Reading Reflections: Learning Styles
Reading Reflections: Learning Styles
Learning Enhancement & Academic Development Service
Date: Friday 24 November 2017
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
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Speaker: LEADS staff
Website: www.glasgow.ac.uk/leads/events
This month our reading reflection is on the topic of Learning Styles. We will begin by watching a short video together, and then discussing some of the issues arising from it, such as:
- Why is the myth of learning styles so prevalent?
- What are the consequences of believing in learner styles?
- Can we make sense of learning preferences, rather than learning styles?
Join us for our monthly “journal club”, where we watch a short video or read a short article on a topical issue together, discuss the various questions arising and then think about how me might adapt our teaching practice to address these, and what sort of support we’d find useful.
Tea and coffee will be provided and you are welcome to bring your lunch with you.
Sessions are booked for 90 minutes to allow for a decent length of discussion, but you are welcome to leave earlier if you like.
The video we’ll be watching this month is Don’t believe everything you think, by Tesia Marwick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6P-xImCVYo
(there’s a longer version here if you’re interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=855Now8h5Rs)
If you’d like to do some light reading around the subject, here’s a few suggestions:
Hood, B. et al (2017) No evidence to back idea of learning styles. Guardian Letter. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/12/no-evidence-to-back-idea-of-learning-styles
Oxenham, S. (no date) Why the Widespread Belief in 'Learning Styles' Is Not Just Wrong; It's Also Dangerous. Big Think. Available at: http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/why-the-widespread-belief-in-learning-styles-is-not-just-wrong-its-also-dangerous
Riener, C. & Willingham, D. (2010) The Myth of Learning Styles. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 42, 5. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00091383.2010.503139
Strauss, V. (2017) Most teachers believe that kids have different ‘learning styles.’ Here’s why they are wrong. Washington Post Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/09/05/most-teachers-believe-that-kids-have-different-learning-styles-heres-why-they-are-wrong/?utm_term=.11a26d8d601e