video notes and claims

Identify a claim that makes the most sense to me re why learning styles don't exist

Video notes
different people, different ways of learning
recall visual memories when thinking of pictures
recall sounds of people's voices
movement - remember an experience

visual learner, auditory learner. scientifically true people have difference preferences of receiving information
theory - explain or predict phenomena. experiment performed: visual learners - learn better from pictures
auditory learning - learn better from hearing
results don't prove above. hearing things or seeing things (experiment) taught descriptions, not meanings. in reality when asking someone to remember words, asking them to remember meaning. teachers want students to learn meaning, not descriptions.

Claim: Although it is true that different people have different preferences for receiving and retaining information, it is not true that optimal learning requires adherence to learning style theory. The nature of the content is what determines how it is to be presented to students. Incorporating a variety of instruction methods is good to peak interest and solidify concepts, but there is no evidence to support differentiating instruction to accommodate different learning styles.


Identify a claim that makes the most sense to me re MI theory 

sudents don't retain what they learn. needs to recreate data in own mind, interpretation to remember it
theory developed - human beings have different kinds of intellectual strengths: think logical, spatially, actively. our education system not fair to different ways of thinking.
everything can be taught, understood more than one way: variety of resources to learn/teach productively
science ex.: school priorities should be learn to think scientifically, not detail subject matter because it takes time to develop. instead of content based, choose something they're interested in and set about solving the problem: set up experiments, hypotheses, develop scientific method.
students not getting knowledge can actually use

assessments wrong. make expectations explicit then provide feedback. students internalize and learn from it, less and less feedback will be needed. student based vs. current teacher based system.  instead of traditional testing,  need variety of ways to demonstrate knowledge, not strictly traditional testing...addresses multiple forms of learning

Claim: The 'One size fits all' conventional style of teaching does not work for true learning (retention of knowledge outside of school). Individuals have multiple intelligence styles therefore a variety of methods should be used in the classroom to engage all students. A paradigm shift is needed in how we approach the education process to make learning more productive.