unit 1 - M3

M3.

When learning there are three main ways in which people can learn. There is a visual way of learning, and auditory way and a kinaesthetic way. Everyone has their own style of learning and I am going to explain what each one is and chose the ones that I think I use to learn new skills.

If you are a visual learner, you most likely prefer using images, pictures, colours, and maps to organize information and communicate with others. By learning this way people find it easy to recall what they have seen, they can follow written or drawn instructions, like to read, they use written notes most of the time and quite a lot of people benefit by watching TV, videos and films. By being a visual learner, you can have a lot of special skills in which to learn, some might be different ways to other people’s, but it you learn in any of these ways then you are most likely a visual learner.

Auditory learning is when you prefer to learn by listening rather than by reading or writing, quite a lot of people learn this way because they find it easy to gather more information in when it is being said out loud. A lot of auditory learners find written instructions more difficult to follow than spoken ones because they can find it hard gathering information in through reading. Being an auditory learner has lots of benefits because you can mostly solve problems by talking about them, so if a student got stuck on a task, they would happily ask a teacher and talk about the task to solve the problem. Group discussions can be a very beneficial thing for auditory learners as well, quite a lot of people including myself like to have discussions and learn through this way.

Kinesthetic learners like to learn through a more practical way, such as learning from demonstrations, this is a good way of learning because you are learning how to do something from someone who knows what they are doing, and when it is a demonstration, you can adapt their skills to yourself. When you are a kinesthetic learner, you learn more from playing games, role playing and you are able to read body language/gestures. When you are on the go and moving around, you find it easier to learn. So if you learn through any of these ways, you are a kinesthetic learner.

When I was learning my new skills, I used the auditory and kinesthetic way of learning. This was easy for me to use because when I was going on websites to learn about things such as blending images, or using goal seek on excel, I was listening to videos and after listening to them, I would try and do what had been explained, and if I was getting stuck, I would go back to either the video or page and start again so everything would go through properly. In ways I did also use a visual way of learning because I was looking at images, videos and I was also reading pages which were showing me how to do certain things. All in all I did use a bit of each learning style, but I was more a auditory and kinesthetic learner when learning my new skills.