How Do YOU Learn

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How Do YOU Learn?

• An exploration of
• Learning Preferences, Personality
• Academic Preparedness

Mike Walker UNIV-1011 University
Success September 22, 2005
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Todays Agenda

• explore your personal learning style
• sensory learning style preference
• cognitive or thinking preference
• Multiple Pathways to Learning
• Personality Spectrum
• Discovery Wheel
• this is the foundation of your personal Learning
  Profile

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Todays Major Concepts

• you have personal preferences as a learner
• you have varying skills abilities as a learner
• creating your personal learning profile may help
  you
• choose appropriate learning strategies
• identify areas of strength and weakness 
• focus your learning energies more effectively

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now, How YOU Learn

• Back to todays lesson

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The Potential of Your Brain

• Three basic learning modalities
• Eight intelligences

• Trillions trillions of brain cells
• 100 billion neurons in thinking brain
• 20,000 possible connections between neurons
• Three brains in one
• Two sides to the brain

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Three Basic Learning Modalities

• Sensory Preferences and Learning Style

Activity 1
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Learning Style

• We take in and begin to process information
  through our senses.
• Our preferences in the way we take in information
  influences our ability to learn in different
  environments.

• Sensory Modalities
• Auditory
• Visual
• Kinesthetic/Tactile

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Two Sides to the Brain

• Brain Orientation - Thinking Preference and
  Learning Style

Activity 2
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Analytic Learner Global Learner Left
Brain Characteristics Right Brain
Characteristics

• looking at details
• focussing on one thing
• giving direct answers
• organization
• individual competition
• establishing routines
• working through ideas
• following schedules

• seeing the big picture
• cooperating in groups
• giving and receiving praise
• reading body language
• going with the flow
• doing several things at once
• focusing on ideas/themes
• listening sincerely to others
• reading between the lines

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Eight Intelligences

• Multiple Intelligences Learning Style
• Its not about how smart you are, but how you
  are smart!

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Gardners Intelligence

• . . . an ability to solve problems or fashion
  products that are useful in a particular cultural
  setting or community.
• image source http//www.essentialschools.org/
  images/ff_pics/ff2000/speakers/howard.jpg

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Multiple Intelligence Theory -The Seven Eight
Intelligences

• Howard Gardner
• Verbal/Linguistic
• Logical/Mathematical
• Visual/Spatial
• Bodily/Kinesthetic
• Musical/Rhythmic
• Interpersonal
• Intrapersonal
• Naturalist
• Existential

• Interest may Aptitude, Strength Preference
• vs
• Disinterest may Ineptitude, Weakness
  Prejudice

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. . . Over Four Dimensions

• The Personality Spectrum
• Dr. Joyce Bishop
• based on Keirsey, MBTI Jung

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Personality analysis

• How do you respond to the world around you?
• Externally
• Internally
• From where do you get your esteem?
• What motivates you?
• What satisfies or completes you?

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Personality Spectrum
Giver
Thinker
Organizer
Adventurer
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Self-Evaluation

• What kind of student are you?
• What kind of student do you want to be?

Activity 3
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The Discovery Wheel as a holistic self-evaluation

• The Discovery Wheel
• A summary of academic skills and attitudes
• What does your Discovery Wheel say about you?
• What are your strengths and weaknesses?
• Get a sense of your Discovery Wheel its weight,
  shape, and balance. How would you feel if you ran
  your hands around it? Is it balanced?