Learning styles, always a controversial topic. Kinesthetic? Auditory? Visual? Multi-Modal? Everyone's got a style, or a mix of styles. That is a fact.
Now, today's blog isn't going to be a educational bit on the learning styles of individuals. It's more about the way people see and understand learning styles. Today, I was telling a family member about the online component of my textbook which is actually quite cool. There are quizzes on various parts of the textbook with auditory, visual, and kinesthetic style forms. Said family member rolled his eyes when I mentioned how cool it was that the program catered to various learning styles. When asked why, he said "the real world doesn't offer choices, no one's going to help you out with different learning routes."
I beg to differ.
When I started out as a secretary, I knew nothing about the job. My boss didn't come up and say "This is what you need to learn, would you like to hear it, see it, or learn it with your hands?" Instead, she told me how to do things, I read about them in the office manual and I tried them out by trial and error. The real world doesn't sit you down and offer you three choices, but let's face it: no matter what kind of learner you are, you can figure things out with today's technology. YouTube videos, Google, instruction manuals, 1-800 numbers, customer support, etc.
In short, I would like to disagree with my skeptical relation and say that the real world does offer us the three learning routes, if only we have the initiative to look.
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