Even though you didn’t get the
benefit of seeing me demo all of these
learning styles (I demo’d a few of them), how do you think these types of
kinesthetic activities help ALL learners, not just kinesthetic learners? Share
your thoughts… Be sure to include your reaction to other’s learning styles
activities, the quizzes they create (because those appeal to various learners
as well), and anything else you want to share! Please blog by Wednesday, Dec.
24th. Merry Christmas Eve! Feel free to blog on Tuesday and have two
days off! J
These learning style activities really can help any kind of learning style. From a kinesthetic learning perspective you are getting to move and use your hands and keep moving. From a visual learning perspective you are getting so see not only the word but the definition or in some cases a picture and how they come together. As an auditory learning you can say what is on the task card as you put them together that way you are making a connection of the sounds to how it would look on a test or quiz of some sort. Also from doing and watching these activities I really learned how these can be used for any age group which I would have never thought about. Usually when I think about matching games and such I think about younger kids but since a few of the classmates did some involving algebra and energy in science I could then see how even high school aged or college students could use these as a method of study.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed watching everyones videos and seeing how even though everyone was assigned to do task cards they all came out so much different. Each person focused on something so different which made it interesting to see how these cards or different learning activities can be used in any content area.
Looking over the quizzes that everyone made really made me realize how many different ways there are to make practically the same quiz. Everyones questions pretty much hit on all the same topics but were do so differently. I focused more on a short answer, where students could state something out of the book, but then justify and give details. Multiple choice questions are not my person favorite to take because I begin to second guess myself when I reread the answers thinking "well, this one sound correct, but which one is more right" and that can be frustration. But some of the quizzes created were multiple choice heavy or had more true/false. It was very interesting to see how everyone too the same chapter and made it so different.
After seeing the work of everyone else it really just made me realize how even though we have all been in the same types of education classes and have may have similar transcripts there really is no wrong way and everyone will do something different.
I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!
I love how we all took the information and presented it in various ways. We all have different teaching styles. Merry Christmas!
DeleteI completely agree with you! There are so many ages that can benefit from the learning styles activity! Each individual or future teachers have their own way in making quizzes, learning activities, worksheets, etc. It is really nice to see the different learning styles of each future teacher!
DeleteI definitely agree that it is interesting that everyone did task cards, they all came out differently. This just goes to show the variety that can be involved in doing activities!
DeleteThe activities we all created aid kinesthetic learners. The activities also aid visual learners. A visual learner has to see something be done in order to learn the content. An auditory learner can benefit from the activities we all created by talking through what they are doing. When an auditory learner does this they are more apt to remember the content.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed watching everyone's videos. I love how we all did different subjects and we all had different takes on it. The way we all presented our activities was easy to follow.
After seeing the quizzes that everyone made, I can tell that we all have different experiences and ideas on how to present information to students in a quiz form. My quiz was formatted for upper middle school students and high school students. I did matching, multiple choice, true and false, short answer, and short essay questions. It was interesting to see how we all took the information from Chapter 2 and created our own quiz over what we thought was important in the chapter.
Merry Christmas everyone!
I really like how the learning styles activity aided all types of learners. The videos we all made showed differences in our teaching/learning styles. The quizzes we did also show those differences. The way we reflect/write things may benefit in writing such tests, etc, but we will have to make sure to target all learning styles!
DeleteI thought it was very cool to watch the videos as well. I liked how to we all presented our things in our own ways.
DeleteI do agree that the activities are very easy to follow. I also really liked your quiz it had a wide variety of different types questions which would allow students who preferred different questions a way of making up point they may lose on their non favorite questions.
DeleteI also enjoyed watching everyone's videos, and seeing the differences and how each person thought to put their ideas into a project!
DeleteLike Marissa and Jennifer said, the learning styles activities we did target all types of learning styles. For the kinesthetic learners, the hands on tasking and placing the pieces together affect their learning ability. The auditory learners can learn by putting the pieces together and saying them out loud as they do the activity. Even practicing with a friend, parent, or sibling will help an auditory learner. For the visual learners like myself, they can see the task cards and activities and create the imagery needed to retrieve the information in their heads. Each individual did their own task cards in several different ways. You can really see the creativity in each classmate's work. I really enjoyed seeing the different styles and videos that my classmate's put together.
ReplyDeleteThe quizzes everyone made were very interesting! Like I said previously, each person has their own teaching/learning style. When I create my quiz, I put an assortment of types of questions. I did multiple choice, short answer, and true/false questions because I feel that each person reacts differently to different types of questions. Short answer is good sometimes because it allows an individual to evaluate the answer and come up with supportive evidence for their answer; whereas true/false and multiple choice has one right answer. I like to add all types of questions to make sure certain points are hit. The other quizzes hit most of the same points as mine did, however, the styles were still different from each classmate.
Again, I really enjoyed these activities! It really opened my eyes to the different learning styles, and teaching styles (quizzes we made).
Merry Christmas to all of you as well! :)
I agree that everyone has their own teaching style and it was very cool to see how that was expressed in their created quizzes.
DeleteI agree when you say that each person reacts differently to different types of questions. When I see multiple choice I feel more at ease than I do with short answer questions. Merry Christmas!
DeleteLike I said in my blog I like short answer because it allows me to justify my answer, whereas multiple choice questions sometimes confuse me. All the quizzes, for the most part, hit the same topics, but in such a different way.
DeleteI definitely agree that each person has their own learning/teaching style, which is why it is so hard to accommodate for everyone sometimes.
DeleteI have stated before that I was very impressed with the uses that these activities could provide to students. The movement involved with the activities was the part that I enjoyed to most, but I like learning that way. If a student is a visual learner these activities are perfect also because you can see everything that you're doing, whether it be pictures, or diagrams or even graphs. For a student that is an auditory learner, they would be able to read definitions or explanation if that is what helped the best. The uses of these activities are many.
ReplyDeleteWatching everyone's videos reinforced the fact that they can be over any subject and really just about any age. I liked to see that the activities were simple yet also got the point across. I did a quiz that had mainly short answer. I think that short answer gives the student more chances to explain his or her self so that they can show how well they know their stuff! It was cool to see the differences between all of our quizzes and how we would test our future students!
I agree with your statement on short answer. They do reflect on the student's ability to explain themselves. Merry Christmas!
DeleteI am a visual learner so these activities really do help me, but I can see hoe they help all different types of learned. I do agree with you on the short answer questions and that it allows people to explain themselves.
DeleteI was also very impressed by how these activities could be used by students. There are so many variations that it could really be applied to anyone.
DeleteI think that short answer does give students an opportunity to express their answer and back it up with information, but I think that not all students can answer short answer as well as others can. That is why I listed all different types of questions to target those who are not good and some, but better at the other.
ReplyDeleteAs everyone said, these activities really apply to all types of learners. The kinesthetic learners, they were able to have more hands on work. The visual learners can see what they are doing, so later they are able to visualize what they learned. Auditory learners are able to talk out what they are doing as they put the pieces or whatever they are doing together.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the fact that I was able to see what everyone else did because it really gave me so many ideas for the future. I had no idea so many subjects could be learned so many different ways, and everyone in our class is so different in what they plan to teach in the future. I also liked seeing what everyone else did for their quizzes because before making one, I had never realized how hard it actually is to make them. While some students prefer short answer, others prefer multiple choice or matching, so it is sometimes hard to get a good mix of all types of questions while still hitting on the main points.