Reflections of Week 9-What is Your Learning Style

It was again a busy and interesting week.

The first target was to submit our Final Project  after using our partner's suggestions.

It was a great experience.I was fortunate to have Ina and Mary as my project partners.Peer review of project report helped all of us a lot.

Finally I submitted my project on Integrating Technology and Task Based approach of Teaching for training students for campus selection process .

This week our course instructor Courtney asked a question and guided us to find an answer.

The question was-"What kind of learner are you?" 

I could not stop myself from taking this quiz on What is your Learning Style-I was really excited to know about myself.

I enjoyed doing this quiz.Here are my results:

Rajkumarsingh’s Learning Style Results

 from Edutopia:

What's Your Learning Style?

Linguistic 58%

Logical-Mathematical 50%

Visual-Spatial 58%

Intrapersonal 63%

Interpersonal 69%

Musical 38%

Bodily-Kinesthetic 33%

Naturalistic 67%

These results reflect my learning style.I would recommend everyone to find out.

After this you can read a very comprehensive and concise explanation of each learning style and how to cater to the needs of different learners.

You can find these details on http://www.edutopia.org/your-learning-styles

Once again we had a great collection of material for our Discussion topics.All these reference materials helped me to develop my viewpoint on the topics of Learning Styles?Multiple Intelligence.I went through all of them.I found some of them very detailed .Here they are for further reference:

• Tech tools that support multiple intelligences:
  http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic68.htm 
  Understanding different learning styles is an important part of effective teaching, with and without technology. 
  
  
• While there are a number of different ways of exploring learning styles, this article from Richard Felder explores the impact of different learning styles on classroom performance:
  http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/styles.htm

• http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-styles-quiz
  
  
• More on learning styles from Richard Felder
  http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Learning_Styles.html
  
  
• Using learning styles to adapt technology for higher education:
  http://www.indstate.edu/cirt/id/pedagogies/styles/learning.html
  
  
• A longer scholarly article that also compares different learning style inventories: Student Learning Styles and Their Implications for Teaching (PDF)
  http://www.crlt.umich.edu/sites/default/files/resource_files/CRLT_no10.pdf
  
  
• Sailing the 5 C's with Learning Strategies: 
  http://www.nclrc.org/sailing/
  
  
• A general article from the New York Times looking at recent research on study habits and learning styles
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/health/views/07mind.html?_r=3&ref=benedict_carey

Technology can help provide a range of learning styles in the classroom. We shared our ideas about ways that we could use technology to address a variety of learning styles in our classes. 

I posted my  few observations on Multiple Intelligence and Technology based on following video of Howard Gardner in our Discussion:

I think that now the time has come when we should give due importance to this wonderful concept of Multiple Intelligence in our course curriculum of language teaching.

Now we are moving towards the last part of our rewarding journey.I will really miss my course instructor Courtney ,this vibrant group and Jupiter Grades which reminds me of my early student days and once again reiterate the fact that you may be any kind of learner but to prove your worth you will have to get higher grades.

Regards

Raj