Felder & Soloman: Learning Styles and Strategies - 0 views
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REFLECTIVE
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you gain understanding of material by hearing classmates' explanations and you learn even more when you do the explaining.
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intuitors may be better at grasping new concepts and are often more comfortable than sensors with abstractions
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intuitors don't like "plug-and-chug" courses that involve a lot of memorization and routine calculations.
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Verbal learners get more out of words--written and spoken explanations. Everyone learns more when information is presented both visually and verbally.
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Global learners tend to learn in large jumps, absorbing material almost randomly without seeing connections, and then suddenly "getting it."
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global learners may be able to solve complex problems quickly or put things together in novel ways once they have grasped the big picture, but they may have difficulty explaining how they did it.
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strengthen your global thinking skills by relating each new topic you study to things you already know.
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your understanding of how it connects to other topics and disciplines may enable you to apply it in ways that most sequential thinkers would never dream of.