What sort of learner are you?
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Like most people with ADD I'm a kinesthetic learner. Holly, you have my sympathy. My boss' favorite words to me are, "you need to write this down so you don't forget" which works well as long as I remember to go back and check my notepad occasionally. 
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To be accurate, these are called learning modalities, and we ALL use all three. There are also learning styles. Everyone learns through all three modalities, but tend towards one over the others. I am visual/kinesthetic/auditory. However, there are some subjects I learn better through one over the other. If you really want to teach or learn, involve all three in the lesson.
I am a teacher by profession. I've done my fair share of research into learning theory. Over the year our natural modalities don't really change. What happens is we adapt. For instance, there may be a very figidy child who is kinesthetic, but with help and encouragement really learns to adapt to teachers who mostly teach to visual students. That child can actually become a decent student but not because his modality changed. He learned to
adapt.
In the same right, we all can and should strengthen our weaker modalities. You simply practice using them.
I am a teacher by profession. I've done my fair share of research into learning theory. Over the year our natural modalities don't really change. What happens is we adapt. For instance, there may be a very figidy child who is kinesthetic, but with help and encouragement really learns to adapt to teachers who mostly teach to visual students. That child can actually become a decent student but not because his modality changed. He learned to
adapt.
In the same right, we all can and should strengthen our weaker modalities. You simply practice using them.
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Jordache, if we want to have even totally more fun and confuse them even more, lets mention how each of these modalities are actually broken down further into nine different types of intelligences.
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On a side note, I was also halfway tempted to mention that teachers are taught to use a variety of learning methods in order to reach all the different variations of intelligences.
Also, here's a tip, if your in a lecture, the best way to retain information is to write it down, because technically, you are incorporating all three methods of learning. The audio is listening to the lecture, kinesthetic is the writing of the notes, and visual is seeing what you wrote. And then when you get home, rewrite your notes, so you can organize them. (Sorry, it's the Study Skills teacher in me coming out.)
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On a side note, I was also halfway tempted to mention that teachers are taught to use a variety of learning methods in order to reach all the different variations of intelligences.
Also, here's a tip, if your in a lecture, the best way to retain information is to write it down, because technically, you are incorporating all three methods of learning. The audio is listening to the lecture, kinesthetic is the writing of the notes, and visual is seeing what you wrote. And then when you get home, rewrite your notes, so you can organize them. (Sorry, it's the Study Skills teacher in me coming out.)
I don't quite know. I am somewhat visual. I've been told I have a very unorthodox way of doing & fixing things. I don't compartmentalize (this only works with that, & nothing else). I've been been made fun of & called Mcgyver for the way I come up with ideas to fix things. I see it in my mind, so I guess it's visual.
To be honest, I think it's both.
Beware, I'm going to go nutritional and kinda scientific and slightly conspiracy theorist on everyone.
Some of it has to do with kids being fed junk and the parents let them do whatever and wonder, "What's wrong with my kid?" so it's off to the doc! And boom they get diagnosed and drugged up. (Yeah kinda blunt but I've seen it happen.)
The other part is, because of all the chemicals (food or non-food) we take in our body (like the pills and drugs they have out today) and because of the foods out there being junk and is harmful to us, I truly believe it's corrupted people's bodies and people's kids are paying the price for it, in the way that something in the kid's brain is not developing properly.
(I'm not claiming any of this to be 100% factual and true, just some thing I've observed, learned, thought over, and seen.)
Beware, I'm going to go nutritional and kinda scientific and slightly conspiracy theorist on everyone.
Some of it has to do with kids being fed junk and the parents let them do whatever and wonder, "What's wrong with my kid?" so it's off to the doc! And boom they get diagnosed and drugged up. (Yeah kinda blunt but I've seen it happen.)
The other part is, because of all the chemicals (food or non-food) we take in our body (like the pills and drugs they have out today) and because of the foods out there being junk and is harmful to us, I truly believe it's corrupted people's bodies and people's kids are paying the price for it, in the way that something in the kid's brain is not developing properly.
(I'm not claiming any of this to be 100% factual and true, just some thing I've observed, learned, thought over, and seen.)