Learning Styles

So, I just completed a learning style questionarie at this website http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html

From this I found out that I am very much an active and visual learner (which I kind of already knew).

This means I like group work and mixing with others and when it comes to various hands on/work it out sort of projects, I prefer to just have a go and see if it works or not rather than thinking it through.
For me this is probably because there is more action that way and altermately more excitment.
Also because I'm a visual learner with a rating of 11 on the scale (which is the highest rating) I always understand more and learn better if I can see a picture of diagram which helps to explain the concept. However, this also means I tend to always be looking around the classroom, seeing what's going on outside or fiddling with something instead of listening to the lecture. I just kind of zone out of what I'm suppose to be learning and focus on what ever seems to be more important at the time (such as the ibis outside the window).

So, pretty much what I can gather as a LM and focusing now on how this applies to classrooms is the following:

1. Learning styles are very important in the classroom. Everyone learns differently and the LM should be aware of how their learners learn best. Not only the teacher but students also benefit from knowing how they learn best.
2. From knowing how learners learn best it makes the LMs job more easy. Why? Because it helps the students to focus on the information being taught if it is intune with their personal learning style. E.G. I pretty much zoned out in the first section of my E-learning lecture because it was just talking (auditory - not my preferred learning style). However, as soon as the lecturer started to use the smartboard and I saw the pretty cool things it could do I was hooked and therefore listened and learned.
3. It's not that difficult to cater for different learning styles when using ITCs. Using interactive websites for students can have them visually captured by the images and the written words, auditory learners catered for by the interactive sound the accompanies the program and the kinaesthetic learners are learning by doing and interacting with the ITCs. It's really a win-win situation for the students and teacher.

So, if you are a student or teacher or just a random on the internet just checking out this blog and you're not to sure on what your learning style is, just check out this website to help you out. http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-styles-quiz