My learning style

I recently (as in five minutes ago =P) completed a test on Memletics website to see what sort of learner I am. This is the graph of my results, and the following are the specific number results.

Style Scores

Visual	8
Social	17
Physical	9
Aural	14
Verbal	13
Solitary	7
Logical	8

This is also the descriptions of each learning style (with links to do further study):

• Visual (spatial). You prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding.
• Aural (auditory-musical). You prefer using sound and music.
• Verbal (linguistic). You prefer using words, both in speech and writing.
• Physical (kinesthetic). You prefer using your body, hands and sense of touch.
• Logical (mathematical). You prefer using logic, reasoning and systems.
• Social (interpersonal). You prefer to learn in groups or with other people.
• Solitary (intrapersonal). You prefer to work alone and use self-study.

(Advanogy.com 2007)

As you can see, I am mostly a social, aural and verbal learner. This means I need to talk about my work with groups of people. It means I need sound to work, I cannot work without music. I also prefer to have things explained to me.

I believe the results reflect my personality perfectly. I would recommend this to my fellow educators to use this test for your students. This is a perfect way to profile how your students learn, and in turn will help you create better lessons to best cater for your students.

References:

Advanogy.com (2007) Free Learning Styles Inventory - Results. Accessed 28 July 2010, from http://www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory/results.asp

The Functionality of a Blog

The functionality of a blog can easily change the way that learners of today absorb information. Blogs are able to cater many different types of information in one simple way. A blog does not only have to have text, it can have audio clips, images and videos, demonstrations, graphs etc. A single blog is able to hold any and all of the above on one single entry, however this can be very confusing.

The blog also allows for the educator to accomodate many different learning styles. The visual learners are able to read and absorb information from the blog. The auditory learners are able to learn from all of the audio clips. The kinaesthetic learners have the option of watching demonstrations and trying to do these themself.

The blog is a perfect multimodal platform for today's educators, as it allows them to add all different types of information into one medium, and also keep students interesting by incorporating the use of ICTs.