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valz valz
 
January 29, 2009 11:06 AM

Do you find it easier to read, listen to, watch, write down, and/or experience what you are trying to learn?

Or is it some combination of the above? or does something completely different work best for you? It seems like people learn differently - and yet much of school is taught in just one way.  I guess that if you know you learn differently you need to add those things to your learning toolbox yourself to succeed.Creative Commons by Mike Willis
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drmatt drmatt
 
 January 29, 2009 02:30 PM
There are three primary ways of dealing with the world - visual, aural and kinesthetic (there's also gustatory and olfactory, but they are bit more rare). I've found that people have a primary and secondary.

I'm primarily a visual and then a kinesthetic. If I can visualize it, I can learn it... then I have to feel it (touch or emotional).

I agree that there are some serious difficiencies of schools, but that is directly related to how much we value schools, teachers and learning.
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ecofeco ecofeco
 
January 29, 2009 11:31 AM
When I'm learning something, how I do it is always a matter of the subject and circumstance. So I use various combinations of the above again depending on the circumstances. Is it new? It is further study of a subject I already know? Is it difficult? Is it easy but requires time and focus?

I also find something else that works. The old standby of "repetition." Practice makes perfect is more than a cliche'.

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marinamart... marinamart...
 
January 29, 2009 12:02 PM
It definitely varies by the person, but it seems that to really learn something, everyone eventually has to reach and work through the "experience" part ... you ultimately learn math by doing math, learn soccer by playing soccer, etc. How you prepare for the experiential step is the difference. Personally, I prefer reading and writing information myself over listening or watching.

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lesliec lesliec
 
January 29, 2009 12:18 PM
I learn by doing. It doesn't help me to read about it or watch you do it, I need to have my hands in there doing it.

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darth cont... darth cont...
 
January 29, 2009 01:56 PM
I'm a very hands-on learner and visually-oriented, so I tend to do best if I can both observe something and mess around with it. 

For example in my job developing software I often will try to find existing code samples which perform a certain task, tear them apart and try changing stuff to see how my changes impact it, then customize it to do what I need it to.  For me books serve well as a reference but I don't benefit from reading through them step-by-step. 

On the flip side, one drawback of this learning style for me is that I might jump into something, figure out how to do something then and there, but only later realize that I'd been doing something in a way more complicated than it should or could be.

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bbrookin bbrookin
 
January 29, 2009 03:08 PM

Reading is probably my primary method of learning, followed by practicing what I am being taught. I learn about 80% of a new skill by reading, though. I can do well by listening, but take a ton of notes to reinforce learning and provide reference - which I then read.

I also enjoy non-standard learning methods. I was once challenged in a class to draw what we had learned in the lecture that day, no words allowed. It was pretty cool, and effective, too.


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cee-jay cee-jay
 
January 30, 2009 12:17 AM
I have children, and during college, I had to study with surrounding screaming kids, so I would read sentances over and over. But I found I like to read over and over and memorize. I also started studying  while listening to my IPOD. My college professor could never understand me when I took the exams, I would ask to wear headphones. I wore the headphones and  studied as well as why i took the test. My philosophy, the song order helped me to remember answers to the questions to sentances I remember reading. How it worked I dont know, but I passed with a  4.0 so I did something right!!!!
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