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Lesson 6 - Learning Styles

This document discusses learning styles and how visuals can be used to support different types of learners. It defines learning styles as how individuals perceive and process information. The main types are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic/tactile learners. Visual learners learn best through visual content like images, diagrams, and videos. The document outlines different classifications of visuals and how they can be used cognitively and affectively. It also discusses information processing theory and how visuals can help with short-term and long-term memory through selection, rehearsal, and meaningful associations. The goal for instructional designers is to design visuals that support all stages of memory and learning for different learner types.

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Lesson 6 - Learning Styles

This document discusses learning styles and how visuals can be used to support different types of learners. It defines learning styles as how individuals perceive and process information. The main types are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic/tactile learners. Visual learners learn best through visual content like images, diagrams, and videos. The document outlines different classifications of visuals and how they can be used cognitively and affectively. It also discusses information processing theory and how visuals can help with short-term and long-term memory through selection, rehearsal, and meaningful associations. The goal for instructional designers is to design visuals that support all stages of memory and learning for different learner types.

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LEARNING STYLES

ICTE 115

CHIEF SKDIO ACHULO


LAST WEEK

• Introduction to Photoshop
THIS WEEK

• Learning Styles
OBJECTIVES

• Define learning style


• Types of learning styles
• Visual Learning Styles
• Auditory Learning Styles
• Kinesthetic/Tactile Learning Styles

• Visual Learning Techniques


• Auditory Learning Techniques
• Kinesthetic/Tactile Technique
DEFINITION

• The sense by which the qualities of an object (as color) that make up its appearance are
perceived through a process in which light rays entering the eye are transformed into
signals that pass to the brain.
• The act or power of seeing : sight.
• Visuals are typically thought+. of as communication that is not verbal
• It is generally accepted that visuals contribute to learning
• DEFINITION Unlike Auditory and Kinesthetic, visual learner tends to learn watching, to know a
new concept. Fifty to sixty-five percent of people are visuals
• There are three types of learners
HOW ARE VISUALS USED

• Visuals have been classified by several researchers


• Reiber classifies them into
• Graphics that serve as an affective function
• Graphics that serve a cognitive function
• Levvin on the other hand classifies visuals into
• Decorative
• Representative
• Organisational
• Interpretational
• transformational
DECORATIVE VISUAL

• These do not have a strong association with the instructional content


• They only make the content attractive or interesting
DECORATIVE VISUAL
REPRESENTATIONAL VISUAL

• This type of visuals carry the same information as the text making it more concrete
• They help a learner visualise information
REPRESENTATIONAL VISUAL
ORGANIZATIONAL VISUAL

• Organizational visuals help learners understand the structure and hierarchy or information
ORGANIZATIONAL VISUAL
INTERPRETATIVE VISUAL

• These visuals help learner understand difficult and ambiguous content


INTERPRETATIVE VISUAL
TRANSFORMATIONAL VISUAL

• These visuals make information more memorable


TRANSFORMATIONAL VISUAL
INFORMATION PROCESSING THEORY

• Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) proposes a model with 2 types of memory


• Short Term Memory
• Sensory Memory
• Working Memory
• Long Term Memory
INFORMATION PROCESSING THEORY

Memory Store Capacity Duration Format


Short-Term
Memory
Sensory Can hold unlimited Seconds Visual and Auditory
amount of
information
Working Can hold very Seconds Visual and Auditory
limited amount of
information
Long Term Can hold an Indefinite some Visual, language
Memory unlimited amount think Permanent semantically
of information
INFORMATION PROCESSING THEORY

• This theory attributes learning to a successful transfer of important information from one type of
memory to the next
Short term Long term
memory Memory
WORKING WITH SHORT TERM MEMORY

• Selection: it’s a process of attending to specific information and ignoring other information
• Some researcher suggest that it holds about 5 to 9 units of information…
• Chunking is a technique for helping people work better with short term memory

• To keep information in the working memory one has to “Do” something


• This is called rehearsal (repeating information)
WORKING WITH SHORT TERM MEMORY

• Getting information into the long term memory is the challenge


• Usually rehearsal helps but making information meaningful to the learner gives the best chance
of success
YOUR JOB AS A DESIGNER

• Your job is to design visuals for all three types of memories


• You need to design for your learners to notice important information (Selection)
• To think about and work with information (rehearsal in Working Memory)
• To associate new information to previous experiences
• There are three types of learners

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