Clark Quinn on Learning Styles
A retake on learning styles. This is a field that, in my view has been
spinning its wheels in the mud since the LSRC report by Frank Coffield
et al. This is a different
view, that looks at them rather than as characteristics as competencies.Heres the post http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=647.I think it is refreshing. The idea of learning styles always looked clearer when seen as
a set of complementary perspectives, rather than a fixed blueprint of personal characteristics. I
always found it difficult to address the issue when learners said "I'm
really a visual learner" in the same way as people say, for example,
"Im a Leo" and I tended, perhaps a little obtusely, to focus on what
they weren't. The idea being that if they are successful in one area, then they should try to develop others. Isn't that a
teachers responsibility?
Competencies looks like a useful way of looking at it. I wonder how you link
in learners own understandings of their "learning style" to that? Is
that kind of reflection one more competency in the list, a part of the
metacognitive section perhaps, or is it transversal?Downes referred this.
