Learning Styles.ppt - Different types of learning styles

1. Educational Technology
- Learning Styles
Dr. R. Gopi
Ph.D Scholar
Dept of Veterinary & AH Extension
CVAS, Mannuthy

2. Learning Styles
 Learning Style is the way an individual
best learns
 Preferred method or way an individual
absorbs, processes, and retains
information.
 Information enters our brain through
three methods: sight, hearing, and
touch.
 Different learning style (Me & Rashmi)
 Learning styles depends
 VARK model learning style

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4. Visual Learners
 Learn best through visual aids like charts, graphs,
and diagrams.
 They often benefit from watching videos or seeing
information presented in a visual format.
 Prefer to see information such as pictures,
diagrams, cartoons, or demonstrations
 Easily distracted : No visual / Noise
 Motivated : Many visuals
 Benefit from using charts, maps, notes, and flash cards
when studying
 My Son

5. Strategies/Techniques to enhance
Visual learning style
 Use graphics to reinforce learning.
 Color code to organize notes and
possessions.
 Use color to highlight important
points in text.
Illustrate ideas as a picture before
writing them down.
Take notes.

6. Auditory Learners
 Grasp information best through listening.
 Prefer lectures, discussions, or other auditory methods.
 Benefit from verbal explanations and discussions.
 Often avoid eye contact in order to concentrate
 May read aloud to themselves
 Like background music when they study
 Auditory learners think in words rather than pictures
 My Daughter – Stories

7. Strategies/Techniques to enhance
Auditory learning style
 Read aloud.
 Recite information to learn.
 Use tunes or rhymes as
mnemonic devices.
 Use verbal analogies and
storytelling to demonstrate their
point
 My Daughter - Stories

8. Read/Write learners
Prefer to process information through reading and
writing.
Excel with written materials, such as textbooks,
notes, and written explanations.
Benefit from creating lists or writing out concepts.

9. Kinesthetic learners
Learn best through hands-on experiences and physical
activities.
Prefer to learn by doing and often benefit from practical
applications, experiments, or interactive activities.
Learn through moving, doing and touching
Find it hard to sit still for long periods
They points while reading
They use a lot of gestures when they are talking
 Learn by doing - Farmers

10. Strategies/Techniques to enhance
Kinesthetic learning style
Make models or role play to
physically experience
learning.
skim through reading
material before reading it in
detail.
Learn by doing – Farmers –
Azolla demonstration,
Dentition

11. Social Learners and Independent Learners
 Social : Process
information best when
multi-tasking in busy
environments with other
people.
 Tend to enjoy study
sessions, group projects
and cooperative learning.
 Independent : Process
information best when
working independently or
isolated.
 Tend to work best in
quiet, undisturbed,
regular study
environments.

12. Analytic and Global Learning Theory
This theory describes the order in which a
learner prefers to process information received
by looking at the whole then breaking it down
into individual parts or by looking at each
individual part and then combining it into a
whole.
Sometimes called right-brain and left-brain
theory

13. Analytic and Global Learner - The forest or the trees?
 Analytic (Left brain):
Process information
logically, sequentially, in
small parts.
 Process information
globally and
simultaneously, deals in
images.

14. Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence’s Theory
 Linguistic: enjoys working with the spoken word
and languages.
 Spatial: enjoys visual, artistic imagery, has the
ability to construct visual pictures in their mind.
 Logical-mathematical: enjoys puzzles and
problem-solving requiring thought.
 Musical: enjoys music and understands the
language of music.

15. Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence’s Theory
 Body kinesthetic: has aptitude for sports and
recreational activities involving bodily
movements.
 Interpersonal: works well with others and is
tuned into those around them.
 Intra-personal: enjoys self-reflection and
introspection, is aware of their body.

16. Educational Technology- Learning Styles
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