Learning+Styles

Owen McCleery Learning Styles September-15-10 6:02 PM                    I have taken many tests to find out what my most favoured learning style would be and I always find that I am a kinaesthetic learner. Kinaesthetic is a term for when a person has "muscle sense" and are better suited to be performing some sort of movement while studying to excel to the best of their ability, and are accustomed to or yet to learn they do well / better with hands on and physically challenging procedures. And I would think that these online testing's are correct, because I feel pretty comfortable with reading and note taking, but to keep concentrated I need to be chewing or fidgeting with something e.g. gum or pen. I do believe that building certain projects by hand, are very useful and if I can build it I can remember more explanation and depth in what I am studying or building and will retain the knowledge for a longer period of time.   I can use my learning style to better myself, by isolating my style and using less of the other styles which I am weaker in. I can excel in my strengths and try to use the weaker styles and try to improve them so that I can be a good learner in every style. I can turn my weaker styles which I am used to using, which aren’t giving me the satisfaction in studying I would like to achieve, and alter them into a more physical way of teaching myself or to better my memory, or maybe use given assignment in different methods which lean in the direction of my style. My creativity is infinite with my learning style of kinaesthetic, but so are the others, because there is always something new to be built. I can turn all experiments or assignments into something built by my hands or present something visually by making it through materials rather than on computers. Imagination comes in many forms when you know that you learn best through hands on projects, compared to someone who learns best when writing, a new writing style isn’t easy to just come up with, usually written as others have before them and ideas arnt original the plot is based on something they have read about though the story is ever changing. Visual representations through graphics, what is new everything you see today has been done today, redefined and better quality maybe but nothing new. With kinaesthetic style of learning creativity is just never ending and always something new is brought to the table. I feel comfortable with how I learn and hope to use it to the best of my ability through studying.    [] []