Hello everyone, I have recently begun to read this list-serve and while I find the daily digest hard to actually "digest" and think an online forum would be a better venue for this set of discussions, I deeply appreciate many of the discussions i have read.
The topic of learning styles is one in which I have had a long interest. I was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD as a kid and always had an intuitive feel that I learned differently than others. While I still think that is true - because executive skill deficits make it harder for me to stay on task and and phonological processing deficits make it harder for me to process text than others - i dont think this is the notion of "learning style differences" professed by proponents of this idea. My initial enthusiasm for this idea has succumbed to the weight of my education as a cognitive psychology / learning sciences graduate student at UIC and I am now agnostic about whether learning styles exist or matter. I am in the final months of my grad program (I am procrastinating from wiring my dissertation thesis right now) and will be teaching research methods in Psychology for the first time and will be asking students to critique some popular psychological myths/psudeo-psychological ideas. I am going to ask them to find sources from the web that support the ideas and then provide them skeptically-leaning articles. I am thinking "learning styles" will be one of the topics I use. I just found this short-ish article critiquing learning styles and wanted to share it with the list, as I am considering using it next term as the scientific source on learning styles. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/PSPI_9_3.pdf happy holidays, Jordan Lippman, ABD http://www.jordanlippman.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: learning styles > From: "Lilienfeld, Scott O" <slil...@emory.edu> > Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:47:11 -0500 > X-Message-Number: 2 > > Hi All: FYI regarding a topic that periodically surfaces on this > listserv....Scott > > http://chronicle.com/article/Matching-Teaching-Style-to/49497/ > > > > Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. > Professor > Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice > Department of Psychology, Room 473 Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences > (PAIS) > Emory University > 36 Eagle Row > Atlanta, Georgia 30322 > slil...@emory.edu > (404) 727-1125 > > Psychology Today Blog: > http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-psychologist > > 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: > http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140513111X.html > > Scientific American Mind: Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Column: > http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/ - > > This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of > the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged > information. If the reader of this message is not the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution > or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly > prohibited. > > If you have received this message in error, please contact > the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the > original message (including attachments). > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
