Why The Learning Styles Myth Persists And How It Damages Learning
New paper shows that learning style labels create harmful educational hierarchies
No, it's not "the learning styles myth week" here at Bemusings. But...
Touloumakos et al (2023) provide yet more evidence against the idea of learning styles
The Myth of Individual Learning Styles, Dr. Robert Bjork
We have all heard people claim to be "visual learners," "auditory learners," or some other type of learner. The belief that people have their own individual ...
Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Does Tailoring Instruction to “Learning Styles” Help Students Learn?
The Biggest Myth In Education
You are not a visual learner — learning styles are a stubborn myth. Part of this video is sponsored by Google Search.Special thanks to Prof. Daniel Willingha...
Finding No Evidence for Learning Styles
An extensive literature exists that describes how to categorize students by a plethora of learning styles, including recommendations for teachers on how to match curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment to optimize student learning. Two recent review articles are discussed, both of which conclude that no experimental evidence exists to support the hypothesis that instruction designed in response to student learning styles can actually improve achievement.
The learning styles myth (based on Pashler et al., 2008; Nancekivell et al., 2020) - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching
One idea that I encounter a lot in higher education workshops is the idea of learning styles: that some people are “visual learners” that learn best by looking at visual representations of information, and other people that learn best from reading, or from listening to lectures, and that those are traits we are born with. […]
Danielle M Hinton 👩🏻🏫🇦🇺🦘 on Twitter
An awesome way to commence 2021 #Thanks @arunzpradhan #dielearningstylesdie 🤣 pic.twitter.com/20FWwLjaHJ— Danielle M Hinton 👩🏻🏫🇦🇺🦘 (@hintondm) January 1, 2021