Double Journal Entry #4

Do Learning Styles Exist?

Response:

After watching the video about learning styles, I agree with the author that learning styles do exist but are not a surefire way to set up your teaching style.  The author states that learning is meaning based and I also agree with that comment.  When we learn we use a combination of all learning styles- kinesthetic, auditory, visual, tactile- but to really learn something we must know the true meaning of the content to actually remember it.  We use the clues of how we remember something as to the style of learner that we are.  If we are visual learners, we visualize the object but we also assign a meaning to the object.  If we are auditory learners, we hear the name of the object in our subconscious mind, but we also assign a meaning to the object…so forth and so on.  Theorists try to explain the learning process as a definite approach, but in reality no one knows exactly how we learn, and it can be different for each individual in question.