Visual and Dyslexic Thinking and Learning Styles and the Educational Controversies
Dan Willingham's campaign against common sense continues apace, with yet more coverage (this time in the Washington Post, which has a major business publishing the sort of resource someone who agreed with Willingham might advocate). Willingham's argument is typically presented as "there are no learning styles," but becomes something rather less definite when challenged - something more like Eide's question as to "whether too much burden is placed on teachers to teach toward different learning styles rather than students to identify how they learn best," which is the same point again. But that does not mean there are no learning styles, not that they are unimportant in learning. "The educational literature is rife with differences between dyslexic and non-dyslexic thinking styles," for example, "probably part of the reason so many dyslexics are frustrated in conventionally taught schools." Fernette and Brock Eide, Eide Neurolearning Blog, October 19, 2009. [Link] [Tags: Schools, Online Learning, Books, Learning Styles] [Previous][Next]Comments
Re: Visual and Dyslexic Thinking and Learning Styles and the Educational Controversies
I can say that there are no stars in the sky all day long but when I walk out at night - I see them clearly. One who does not teach is living in the daylight of his/her own supposition and clearly not educating others. As a teacher I and the mother of a dyslexic and ADHD diagnosed children I can say definitively that my children learn differently and if that isn't a style then what is it? To me, this sort of thinking is harmful and just another excuse not to encourage differentiation and the reaching of every child. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]
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oops and that comment was posted by Vicki Davis (forgot to log in.) [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]
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