Monday, December 15, 2014
Blog #3 Learning Styles Response
Blog about doing/creating learning styles activities… I have created so many different learning styles activities over the years. Various task cards to get students playing with concepts, definitions, and various levels of thinking. Other learning styles have included versatiles (really cool activity), flip chutes, electraboards, all kinds of matching games, wrap-arounds, and pic-a-holes. These are great hands-on ways to engage students. If I were doing this assignment, I'd create a wrap-around of all the different types of learning styles you could create and a description of them. As for learning style, I am a mixture of visual and auditory with a major dose of kinesthetic. I lean mostly toward kinesthetic, but I really rely on visual. For pleasure, I am VERY auditory...I am listening to music all the time (right now my playlist is Hozier, Sam Smith, Little Big Town, Pink, O.A.R., Kings of Leon, Mumford & Sons, The Killers, The Avett Brothers). So cool to listen to while working. When I take the survey and every time I re-take it, my learning style is slightly different. I think I'm more visual and linear when a semester starts, but as it progresses, I need more kinesthetic, hands-on activities to keep me engaged, or I get bored. That's part of ADHD me. Your turns! Create your learning styles activities and take the learning styles inventory! Be sure to answer the specific questions I outlined on the homework!
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I thought this activity was really enjoyable. After taking the quiz it total me pretty much what I already knew. I am a visual learner, with a hint of tactile. I learn the best from writing something over and over. Often time in lectures my mind starts to wonder, but I do better when taking short study breaks where i can get up and move around. Im the type of person that I really only listen to music when Im in the car or out at night. Also when studying or doing school work I have to isolate myself, that means no tv playing in the background, music, or people- I really get distracted easy.
ReplyDeleteFor my task cards I made it directed toward my major. I began by taking a handful of different notecards and writing a different sport on the top of each one. In the middle of the notecard I wrote a rule or fact about the sport. And on the bottom of the notecard I wrote a name of someone who is famous in that sport. From there I cut two lines in the notecard, above and below, the middle column and on the back I wrote a self check. No one really thinks about doing task cards in a physical education class, but it would be fun to do it with different rules and instead of using notecards use poster board and spread it out all over the gym.
For my second activity I did a wrap around, but this time I focused on science and the periodic table. On the left hand side of the board I wrote different element symbols and on the right side I wrote the corresponding element name. This was a students could wrap the yarn around the symbol and match it to the name. If a teacher wanted to they could go more in-depth and do the location such on the periodic table.
how did you like what you created?
- I really liked what I created because it could be used for several different age groups and by making it out of poster board and placing it around the gym not only could you involve the visual learner, but the kinesthetic learning by allowing them to move throughout the gym. Maybe even playing music or having each student say allowed what their poster board reads would reach all students and their learning style needs.
First of all, you had a great video! I really enjoyed it! I think you did a very good job explaining what you did, and how you did it. I think students would be able to grasp this information very quickly. I think you even taught me more bout the periodic table than I thought I knew!
DeleteI tend to like the wrap around activity better than any others!
I completely agree with you when it comes to sitting trough lectures. I cant stay focused most of the time when someone is just talking at me. I also thought that it was cool that a lot of these activities could be used for many different ages.
DeleteI really liked your video! You kept me engaged in the video and I liked that concept. I liked how you did two different subjects. Your activities were both really good!
DeleteYour video was really helpful on explaining what you did and how you made them work! I like how you related one of your subjects to what you will be teaching in the future. I think you will come up with some creative ways to keep your kids engaged in the future!
DeleteI really enjoyed making and doing the learning styles activities. I like being crafty and brainstorming of ways to present activities. I really liked what I created.
ReplyDeleteFirst for the task cards, I did simple addition sentences. The amounts are no larger than ten so students of upper kindergarten and first graders could easily do the activity. I made sure to aid in the kinesthetic and visual learners. I put the addition sentence on the first card. On the second card I did a visual of the addition sentence using objects.
For the learning styles activity I created my own. I cut a circle out of cardboard and I stuck with my theme of simple addition sentences. I used clothespins for the answer and clipped them onto the proper place.
Both of my activities had self-check or self-evaluation for the students. For the task card I color coded them. For the learning styles activity I wrote the answers on the back.
My personal learning style is visual. It did not surprise me that I am a visual learner because I already know that I am. If I see someone else demonstrate what they want me to do, I can do it. If I have a paper of instructions, I can follow through with what is expected. If I can see it be done, then I can easily do it.
Your video was really good. I thought both of your activities looked very neat and easy to follow along with. I really liked how you not only did the numbers on the task cards, but that you added the dots. I am the same way with following instruction- if I see someone do it I'm fine, if I have written direction I can follow them, but if someone tells me how to do something all at once and then expects me to do it, most likely I will get lost somewhere in the middle.
DeleteMarissa, great job on your video! I agree with Jennifer that it was very neat and organized! The circle activity was really cool. I don't have near as good as imagination as you do! The addition task cards were a great way for students to learn and understand the material!
DeleteI am definitely a visual learner like you are!
I am slightly more tactile than visual but not by much! I do well with written instructions also and like to watch something be done right in front of me before I take a crack at it.
DeleteI really enjoyed your video. You explained very well what you were doing and how it will help the kids do a self check! I think that was a great idea. Good job!
DeleteI really liked what I created. I love doing hands on activities and making things look nice. I also found that these types of learning styles could be very helpful in the future.
ReplyDeleteI was unable to get my video to load on here, so that was sort of upsetting. Instead, I just took pictures of the front and back of each activity.
The first activity I did was the task cards. Since I am planning on going into social sciences, I decided to do a simple form of geography. I did major city on the first card, the country it was in on the middle card, and the continent on the last card. On the back of the cards, I put colored dots so the students could check to make sure their answers were correct.
For the second activity, I did the learning circles activity from the examples. I did parts of a sentence, and gave the definition on the front of the circle. Then on clothespins, I put the answers to the questions. The students would put the clothespin on the correct question. On the back of the circle, I put the answers so the students could self check when they were done figuring out the answers.
My learning style was pretty even between visual and tactile learning. I wasn't very surprised by this because I know I have to be able to look at and physically touch what I am trying to learn or do. Also, after reading the characteristics that go along with both of the learning styles I could see that some things in both categories really applied to me, while other things in each category were completely the opposite of me. This helped me make more sense of why both categories were so even.
That stinks that your video wouldn't upload- sometimes technology can be frustrating. I did enjoy your activities though. I also agree with you saying that they can be very helpful in the future. I as well am a visual/tactile learner.
DeleteI was having difficulty with my video uploading as well! But I finally figured it out. I really enjoy geography and science of course! The idea you had of the city, country, and then the continent was a perfect way for students to learn the content!
DeleteI was never very good at social sciences maybe I should have done these activities a long time ago. After looking at many of the activities created by everyone I can definitely see how these an be helpful, especially in social sciences!
DeleteMy video took awhile to upload. It stinks that yours was able to. I really like the idea of the social sciences task cards. Your learning styles activity sounds like it would engage the students and they would enjoy it.
DeleteI enjoyed what I created! When I took the Learning Styles Inventory, I wasn't surprised that I was a visual learner followed by tactile, and then auditory. I honestly have a difficult time sitting in a lecture because I get nothing from it. My body just kind of blocks things out. I rather have the notes written down and learn from there. I can study for an exam by quickly looking over the material and then visualizing specific pages in my head to find what I need to know. I am very organized and love having my notes in front of me.
ReplyDeleteFor my task cards, I did algebraic linear slope equations. This was intended for 9th graders in high school. I started off with the slope form, then the equation, and then a graph of the formulas to help students understand the concepts better.
For the second learning styles inventory, I did the same concepts, but this time with a wrap around card.
I fell both ways will help students who struggle with algebra to grasp the information. It even helped myself!
It amazes me how well these activities can be fixed to work for all subjects. I never would have thought that these could work for something like math.
DeleteI really like how you did your activities based on an older learner. I think it really showed that no matter the age or subject that anybody can benefit from these activities. I am the same way in lectures- I get lost in the talking and before I know it, class is over and I cannot remember what we actually talked about.
DeleteI enjoyed both of your activities! The way you presented the information was really thought out and since you kept the activities to the same content, it is a really good idea for those students who like seeing information presented two different ways.
DeleteI am partially a visual learner as well, and definitely wasn't surprised by this either! I agree with the fact that you have to be taking notes or you just kind of zone out because I have the same problem!
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ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed doing this simple activities. The activities I did were super easy to make and super easy to run through. I even felt I was taught the information that i did the activities over. I made the activities to be for the ages of around 13-15 so middle school aged kids. I was very surprised to find out that the activities could very easily be tailored to fit the needs of any age group not just a specific one. I did the wrap around and also the task cards. I did the content over renewable energy and also the different types of energy.
ReplyDeleteThe learning style that I have is more tactile or hands on. I do really well with hands on activities and doing activities that get me moving, engaging all my senses. I knew that I was more of a hands on learning for a while. I noticed that writing down my notes well helped me remember much more. I stay engaged when I am doing something with my hands over just sitting and listening to a teacher lecture me. I have never gotten much from just lecture based classes and its very hard to stay focused!
Ryan, I thought your cards were great! You are very good at drawing! This was a very good way to illustrate energy resources. Like you, I enjoy the wrap-around cards more than any other style! I think it is just because I am visual learner and can picture the words and definitions in my head.
DeleteI really enjoyed that you put a picture on your task card as well as the definition. Sometimes its easier for me to remember a picture rather then a lengthy definition- but from that picture I can come up with which definition it would go with. I thought your wrap-aroud was very well do. I wish I would have has something like that in my science classes when I was younger.
DeleteI thought both of the concepts for the activities were really good. I liked how you did your task cards. It was very easy to follow along, and pictures are always helpful!
DeleteI also thought the pictures on the task cards were very helpful. It usually helps to picture things in my head! I think it's awesome that even you learned something from making the task cards because that will definitely help kids in the future learn from them as well!
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