Blazing Trails

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Blazing Trails

• Leading Student Learning

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Learning MODESLead them to Water
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Auditory Learners

• Learn by hearing
• Remember sounds/remember what was said
• Lectures, recordings, reading aloud, group
  discussions, oral instructions, books on CD
  ebook readers
• Take few notes
• Record own voice

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Visual Learners

• Learn by seeing
• Remember a picture/remember what was shown
• Reading, video/diagrams/charts/pictures, print
  screen features, turn off ebook audio features,
  written directions, color
• Take lots of notes
• Will ask you to repeat information

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Kinesthetic Learners

• Learn by doing (first-hand experience, tactile)
• Remember what they do
• Experiments/labs, games, field trips,
  problem-solving, physical props
• Take lots of notes (that they may not read)
• Use movement for experience

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Biggest Misconception

• Because everyone can learn by hearing, seeing,
  and doing, it does not matter how the instructor
  structures or designs the delivery of
  information.
• Ability and preference are NOT the same.

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• Preferred Mode
• Smooth
• Automatic
• Easy
• Fast
• Comfortable
• Confident

• Non-preferred Mode
• Shaky
• Have to think about
• Hard
• Slow
• Uncomfortable
• Unsure

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Learning ModePreference IS Important
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Be Purposeful
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Best Handout

• Color paper or ink
• Fill-in Map or Outline places to write in
  information
• Key steps/words for assignment --
  acronyms/visuals

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Nature? Nurture?
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Learning STYLESGet them to Drink
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Learning is perceiving and processing information.

• Learning style is PREFERENCE for perceiving and
  processing information.
• David Kolb

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Learning STYLES

• 1. Imaginative WHY?
• 2. Analytical WHAT?
• 3. Common Sense HOW?
• 4. Dynamic WHAT IF?

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Imaginative Learners

• Perceive through experience, process through
  reflection
• Seek meaningfulness
• Ask WHY?
• Starting Point
• Gather ideas, brainstorm, various points of view,
  argue both sides, find connections
• Curious

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Analytical Learners

• Perceive through abstract conceptualization,
  process through reflection
• Seek knowledge/information
• Ask WHAT?
• Follow Imagination
• Gather facts and evidence, evaluate ideas, build
  theories, sort and organize
• Want to get it right

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Common Sense Learners

• Perceive through abstract conceptualization,
  process through experimentation
• Seek usability
• Ask HOW?
• Follow Information
• Gather evidence through trying it out, trial and
  error, make it work, tinker, practice
• Figure out what works

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Dynamic Learners

• Perceive through experience, process through
  experimentation
• Seek possibilities
• Ask WHAT IF?
• Follow Trying/Practice/Tinkering
• Gather experience and information to make it
  their own, do it their own way, refine whats
  been given
• What if I do this?

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• Freshman Learning Community
• library instruction experience.

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Instruction Design

• What?
• Content and outcome -- Information
• Why?
• Past and future Experience (context)
• How?
• Practice -- Usefulness
• What if?
• Playing and Becoming -- Integration

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Instruction Presentation

• Why?
• What?
• How?
• What if?

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• Do not forget the WHY?
• Practical/Failure/So You Can Do It Yourself?
• Can skip the WHAT IF?

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• www.aboutlearning.com
• 10 online Learning Type Measure assessment of
  learning style
• David Kolb, Experiential Learning Theory
• Bernice McCarthy, About Learning

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Leading Student Learning

• Learning Modes
• Lead them to Water
• Learning Styles
• Get them to Drink