The online material which was presented to us this week was information which I had already been exposed to in other courses, however, it was good to refresh my mind and read up on a few different opinions about the topic.
I believe that Learning Styles are one of, if not, the most important concept when achieving successful learning for all learners. To accommodate all learners, a knowledge and understanding of their learning styles is essential. We are supposedly living in the 'knowledge' era, where knowledge plays a vital role in everyday living and assists in job opportunities. Employers want employees with an array of knowledge, not those who just know a specific concept and stick to that.
In the times of the 'industrial' era teaching was considered to be a teacher orientated job with the input from learners being disregarded. Teaching in the industrial era was seen to be the teacher up the front of the class teaching the students out of a text book, with no collaboration, no use of technology and no teaching styles which accommodated each individual learning style. This way of teaching may have been efficient in transferring the information across to the students, but it didn't assist them in understanding and evaluating the information.
Each individual within a class room has their own abilities towards interpreting information. Some may be ahead of others, some may be behind, some may learn more effectively by demonstrations or visual aids, whereas some may learn best from reading an example and doing written activities. NO LEARNER IS THE SAME!
I am excited to start this course and learning all about digital aid and how it will help us to accommodate the learning styles for all learners. Coming into this course I am ready for the big work load and am looking forward to learning new information which will help me to become the best learning manager I can be (:
I hope you enjoyed week 1 :)
I just has a little play with 'Popplet' and made a mind map of what was learnt this week... so if you're more of a visual learner have a little look (:
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