Hey all -- thank you so much for raising awareness of this. As you might tell from my initial post, I wrote a tweet and went from that to post within a short spell of time, so this was definitely a spontaneous posting. I should have done more research and I didn't.
And I can't thank you all enough for sharing your comments and providing me more links to educate myself! Deeply appreciate this discussion and hope you all keep sharing.
In the meantime, I added an update to my post above (see "Read This First") to share these resources and hopefully make this a teachable moment for me and others. I do think that there are different ways that people CAN learn (visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic being ALTERNATIVES or TOOLS that help us) - and where I went wrong was to assume that we each had a default LEARNER style that was individually optimal. The data shows no scientific evidence of this but rather that all of us are multi-modal and capable of using any style necessary.
What makes specific styles successful is likely a combination of context (certain styles better for learning certain things) and practice (my preference for visual makes me use those tools more, which in turn might create learning habits that appear more successful).
My bigger takeaway is this - that learning is about trying things and learning from all our experiences. And learning "in public" has the benefit of being able to leverage community intelligence like this, to course-correct faster. So thank you 😍🙏🏽
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Hey all -- thank you so much for raising awareness of this. As you might tell from my initial post, I wrote a tweet and went from that to post within a short spell of time, so this was definitely a spontaneous posting. I should have done more research and I didn't.
And I can't thank you all enough for sharing your comments and providing me more links to educate myself! Deeply appreciate this discussion and hope you all keep sharing.
In the meantime, I added an update to my post above (see "Read This First") to share these resources and hopefully make this a teachable moment for me and others. I do think that there are different ways that people CAN learn (visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic being ALTERNATIVES or TOOLS that help us) - and where I went wrong was to assume that we each had a default LEARNER style that was individually optimal. The data shows no scientific evidence of this but rather that all of us are multi-modal and capable of using any style necessary.
What makes specific styles successful is likely a combination of context (certain styles better for learning certain things) and practice (my preference for visual makes me use those tools more, which in turn might create learning habits that appear more successful).
My bigger takeaway is this - that learning is about trying things and learning from all our experiences. And learning "in public" has the benefit of being able to leverage community intelligence like this, to course-correct faster. So thank you 😍🙏🏽