The Biggest Myth In Education

this video is about learning styles what kind of learner are you oh yeah I'm a visual person so like I can see things yeah I think visual learning visual I mean like I remember formulas like auditory I need to be like interacting with the material I like to learn by doing myself very Hands-On handson learner handson so like if I have a model I'd like to look at that and look it over part of this video was sponsored by Google search there is this idea in education that everyone has their own preferred way of learning their so-called learning style if information is presented in accordance with the learning style well then they'll learn better now there are dozens of different learning style theories but the most common one identifies four main learning styles visual auditory Reading Writing and kinesthetic or vark for short visual Learners learn best from images demonstrations and pictures people may say things but I can't really like take it in I just got to see them act it out or write it or something auditory Learners learn best from listening to an explanation like in school I was always engaged in the lecture and that was usually good enough to pass a test Reading Writing Learners learn best from reading and writing like I can get pretty much anything out of reading a textbook or something and can aesthetic Learners learn best by doing physically interacting with the world hands on you you have to touch things you have to play with things uh you know you have it's a contact sport you have to do it yourself I want to try something with you a little experiment I want to show you 10 pictures of things and I don't want you to to say anything while you're looking at them and at the end of the 10 you tell me how many you can remember okay okay okay okay now learning styles make intuitive sense because we know everyone is different some people have better spatial reasoning others have better listening comprehension we know some people are better readers While others are good with their hands it's sort of very much fits with um a broad strain of thought in sort of the recent western tradition is like we're all unique we're all different and so you don't want to ...