Learning styles

[wearestardust]

Originally Posted by Crocodile

If there was a link to atheism and learning styles though I would have noticed a big change when I became atheist.

What exactly is a kinetic learner though? It sounds very mechanical.

you will have noted that the term is "kinesthetic".

I had been taught in the past that learning style is also age-related; adult learning should have a major kinesthetic component. So they told me.

[eclectic]

Originally Posted by wearestardust

you will have noted that the term is "kinesthetic".

I had been taught in the past that learning style is also age-related; adult learning should have a major kinesthetic component. So they told me.

Surely 'learning style' depends on what you're learning? To learn to do something physical, then I don't understand how it can be learnt any other way than physically doing. (although I would still like instructions and a full understanding of the process first)

[Praxis]

Originally Posted by eclectic

Surely 'learning style' depends on what you're learning? To learn to do something physical, then I don't understand how it can be learnt any other way than physically doing. (although I would still like instructions and a full understanding of the process first)

Indeed this is true. I didn't learn to play pool by listening to someone tell me about it

I think they're generalised terms for how people best learn overall. I'm a tad sceptical of these label things though, in the same way as I'm quite sceptical about all that Myers-Briggs personality type stuff, etc.

[Seamus]

Originally Posted by Crocodile

And I was right. It is very mechanical. In fact so mechanical I actually learned a few things after flying off my motorcycle at 40km/h a long time ago.

At age 22 I was stationed in Malaysia. I had a BSA 250 for a few weeks. One Sunday afternoon, Malay friend borrowed it without my permission and without a helmet. He took a corner too fast and hit a lamp post. He was killed instantly. I learned more than I wanted to know about motor bikes. Haven't been on one since. (apart from a BSA 650 ex police bike,as passenger,in 1971. Scared the shit out of me)

[atheist_angel]

Hey Conf. Why do you not participate in your own thread? It's rude to start a thread and just go AWOL like that. Are you ah one post wonder?

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

@AA: Good point.

[Caio]

I don’t think there would be any learning style correlation…perhaps thought patterns and characteristics such as critical thinking, a questioning mind and some others would have a greater correlation, but I would think that this would be independent to the individuals thinking and learning styles.
That said I have ADD so learning is difficult for me unless it actually interests me, and I don’t have any real preference to a learning style, it depends on what I’m learning. When I was learning to arc weld, I had to go and do it and get some hands on experience, but when I’m at uni studying chemistry for example, I’m quite happy to visualize the process and don’t need a model to help with that.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

I have autism which also makes learning difficult for me. The problem here is that if people just tell me stuff I will find it hard to understand. If people involve me with stuff then I will understand.

Like for instance in university I am finding it excruciating and tough to learn even the simplest of mathematics while the others can do it within microseconds.

And I am having trouble trying to study for 5 minutes without being distracted yet the others stay up all night studying their arses off.

Helps being autistic doesn't it? I suppose ADD would have similar effects?

[TÐöer]

Oh it doesn't matter, if he's a one time poster. The OP is worth thinking about.

My learning style, was to question everything. Including the text book. And because of this, sometimes, I may appear to be, slow, but actually, it's because 101 questions that poped up in my head.

eg. Did you just make a mistake? Could you have meant something else?

It seems to be too boring if someone were to say the obvious so, I'd end up, with asking worst case scenarios on what they meant, and people usually gets irritated.

I'm visual like you croc.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

I used to have problems and teachers used to tell me to stop asking too many questions (particularly in physics and some other subjects I can't remember now) otherwise I would "confuse the other students" as they said. The "I can't help it if everyone else is such a n00b" style thought came into my head.