I personally think that teaching/learning the same information presented in several communication modes is best. It reenforces the content as well as (possibly) helping people with different "input strengths and weaknesses" have content in an easily processed form. Linda Walling

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>From: Martin McCormick <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Aug 31, 2011 3:49 PM
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>Subject: Re: concept of learning styles questioned
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>Prof Norm Coombs writes:
>> Interesting article from NPR on researchers questioning the concept of
>> different learning styles:
>
>	My father tought clinical psychology in college for many
>years until he retired and he says that it really doesn't matter
>how the information gets in to the brain as long as it gets
>there. We tend to eventually process it the same way whether or
>not we read it or heard it.
>
>	Of course certain channels of input work better for
>certain information, but if you get that information in, the
>brain can start to work on it.
>
>	As one who was born blind but with some light and color
>perception, I can say that certain things are extremely
>difficult to understand such as how a boy properly throws a ball
>because you almost have to see it to learn it but I bet I could
>learn the same thing through virtual reality such as, what if
>you wore a glove on your hand that applied pressure in one way
>when you moved your arm a certain way and some other way when
>you moved it wrong, so to speak. One would basically start
>slowly and know what the motion is so that you could speed it up
>and throw correctly.
>
>	That's just one example pulled out of the air, but there
>are many actions like that which are hard to explain to one who
>can't see them, but which might be communicated via some other
>channel.
>
>	People who have been profoundly deaf all their life but
>who can see normally can learn to make every single lip and
>tongue movement anybody else can as long as they can see it.
>When you start dealing with the more complex movements that
>can't be seen such as how to say the name "Barbara," it comes
>out "Baba" because it's hard to get across the extra tongue
>movement that makes the R sound in the middle of the word.
>
>	I doubt we will ever figure out how to produce
>information for one sense that replaces information lost when
>another sense fails, but the brain, itself, excluding organic
>damage, should be able to process anything we throw at it as
>long as we can somehow get those data around the limitations of
>what senses remain.
>
>Martin McCormick
>
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