6/2/11

Assignment 3.3 - Information Overload

As I was reading Victor Hugor’s blogs, I came across the blog “Learning Styles Don’t Exist?”  Mr. Hugor must have read my mind, because this was topic that I was going to write about for my assignment this week!  I must say that by reading all the information on Learning Styles throughout this course, I am now on information overload!!  The facts are that people learn in different ways and have a preferred style of learning.  But are these really facts?  I’m beginning to think the answer is “no”.  I had to think about this for a minute.  How is it that I learn best?  I am a visual learner.  Yep, that’s me.  But wait!  I now realize that if I combined the styles (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic), I would learn that much more!  So what does that mean?  Do learning styles really exist?  A week ago, I would have said “absolutely!”  Today, I’m not so sure….