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Task 2 – Learning
Styles
Academic Year 2012/2013
Personal Development and Careers
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Module Topics
Week Topic Book chapter
1 Learning, skills and employment 1+2
2 Managing your learning: Learning styles 3
3 Library workshop 8+15
4 Reading and note taking 4
5 Working in diverse groups 10
6 Giving effective oral presentations 11
7 Presentations
8 Presentations
9 Written communication 6
10 Problem solving 12+15
11 Using excel 7+14
12 Planning to improve skills 17
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By the end of the session, you should be
able to:
• Define what „learning‟ is;
• Be able to understand the difference between the
traditional/modern view on learning
• Identify and understand your own learning style
• Know what strategies you can implement to
improve your learning approach
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• Reduce knowledge to
„information‟ – acquire
„facts‟
•„Textbook syndrome‟
• Is this helpful for you?
What is learning? Traditional
view
Lecturer
Student
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Learn and
regurgitate what
you‟ve been told
Desire to
understand, active
interest in subject
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“Learning is purposeful activity aimed at acquisition of skills,
knowledge and
ways of thinking that improve effectiveness in future situations”
(Cameron, 2009: 51)
How would you define learning?
Modern view
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Model of how ideas & experience are
integrated
Learning is circular, not one-off process
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Adapted from
Cameron, 2008: 54)
Experience
Reflect
Theorise
Act
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ACTIVIST
THEORIST
REFLECTOR
PRAGMATIST
Honey and Mumford (1986)
Learning Styles
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Advantages/disadvantages of each
approach
You are able to implement strategies to
amend your approach
You can begin to understand how you learn
best
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ACTIVIST – “Let’s do it”
Strengths Weaknesses
• Flexible and open-minded
• Happy to „have a go„
• Enjoys new situations
• Optimistic about anything new
• Highly sociable
• Likes small group discussions
• Takes the immediately obvious
course of action without
weighing up other possibilities
• Does too much themselves
• Takes unnecessary risks
• Goes into action without enough
preparation
• Gets bored with implementation &
consolidation
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REFLECTOR “Stand back”
Strengths Weaknesses
•Careful
• Thorough and methodical
• Thoughtful
• Good at listening and assimilating
information
• Rarely jumps to conclusions
• Listens before speaking
• Likes to use journals and
brainstorming
• Lectures are helpful if they
provide expert explanations
• Holds back from direct
participation
• Slow to make up their mind
and reach a decision
• Too cautious, does not take
enough risks
• Not assertive
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THEORIST “Think”
Strengths Weaknesses
• Thinks things through in
logical steps
• Objective
• Analyses and synthesises
• Rational approach
• Likes lectures, models,
case studies, and readings
• Problems with creativity
• Spend too much time planning
• Problem with applying
theoretical aspects in real
situation
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Pragmatist “Plan the next step”
Strengths Weaknesses
• Loves new ideas provided they
can be put into practice
• Practical: Likes to apply what
one has learned
• Down-to-earth
• Likes laboratories, field work,
and observations
• Leaps to practical solutions to
problems without thinking about
conceptual underpinning or
whether more creative approach
might be possible
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What learning style do YOU have?
Before you fill in the learning style questionnaire:
Before you fill in the learning style questionnaire:
-What do you think - which learning style do YOU
have?
- Write this down on a piece of paper and compare
whether this is really your learning style
-What do you think - which learning style do YOU
have?
- Write this down on a piece of paper and compare
whether this is really your learning style
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For the portfolio….TASK 2
– Follow the instructions given
- Give the task a heading
Completed questionnaire
Spreadsheet
Completed cross-diagram
Conclusion
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Do you prefer to
learn by:
Visual
Auditory
Tactile
kinaesthetic
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Why is this important?
Identify 5 different demands on
you at University compared to
school…
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In groups of 4, discuss how you can
change from one learning style, to
another?