Learning Styles
Different people learn in different ways. When I use the word learn I mean the way they educate themselves, the way they absorb knowledge. Some people need to use repetition while some people can just glance over something once and remember it. I am the type of person that NEEDS repetition.
My style of repetition has evolved over time however, I used to need to use note cards and write everything out by hand but now I have been able to use technology to my advantage. Technology has given me a way to keep the insane amounts of note cards I used to use in a nice slim tablet or phone. Throughout college I was able to condense thousands of note cards through either a website like Quizlet or Google Docs and have them all in the palm of my hand. However, there was a sort of creative downside to using technology. When creating note cards by hand I was able to customize what I wanted to put on there and use my own style of drawing if need be, which I was unable to do with technology. I was stuck to having to find pictures online which in some cases I was just completely unable to do. There were apps or devices that would allow me to do this but most were outside of my budget. This is just one way technology is improving the way students are able to learn.
Technology allows students to utilize outside resources such as online activities, videos, games, even test taking now. These sort of resources are slowly changing the style of classrooms into what is called "flipped learning". A flipped classroom assigns a video lesson that a student would watch at home and do on their own, almost teaching themselves. The student then comes into school the next day with any questions regarding the lesson and homework that was assigned therefore allowing the teacher more time to answer any questions regarding the lesson. In my opinion flipped learning will only be an effective teaching method if the students actually watch the lesson. Flipped learning will require a lot of trust from students and in the end could harm them more than help them if they don't watch the videos. As long as a student is in the classroom, he/she is basically "forced" to listen to the lesson. Although this traditional method does give less one on one time between teacher and student, it has a lot less outside variables that could effect the lesson itself.
My style of repetition has evolved over time however, I used to need to use note cards and write everything out by hand but now I have been able to use technology to my advantage. Technology has given me a way to keep the insane amounts of note cards I used to use in a nice slim tablet or phone. Throughout college I was able to condense thousands of note cards through either a website like Quizlet or Google Docs and have them all in the palm of my hand. However, there was a sort of creative downside to using technology. When creating note cards by hand I was able to customize what I wanted to put on there and use my own style of drawing if need be, which I was unable to do with technology. I was stuck to having to find pictures online which in some cases I was just completely unable to do. There were apps or devices that would allow me to do this but most were outside of my budget. This is just one way technology is improving the way students are able to learn.
Technology allows students to utilize outside resources such as online activities, videos, games, even test taking now. These sort of resources are slowly changing the style of classrooms into what is called "flipped learning". A flipped classroom assigns a video lesson that a student would watch at home and do on their own, almost teaching themselves. The student then comes into school the next day with any questions regarding the lesson and homework that was assigned therefore allowing the teacher more time to answer any questions regarding the lesson. In my opinion flipped learning will only be an effective teaching method if the students actually watch the lesson. Flipped learning will require a lot of trust from students and in the end could harm them more than help them if they don't watch the videos. As long as a student is in the classroom, he/she is basically "forced" to listen to the lesson. Although this traditional method does give less one on one time between teacher and student, it has a lot less outside variables that could effect the lesson itself.
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