“Learning styles” refer to a range of competing, contested theories that claim to account for differences in individuals’ learning. This includes the idea of “multiple intelligences.”
This idea has influenced education despite the lack of evidence that learning styles are real, or even that identifying a student’s learning style produces better outcomes.
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I find it interesting that things like learning styles make their way into education fairly easily, but research rarely finds its way to the field in a timely manner. I am not sure how to fix that, but it is an issue.
@c_leece @KaiserScience @edutooters @science @scienceteachers It's the packaging. When you share successful research based instructional strategies and only share them in a scripted format meant for journal publication, you're not gong to capture the audience you need: practicing educators. But if you tie instructional approaches or strategies up in nice packages easily presentable to practicing educators in bite-size chunks of an hour or two with inspiring stories of how the strategy worked in actual classrooms, you meet teachers where they are at their point of need - they are looking for practical, implementable solutions. Research based or not, if it's presented by an outside entity by an engaging facilitator, it's going to influence educators far more than stuffy journal articles.
