I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand. ( Confucius circa 450BC )

1. I hear and I forget;I see and I remember;I do and I understand.(Confucius circa 450BC) Differently Learning 1

2. Learning differently Plan of session Individual activity Learning Styles Case studies in group work Differently Learning

3. Outcomes for this session • To define learning styles and learning strategies • To explore multisensory methods of teaching delivery • To relate multisensory learning to different contexts. • To emphasize good memory strategies Differently Learning 3

4. The teacher who influenced me most • Take a few minutes to think of one particular teacher who brought learning to life at any point in your education • How do you remember that person? • What special features did that teacher possess? Differently Learning 4

5. Experience in education Differently Learning 5

6. Learning and teaching styles “I am someone’s son or daughter, someone else’s cousin or uncle, I am a citizen of this or that city, a member of this or that guild or profession, I belong to this tribe, that clan, this nation. I inherit from the past of my family, my city, my tribe, my nation, a variety of debts, inheritances, rightful expectationsand obligations. These constitute the given of my life, my moral starting point. This is the part what gives my life its own moral particularity” Alasdair MacIntyre

7. What is learning? The modification of behaviour through training, practice or experience Department of Materials Science and Engineering

8. The brain contains 100 billion neurons

9. What is a Mind? Newborn 3 Months 15 Months 2 Years

10. Caution

11. Learning Styles • Visual • Auditory • Kinaesthetic • Wholistic Differently Learning 11

14. How best do you think you absorb information in a learning situation? • Visual Experience • Auditory Experience • Kinaesthetic Experience • Wholistic Experience

15. What is the least favourable way for you to absorb information in a learning situation? • Visual Experience • Auditory Experience • Kinaesthetic Experience • Wholistic Experience

16. 30 SECONDS!

17. Learning Styles & Multisensory Techniques • Visual • Auditory • Kinaesthetic • Wholistic Differently Learning 17

18. Visual learners learn best through: • Taking notes and making lists to read later • Reading information to be learned • Learning from books, videotapes, filmstrips and printouts • Seeing a demonstration • Working with concept maps • Seeing the the larger picture

19. Strategies for visual learners Create concept maps /flow charts • Use videos and photos • Format texts and notes • Use colours, underline and circle texts • Visualisation • Use models, actual or virtual • Use symbols to back up verbally-presented information

20. Activity to demonstrate Visual Learning Differently Learning 20

21. Auditory learners learn best through: • Listening to lectures and audio sources • Debating and discussing ideas • Preparing oral presentations for others • Using speech recognition software • Finding alternative ways of accessing texts

22. Strategies for auditory learners • Recording notes through speech recognition software • Recording lectures to listen again • Reading aloud or singing information • Revising by recording and replaying information • Making a list of keywords • Compiling a subject-specific vocabulary

23. Activity to demonstrate auditory techniques Differently Learning 23

24. Kinaesthetic learners learn best through; • Doing and practising • Taking in information through labs, field trips, excursions, etc • Learning from demonstrations • Doing examples to learn concepts and principles

25. Strategies for kinaesthetics learners • Walk about while you are learning • Take frequent study breaks • Learn by handling materials, using models, doing things • Create models,posters, images • Skim-read books to get an overview first

26. Activity to demonstrate kinaesthetic Differently Learning 26

27. Wholistic Learning strategies Differently Learning 27

29. Case Studies • In your groups, consider the case study and suggest a solution Differently Learning 29

30. Useful websites • www.mindtools.com/memory.html • http://www.speedreading.com/ • http://www.brainhe.com/students/types/dyslexia.html • www.premiumhealth.com/memory/tip.html • http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk • http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/ • http://www.lumosity.com/app/v4/personalization Differently Learning 30

31. Bibliography • McKissock, C. Great Ways to Learn Anatomy and Physiology (2009)Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. • Maier P., Anna Barney & Geraldine Price, Study Skills for Science, Engineering & Technology Students (2009) Pearson, Harlow. • Cottrell, Stella. The Study Skills Handbook, 3rd Ed (2008) Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. • Mortimore ,T. Dyslexia and Learning Style - a Practitioner’s Handbook, 2nd Ed. (2008) Wiley, Chichester. Differently Learning 31

32. Case Study 2Physics Differently Learning

33. Case study 3 Biomedical Science

34. Case Study 4 • Engineering

35. Case Study 5 • English Literature

36. Acknowledgements Thanks are due to Professor Suzan Greenfield for the use of slide no 9. Learning Differently