Learning Styles

Learning Styles Don't Exist

• You don't learn in 3 ways, you store information in 3 ways. For instance, you store images visually, voices auditorally, and how to ride a bicycle kinesthetically. 
• Most of what teachers try to convey is meaning based, not visual or audible based.
• The prediction that people who recall things visually will always learn better visually, is not true. 
• You cannot assume that a person will always learn better visually if they understood one concept after being shown a visual example. In reality, they may have just needed one more example for the concept to click, or the visual analogy was simply a good one. This doesn't mean that this student needs a visual example for every concept to learn better.

Multiple Types of Intelligence

• Human beings have different kinds of intellectual strengths. These strengths are important when learning and creating.
• Education is unfair to students because it only caters to one kind of learner if the information is always presented in the same manner.
• By creating a learning environment which presents information in different ways that creates personal experiences for the students, it allows the child to represent their understanding in a way that is comfortable to them. The child learns then from personal experience which relies on their intelligence style, rather than a cookie cutter list of definitions and concepts that the student may be disconnected from.

According to The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, learning-style theory has its roots in the psychoanalytic community; multiple intelligences theory is the fruit of cognitive science and reflects an effort to rethink the theory of measurable intelligence embodied in intelligence testing. 

Both, in fact, combine insights from biology, anthropology, psychology, medical case studies, and an examination of art and culture. But learning styles emphasize the different ways people think and feel as they solve problems, create products, and interact. The theory of multiple intelligences is an effort to understand how cultures and disciplines shape human potential. Though both theories claim that dominant ideologies of intelligence inhibit our understanding of human differences, learning styles are concerned with differences in the process of learning, whereas multiple intelligences center on the content and products of learning.