Week 1 Learning Activities

If your score on a scale is 1-3, you are fairly well balanced on the two dimensions of that scale.

If your score on a scale is 5-7, you have a moderate preference for one dimension of the scale and will learn more easily in a teaching environment which favors that dimension.

If your score on a scale is 9-11, you have a very strong preference for one dimension of the scale. You may have real difficulty learning in an environment which does not support that preference.

From this information it suggest I was more of an active and sensory learner as I liked group work and I am patient with details and good a memorising facts and doing hands-on (laboratory) work.

From my learning experiences this is correct in some belief. I prefer hands-on learning than sitting down listening to lecture slides. However, I do prefer to have individual assignment tasks than group tasks- only because it is so hard for group meeting times.

This activity was interesting, I have completed a few learning style tests, and most of them have come back saying I am a sensory learner.

For learners in a class some suggestions for each learning style:
Active learners- Allow the students to discuss, apply and explain the knolwedge they have just learnt. Students learn best in groups.
Reflective learners- Allow the students to reflect on what they have learnt- in a reflective journal or a blogg. Students learn best when working alone.
Sensing Learners- Engage students in hands-on activities. Students like learning facts and discovering possiblities.
Intutiive Learners- Students are very innovative and like to work fast.
Visual Learners- Learn best through pictures, graphs, images, diagrams
Verbal Learners- Learn best through reading words and writing
Sequential Learners- Allow students to gain an understanding of the knowledge by step by step instruction
Global Learners- Students learn best by absorbing the knowledge in random order and seeing connections with prior knolwedge.

To gain knowledge of  student learning styles in my class, the following questions could be used:
Do you prefer to build and make something or write the procedure to make or build it?
Do you prefer to work alone or in a group?
Do ever think about what you have learnt?
Do you enjoy reading and writing?
When you complete a puzzle, do you look at the picture on the box or try to complete it without knowing the picutre?

Multiple Intelligences

I completed the multiple intelligence test. It declared I was logical (number smart) than visual/spatial (picture smart). When thinkin about my learners, I need to consider each learners needs and how best they learn. As Gardner states, all learners learn in different ways.

21st Century Learners
I loved this article! It is so true. Since I have been on prac, I have noticed that the students are way more engaged when they are using the computer, when the teacher uses the interactive whiteboard for questions and tasks, when the students get a go on the interactive whiteboard, when the students use the internet for math challenges. But when the students are asked to open their Maths book to page.... There goes the chatter, the disturbances, the "Miss, can I go the toliet." They don't want to be there.
When the students are involved in the technology and equipment they enjoy, they are going to learn by teaching us how to use it as tool to teach the rest of the class and the future!