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Week 8 Blog - Learning Styles and Group Project

Complete a blog entry about what you have learned since your last blog post. Be sure to include your results from the “What is your Learning Style” quiz. Do you think this assessment gives an accurate view of your learning style?
My Learning Style

According to the learning style quiz, I am not very good at anything in specific.  I have always said that the person I know the least about is myself.  I have always felt such disconnect with my own persona and this makes it difficult for me to know whether if I am being truthful in quizzes like this.  I am linguistic only 33%, logical-mathematical 38%, visual-spatial 42%, intrapersonal 50%, interpersonal 56%, musical 31% (funny because I don’t know anything about music), bodily-kinesthetic 17%, and naturalistic 50%.  I’m just all over the place. 

I would say my learning style is a combination of visual and auditory.  Visual learners like to take notes of lecture and hear oral directions.  I’m big on taking notes.  Auditory learners like to listen to tapes, teach other students, and have conversations with their teachers.  Although I’ve never been big on having conversations with my teachers I do enjoy teaching others.  Auditory learners also learn best from hearing words spoken and from oral presentations and remember new information better by reading aloud, this is definitely me.  This explains why since I was a child, I liked to read aloud.  When I read silently, I don’t retain as much information and I have trouble comprehending the structure of some sentences, then I end up reading the same sentences multiple times.  My parents and co-workers have made fun of me in the past when I’ve been caught reading to myself.  Now I know I’m not crazy!

The other two learning styles we learned about this week is kinesthetic and tactile.  In the kinesthetic learning style, students learn best through experience and by actively participating in class.  The tactile group learns best through physical involvement in class and by writing notes or writing instructions down.  After doing a bit of reading on learning styles, I came to the conclusion that it would be impossible for a teacher or instructional designer to mold the courses to every students’ learning styles.  One of the reading materials I read this week mentions that instead of trying to focus on all the learning styles, teachers should focus on their learning objectives (Petrina, 2007).   Having been learning about course goals and objectives through our group projects, I appreciated and understood this remark a bit more.  Had I read this a few weeks back, I would not have truly understood its significance.  

Group Project
This week we worked on our course description document.  Much of the content our group already has since from the very beginning of this project, as a group, we decided to do as much as possible, even when the assignment did not require as much content.  This gives us a bit of a head start for the next week’s assignments.  The new concepts introduced to me this week were writing the scope of the course and the performance monitoring.  The book didn’t go into much detail regarding a course description but it did provide a couple of examples. 

It doesn’t seem like there is a week 8 group project so our group has decided to work on our week 9 assignment as soon as possible since some of us would like to take some days off during spring break.  We will also take some time to continue working on our Canvas course.  I think most of the learning objectives should be close to 90% complete and might only need a few changes. 
  
References


Petrina, S. (2007). Advanced teaching methods for the technology classroom. Hershey, PA: Information Science Pub

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