Sunday, April 17, 2011

Learning Styles Assignment.

We're learning about how we learn. I, apparently am a visual learner. I started doing this and realized something while typing it out. Here's a link to the questionnaire thatdetermines what type of learner you are.

http://www.wiley.com/college/msci/callister320137/ils/

This is my report:

"I am a 100% visual learner with with very little amount of proficiency in any other learning style. I've always known this, and I feel that through the years my visual learning has strengthened while any other way of learning style has weakened. Since everything on the computer is visual, even the lectures, an online learning environment would be ideal for someone like me. Knowing that I'm visual learning I can apply a strategy to non visual environments in order to better understand the material. It makes sense that I'm a visual artist.

I need to write out everything in order for me to remember it perfectly. This has it's ups and downs. The good thing is that I can remember just about every word I write, if it's hand written, not typed. The downside is that it takes quite a while, and it's exhausting mentally. Another way is by rereading the material four or five times, about as slow as I can, almost to memorize the images of letters in my head. This has it's obvious down falls. For one this more stressful then writing. This also isn't as affective.

In order for me to remember, or even study, I need to do one of these two things. This finds me flying through everything, just to get things done. The effort required for me to study may be why I procrastinate although I know that it's something that with practice will slowly, over time, get easier. I never wanted to do the work in school, not because I couldn't, but because I got tired of the repetition, and grew impatient. Learning patients may solve most of my problems."