[TriLUG] Learning Styles?

[James LewisMoss]

>>>>> On 06 Jun 2002 20:44:57 -0400, Tanner Lovelace <lovelace at wayfarer.org> said:

 Tanner> On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 20:02, James LewisMoss wrote:
 >> Kinetic: learns by doing Auditory: learns by hearing Visual:
 >> learns by seeing (and by this it's not seeing words written that'd
 >> be auditory, but by seeing charts/graphs/etc)

 Tanner> I'm not sure I totally agree with your qualification of that
 Tanner> last one.  I find I learn things much better if, when I'm
 Tanner> listening to something, I visualize how it's written.  This
 Tanner> is especially true with people's names.  If someone just
 Tanner> tells me their name, I'm very likely to forget it.  If,
 Tanner> however, I see it written down, or imagine it written down
 Tanner> when they tell me it, I stand a much greater chance of
 Tanner> remembering it.  So, I must respectfully disagree with your
 Tanner> qualification.

Disagree all you like it doesn't change how they are used.  I guess
Auditory would be better expressed as Verbal, but I've seen both used
to mean the same concept.

Jim

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