Learning Styles on the Web
Background:
Many administrators are trying to incorporate insights about individualized learning into the classroom. The Web has various resources that could help in formulating training in individualized learning. Below are sites detailing with learning styles, multiple intelligences, and other topics related to individualized learning.
This site includes a description of learning styles as well as a 36 point inventory and a resource guide. A commercial and informational vehicle for the Center for New Discoveriess in Learning, it is practical and applicable.
2. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Applied to Learning Styles:
This site summarizes the MBTI’s teaching on learning and suggests teacher methods to reach each individual style. It is part of a document on the Master Teacher Program at Georgia State University.
3. How to Identify Your Best Learning Styles
This is a simplified, multi-school learning styles inventory which could easily be shared with a student to help that student understand personal own learning strengths and put them into use. This type of information is especially valuable for the secondary school administrator.
4. Edutainment and Individualizing Learning
This site deals with the relationship between several edutainment software programs and individual learning styles. It also discusses the difference between active and passive learning and how to promote active learning through computer use. It is not an in-depth discussion.
5. Dr. Mills on Learning Styles
One surprising result of this web search was that of our own professor’s web page. Dr. Mills has an article on the topic in his section for teachers. He provides some sites to check out, which are already in hypertext form. In addition he provides a helpful discussion of the learning styles concepts "abstract" and "sequential" (Gregoric, 1982). Don’t miss this site. (Some of the site links have already been listed above.)
6. Learning Styles: Preferences
This site, which is updated by Jessica Blackmore, deals with both Kolb’s theory of learning styles and Gardner’s of multiple intelligences. It provides simple but helpful explanations.
About the Author: Karen J. Ristuccia is a graduate of Philadelphia College of Bible Graduate School in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. She directs a homeschool cell in Princeton, NJ. Her email is: mristuccia@aol.com
[Ed. Note: The original article had 25 active links. Sadly, the
nature of the Internet itself makes it impossible to guarantee that good links will be
there. Try performing an extensive Boolean Search to see what is current, i.e.,
learning AND styles NOT books]
This page was last updated on: March 19, 2001