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Myth Of Learning Styles Essay

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In school everyone learns differently; however, according to the article The Myth of Learning Styles, “The idea of learning styles is based on a theory… developed in the early 1980’s.” (pg 1.) A lot has certainly changed from the 1980’s as we learn new more material in every class we take. With this being said, someone the scientists referred to in the article “assumed” that learning styles challenged the way of the educational system when in reality, it is simply a myth. Students, like myself, only prefer to process information that they find useful or interesting to him or her. Thus giving us the problems of that teachers may take too long to cover one idea, and students may miss out out on information because he or she did not prefer that learning style. One learning style is Visual. Many believe vision is being able to see things. Great vision for instance is 20/20. Although, you can not learn by just being able to see. The brain actually …show more content…

Tactical learning is learning by doing the “hands-on” way. They are accustomed to moving around and learning that way. They would not be comfortable sitting in a desk for hours learning another way. There will not always be a time to be able to learn that way. Sometimes it costs money and not everyone will be good at it. Using your hands is good in most subjects. Although, you do not find yourself being able to go to a digging expedition sight to actually find history. The final way of learning is the read and write style. This method could be efficient in some places. Although, sometimes you will not have time to write things down. A professor will be speaking and take no breaks and you will miss some information. You might be in a lab experimenting, and you will not even be near a notebook to write. The problem with reading is that sometimes you are giving more than you actually can read. You won’t always have the time to work in reading with your schedule. It would just be too

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