Comments on: Learning Styles, Brain-Based Learning, and Daniel Willingham https://blog.learnlets.com/2008/09/learning-styles-brain-based-learning-and-daniel-willingham/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:57:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Learning Styles: The Validating Evidence is Not There https://blog.learnlets.com/2008/09/learning-styles-brain-based-learning-and-daniel-willingham/#comment-130648 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:57:37 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=387#comment-130648 […] From Clark Quinn : http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=166 - From: http://learnstreaming.com/7-resources-explaining-the-learning-styles-myth/ – and http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=387 […]

]]> By: Elite https://blog.learnlets.com/2008/09/learning-styles-brain-based-learning-and-daniel-willingham/#comment-82966 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:11:06 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=387#comment-82966 I think the only way to test any cognitive psychology theories or clinical research findings is to translate them into applied research by using them. Use it and then when you see your students’ enjoying your learning by demonstrating enhanced interest/body language/participation/attention, you don’t need much further proof, do you?

]]> By: Clark https://blog.learnlets.com/2008/09/learning-styles-brain-based-learning-and-daniel-willingham/#comment-72305 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:23:25 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=387#comment-72305 Karen, as my more recent post says, I think we need to recognize different learning skills, and provide support. I take Willingham’s message to be don’t use the wrong media for communication just because of ‘styles’ (e.g. don’t use prose to communicate a complex interaction), but his position is on information presentation. Somewhat in opposition to Spiro’s cognitive flexibility theory as well (note to self: reconcile this). I didn’t hear him say don’t assist learners to process information that’s complex for them, nor for different forms of application.

And, yes, I’ve looked at Universal Design in the past, and strongly support different forms of processing information actively. That’s why I talk about blogs, wikis, and discussion forums as supporting different types of knowledge application. I’m a fan of portfolio approaches to assessment as well. And I argue for adding the emotional engagement as well as cognitive.

]]> By: KarenJanec https://blog.learnlets.com/2008/09/learning-styles-brain-based-learning-and-daniel-willingham/#comment-72304 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:52:38 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=387#comment-72304 His final comment scared me and I called and spoke to him about it. It seemed to absolve teachers of taking any responsibility for appreciating the fact that there are students in their classrooms who have learning differences/disabilities. Have you checked out the work at Cast.org and their Universal Design for Learning Principles? Students need/benefit from multiple methods of engagement, representation and expression. His conclusion suggests that maintaining the status quo or one size fits all is sufficient. I work with too many students who fail using this approach and who see themselves as failures or, worse, stupid.
Please do not perpetuate this and I know this is not your intention.

]]> By: Clark https://blog.learnlets.com/2008/09/learning-styles-brain-based-learning-and-daniel-willingham/#comment-71362 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:16:36 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=387#comment-71362 Dave, love it!

]]> By: Dave Ferguson https://blog.learnlets.com/2008/09/learning-styles-brain-based-learning-and-daniel-willingham/#comment-71359 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:27:13 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=387#comment-71359 From David Owen, “Are You a Difficult Person?” (The Atlantic Monthly, October 1989):

One thing I’ve noticed about brain polarity is that, at least in its motivational-seminar form, it seems to be primarily a right-brained concept. That is, it’s a concept used by flexible, disorganized people to explain the behavior of inflexible, organized people, such as managers, accountants, bankers, and your boss.

]]> By: More Debunking from Professor Willingham | Workplace Learning Today https://blog.learnlets.com/2008/09/learning-styles-brain-based-learning-and-daniel-willingham/#comment-69972 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:12:34 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=387#comment-69972 […] Learning Styles, Brain-based Learning, and Daniel Willingham | Learnlets | Clark Quinn | 11 September 2008 […]

]]> By: Jason https://blog.learnlets.com/2008/09/learning-styles-brain-based-learning-and-daniel-willingham/#comment-69848 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:03:33 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=387#comment-69848 I don’t mind being a little wrong, but I hate being
totally out to lunch. Thanks for helping to gel my
understanding of this, Clark. It’s going to call for a
whole lot of introspection, and examining of curriculum
etc.

]]> By: Guy W. Wallace https://blog.learnlets.com/2008/09/learning-styles-brain-based-learning-and-daniel-willingham/#comment-69801 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:01:00 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=387#comment-69801 Clark – Thank you for the debunking this notion and for the links to the video!

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