Chapter Three

What I found most interesting about this chapter was the classifying of three learning modalities: visual; auditory and kinesthetic. Visual learners - the author estimates the percentage at 60% of all learners. Obviously, these are the learners who take in the visual aspects of everything. Teachers respond to them because the visual learners are watching them and appear to be the most engaged. Kinesthetic learners (25%) who need the hands on experience to learn. Sitting and listening is torture for them. These students generally doodle or take notes just to be doing something. Then we have the auditory learners in the minority at 15%. This style of learner enjoys hearing words, listening to books on tape, attending lectures and discussions. What is the most interesting part in the breakdown of these three learning styles is that most teaching is designed for auditory learners even though they make up the minority of all learners. I am a kinesthetic learner with visual tendencies. I always have to doodle. I can't follow audio books, listening to the recorded weather report on the phone (I have to listen over and over again because I start daydreaming) I really don't learn until I do, but pictures help. Would anyone following this blog care to share what type of learner you are? How do you learn? How do you teach? Are they the same?