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• Learning Styles Theory BOGUS?

  
  Pat'sBlog — Authority: 121
  Hat tip to Steve Phelps who put me on to this article... Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students . Some clips from the article: "There is no strong scientific evidence to support the "matching" idea, they contend in a paper published this week in Psychological Science in the Public ...
  5 days ago

• Learning Styles Debunked

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 132
  Teachers of the world, unite!  You have nothing to lose but the chains of pseudoscience.
  1 week ago

• Train the trainer course – what to look for?

  
  RapidBI-Mgt, Leadership & Business Development Articles — Authority: 123
  Need a Train the trainer course? Google shows over 4 million results - so how do you choose? This article looks at some of the practical things to look for in selection CIPD, CTP, ELF
  1 week ago

• Studies Find There’s No Such Thing as Learning Styles – As Teachers, Should We Care?

  
  tweenteacher.com — Authority: 406
  According to Psychcentral.com , “Learning Styles are being re-evaluated” and negated. This theory, according to a recently published journal article claims that there is really no research out there to prove that students learn differently from one another. Shrug. Cue eye roll.(...) Read the rest of Studies ...
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• Scientists: No evidence for learning styles

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 589
  No evidence supports the idea that children learn more if teachers teach to their “learning styles,” concludes a study by a team of cognitive scientists published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest . Education Week summarizes: Some children, for instance, may be visual learners, while others best ...
  1 week ago

• Study: No Adequate Evidence to Support “Learning Styles”

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 132
  The four most beautiful words in the English language are “I told you so.”   Dan Willingham is not the kind of guy to say such things out loud, but he could.  He’s taken some grief for saying there’s nothing in cognitive science to support the idea that kids have different ”learning styles.”   Nearly ...
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• Learning Styles Re-evaluated

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 583
  A long-standing educational philosophy is under attack as a new research report downplays the importance of different learning styles. Study authors believe prior investigations have failed to use credible research designs resulting in low scientific validity. For decades, educators have harped on the necessity of ...
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• Technology Trends for 2010

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 136
  A few days ago, one of the folks I follow on Plurk posted this entry:To follow the link click on the image or visit http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/12/10/5-k12-technology-trends-for-2010.aspxInteresting in looking at these tech trends for the coming year, they include:eBooks Will Continue to ProliferateNetbook ...
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• Myth 35: There are different “learning styles”.

  
  Mommy Myth Buster — Authority: 99
  We’ve all grown up being told that we learn better in different ways: some by doing, some by seeing, some by hearing…  This notion supported by the very real feeling that we do, in fact, absorb information better in some learning environments than in others.  Well, the Association for Psychological Science now ...
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• Learning Styles and Manuals

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 533
  Yes, learning styles exist, and Mike Caulfield makes good sense reframing how we should think about them. "Rather than argue about whether we should tailor specific instruction to learning style, presumably so students can better regurgitate material into blue books, why not create environments that function more like ...
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• Learning styles gets academic attention

  
  Teach Effectively! — Authority: 415
  Writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education under the headline “Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students,” David Glenn describes the hook of a forth-coming paper the examines the popular, but unsupported, notion that instruction must be differentiated according to personal characteristics ...
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• Student Conversation Starter

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 515
  Todays episode of CNN Student News has a short segment in which there is a discussion about the differences in the ways in which male and female students learn. The segment talks about the idea of all male or all female middle schools. This segment could be a good prompt for getting students to reflect and discuss ...
  2 weeks ago

• Social media and activism: I wrote an essay… honest!

  
  johninnit — Authority: 99
  I’m not too proud of having been a lousy student. I don’t think I ever got an assignment in on time, and really found it a struggle to get much information out of libraries or lectures and into my head. Of course, since leaving uni for the world of work, I’ve found a big sop [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Leadership’s Future: Test Prep for Kindergarten

  
  Leadership Turn — Authority: 428
  Manhattan, home of Wall Street, financial sorcery, hyper-competitiveness—and tutoring for 3 and 4-year-olds. This story is one of the saddest I’ve read lately. That is an age when a child should spend time being a child, exploring their world, running around, creating imaginary worlds, friends, situations and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Roller Coaster Days

  
  Red Sea School — Authority: 111
  Ah, just as we are settling into our home and getting used to some new routines — BOOM! — the holidays hit and those tender shoots draw back until sometime after the first of the year. Still, learning happens, and it’s interesting to observe what sticks even when I don’t seem to have the energy or mental ...
  3 weeks ago

• Search engines fast becoming part of learning process

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Nov 22 (ANI): A new study has revealed that search engines are no longer just part of our daily routines, as they are fast becoming a part of our learning process.Penn State researchers sought to discover the cognitive processes underlying searching.They examined the search habits of 72 participants while ...
  5 weeks ago

• Roger Schank’s Top 10 Mistakes in Education

  
  Ed Tech Journeys — Authority: 448
  Roger Schank has some serious ideas to offer education reformers at his web site Engines for Education. Engines for Education is a nonprofit organization founded by Roger Schank , whose goal is to radically change our notions of school. If you haven’t visited his website, please do. It is well worth it. ...
  5 weeks ago

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