Comments on: The Learning Styles Zombie https://blog.learnlets.com/2015/06/the-learning-styles-zombie/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:54:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Clark https://blog.learnlets.com/2015/06/the-learning-styles-zombie/#comment-820193 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:54:49 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=4370#comment-820193 In reply to Cathe.

Cathe, that’s just the problem: “felt right”. That’s not science. And we’ve got to get to science in our practices, because we see too much that’s bad because it’s not based on science but intuition. Like I said, it’s not bad, it’s just not science. There are better paths to get to the type of design that works for learning.

]]> By: Cathe https://blog.learnlets.com/2015/06/the-learning-styles-zombie/#comment-820192 Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:01:55 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=4370#comment-820192 t bad, it’s just not based upon sound science, and why you’d want to pay to use a heuristic approach when you can do that for free is beyond me.)"4 I learned about 4MAT in a couple of doctoral courses in the early 1990s and have used it informally ever since. Each of us in the first course took the assessment and most of us felt that our result mirrored our own perceived strengths and weaknesses pretty well. (Sorry that I didn't keep the notes from that class; I'd love to be able to review for which students it seemed wrong and why...) Dr. Bernice McCarthy gave a guest lecture after we had scored each other's assessments and answered questions. She was consistent in what she said and appeared sincere about her motivations. At that point in my career I already had worked as both a research psychometrician and as a school psychologist with elementary students. Her information "felt right" to me based on my testing experience with hundreds of children... I have used the broad concepts of 4MAT as a checklist when I create instructional programs to help me target my training to the widest possible audience. People unfamiliar with 4MAT can learn more so they can evaluate the approach - although not the science - for themselves: http://www.aboutlearning.com/what-is-4mat]]> “(So, for example, 4MAT isn’t bad, it’s just not based upon sound science, and why you’d want to pay to use a heuristic approach when you can do that for free is beyond me.)”4 I learned about 4MAT in a couple of doctoral courses in the early 1990s and have used it informally ever since. Each of us in the first course took the assessment and most of us felt that our result mirrored our own perceived strengths and weaknesses pretty well. (Sorry that I didn’t keep the notes from that class; I’d love to be able to review for which students it seemed wrong and why…) Dr. Bernice McCarthy gave a guest lecture after we had scored each other’s assessments and answered questions. She was consistent in what she said and appeared sincere about her motivations. At that point in my career I already had worked as both a research psychometrician and as a school psychologist with elementary students. Her information “felt right” to me based on my testing experience with hundreds of children… I have used the broad concepts of 4MAT as a checklist when I create instructional programs to help me target my training to the widest possible audience. People unfamiliar with 4MAT can learn more so they can evaluate the approach – although not the science – for themselves: http://www.aboutlearning.com/what-is-4mat

]]> By: Clark https://blog.learnlets.com/2015/06/the-learning-styles-zombie/#comment-820172 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 17:53:17 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=4370#comment-820172 James, would welcome moving the debate behind, if it didn’t keep reappearing and eating people’s brains! Though I might challenge the communication and social interaction, I think the real key is ‘application’. Practice, practice, practice. And yes, that can (and often should) be social.

And yes, John, indeed it’s about designing so that the material is comprehended (and applied).

]]> By: John Laskaris https://blog.learnlets.com/2015/06/the-learning-styles-zombie/#comment-820169 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:01:53 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=4370#comment-820169 t satisfy everyone why creating an eLearning content and turning it into a course. People differs and that’s why to me it’s fine when the course is decently prepared meaning everyone (or almost everyone) is able to understand the subject and gain new knowledge – this is the thing we should keep in mind while making the course.]]> Well, we can’t satisfy everyone why creating an eLearning content and turning it into a course. People differs and that’s why to me it’s fine when the course is decently prepared meaning everyone (or almost everyone) is able to understand the subject and gain new knowledge – this is the thing we should keep in mind while making the course.

]]> By: James Tyer https://blog.learnlets.com/2015/06/the-learning-styles-zombie/#comment-820161 Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:05:08 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=4370#comment-820161 A good summary of good design vs folk tales Clark. I feel it’s time to leave the learning styles debate behind, as it seems to be wasted effort on many. I’ve been looking for testing of psychometric validity – so thank you for the link. So many myths…so little time. We keep putting people in boxes in the workplace, which are hard to leave once your “box” becomes “you” in the culture. The funny thing is, most of what is “good” design comes down to simple communication and social interaction ideas. The industry tends to make everything more and more complicated in order to sell the next big thing.

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