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Learning Styles Debunked: There is No Evidence Supporting Auditory and Visual Learning,... - 2 views

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    A metastudy of research on Learning Styles and the conclusions
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Why learning styles don't exist, by Daniel Willingham | NeuroBollocks - 1 views

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    Why learning styles don't exist
Daniel Barber

Evidence Based EFL: Learning styles: facts and fictions - 0 views

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    Learning styles: facts and fictions
Daniel Barber

Learning styles… a load of rubbish? | One Year in the Life of an English Teacher - 0 views

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    Learning styles - links to academic papers, also Multiple Intelligences
Daniel Barber

Should we be using learning styles? - LSRC_LearningStyles.pdf - 2 views

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    Huge and comprehensive report on learning styles, with some very positive things to say about them.
Daniel Barber

Change Magazine - September-October 2010 - 1 views

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    There is no credible evidence that learning styles exist
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Taylor & Francis Online :: Neuromythologies in education - Educational Research - Volum... - 2 views

  • label children with V, A and K shirts
  • What is possibly more insidious is that focusing on one sensory modality flies in the face of the brain's natural interconnectivity. VAK
  • input modalities in the brain are interlinked: visual with auditory; visual with motor; motor with auditory; visual with taste; and so on.
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  • the brain sees with its ears and touch, and hears with its eyes.
  • as primates, we are predominantly processors of visual information.
  • Eating does not engage just taste, but smell, tactile (inside the mouth), auditory and visual sensations
  • Learning a language, and the practice of it, requires the coordinated use of visual, auditory and kinaesthetic modalities, in addition to memory, emotion, will, thinking and imagination
  • There is indeed such a neural concourse, in the parieto-temporo-occipital ‘association’ cortex in each cerebral hemisphere
  • Fortunately, many teachers have not been taken in. Ironically, VAK has become, in the hands of practitioners, a recipe for a mixed-modality pedagogy where lessons have explicit presentations of material in V, A and K modes. Teachers quickly observed that their pupils' so-called learning styles were not stable, that the expressions of V-, A- and K-ness varied with the demands of the lessons, as they should
  • extrapolations from the lab to the classroom need to be made with considerable caution
  • The coloured blobs on brain maps representing areas of significant activation (so-called ‘lighting up’) are like the peaks of sub-oceanic mountains which rise above sea level
  • considerable complexity.
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  • the images are the end-result of many years' work on understanding the quantum mechanics of nuclear magnetic resonance phenomena, the development of the engineering of superconducting magnets, the application of inverse fast Fourier transforms to large data sets and the refinement of high-speed computing hardware and software to analyse large data sets across multiple parameters.
  • these neural contributions to intelligence are necessary for all school subjects, and all other aspects of cognition
  • no individual modules in the brain which correspond directly to the school curriculum
  • Neuromyths typically ignore such interconnectivity in their pursuit of simplicity
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    An academic paper and review of neuromyths. Some very positive things to say and some fantastic quotes!
Daniel Barber

Evidence Based EFL - 0 views

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    Excellent blog for Bad Science ELT! Greta on learning styles, NLP, etc
Daniel Barber

Visual Learners Convert Words To Pictures In The Brain And Vice Versa, Says Psychology ... - 2 views

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    Some truth in learning styles? Research suggests self-described visual learners more likely to convert linguistically presented information into a visual mental representation.
Daniel Barber

Could 'learning styles' tests do more harm than good? | Education | The Guardian - 7 views

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    Multiple Intelligence criticism by Frank Coffield
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PsycNET - Display Record - 0 views

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    More empirical evidence that LS just aren't there!
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Medical Xpress: Research sheds new light on the hierarchy of the senses - 0 views

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    Occulocentrism evidence - Another nail in the coffin for LS. vision ranks first and hearing ranks in second place, followed by the subordinate senses of touch, taste and smell.
Daniel Barber

Neuromyths and why they persist in the classroom · Blog · Sense about Science - 3 views

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    Another overview looking at neuromyths in education and why they persist
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Myths about how the brain works have no place in the classroom | Dr Hilary Leevers | Sc... - 4 views

  • potential impact on education is wide-ranging
  • natural sleep pattern
  • rigorous scientific evidence are surprisingly scarce
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    Yeah! What she says! This article published Jan 2014 just about sums it up
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