Before the lesson, we had the task to read the assigned document. Each one of us had an article about the different Learning Styles. In my case, I had to read the "Visual" one. I prepared it and once we were in the classroom we gathered in groups of 4 and each one of us had to explain to each other their "learning style" article they read. It was pretty useful to hear a summary of the 4 styles from one of your peers because we listened carefully and were more focused, Moreover, it's an amazing way of saving up some time, because each one of us had the task to read just 1 part, not the 4.
Melinda put a power point presentation in display while we were presenting our Learning Styles that had some questions in it and a timer. Once the time was up, we had to switch and listen to one of our group peers. Furthermore, this is another great source of organizing the classroom and making sure you have your lesson extremely scheduled. Moreover, it helped us to estimate the time we would dedicate in each topic and to go directly into the matter of concern.
Once we all displayed our topics, we proceeded to discuss about what Learning Style each one of us had.
Later we had to suggest activities for each of the themes. This was the result:
Teachers should embrace all kinds of learning styles, not only implementing
their own learning style as the most important/correct one.
Moreover, we discussed which learning style predominates in our group and the
majority of us have visual learning, including myself. When I study I need to have everything very colorful with highlighters and pictures, etc. Watching videos is also really useful for me, that way it keeps me motivated.
In order to integrate the different types of learning styles in our project we should create
different kinds of activities:
For example, with the visual and auditory learning, they
could go on Youtube or another web page and try to find videos that explain something about that topic. Afterwards, they could share all the information they gathered.
If we want to use the kinesthetic style, they could record a
video about themselves dancing and then show and tell.
For the tactile learning style they could create another
video and explain an experiment while you're doing it.
A drama play would integrate the 4 learning style. The dramatization
would be good for auditory and kinesthetic and the visual would
be good for video edition and the tactile would focus in editing the video. In
the middle age they had to dress with one type of clothes, they could find in
the internet the types of wardrobe (visual) bringing photographs of them,
painting... The atrezzo could be done by
the tactile and the kinesthetic. The audio could take responsibilities of the
music.
