anybody even gives it a try.