Visual learning is a proven teaching method in which ideas, concepts, data and other

information are associated with images and represented graphically. Graphic organizers,
such as webs, concept maps and idea maps, and plots, such as stack plots and Venn plots,
are some of the techniques used in visual learning to enhance thinking and learning skills.

[edit] Visual learning techniques

Creating graphic organizers - Students create graphic organizers such as diagrams,
webs and concept maps by selecting symbols to represent ideas and information. To show
the relationships between ideas, students link the symbols and add words to further
clarify meaning.

By representing information spatially and with images, students are able to focus on
meaning, reorganize and group similar ideas easily, and make better use of their visual
memory.

In a study entitled Graphic Organizers: A Review of Scientifically Based Research, The

Institute for the Advancement of Research in Education at AEL evaluated 29 studies and
concluded that visual learning improves student performance in the following areas:

• Critical Thinking--Graphic organizers link verbal and visual information to help

students make connections, understand relationships and recall related details.

• Retention--According to research, students better remember information when it's

represented and learned both visually and verbally.

• Comprehension--Students better comprehend new ideas when they are connected

to prior knowledge.

• Organization--Students can use diagrams to display large amounts of information

in ways that are easy to understand and help reveal relationships and patterns.

Visualizing data - When working with data, students build data literacy as they collect
and explore information in a dynamic inquiry process, using tables and plots to visually
investigate, manipulate and analyze data. As students explore the way data moves
through various plot types, such as Venn, stack, pie and axis, they formulate questions
and discover meaning from the visual representation.

Additionally, research shows that visual learning an effective way to teach something to
somebody due to its interactive features

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Auditory learning
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Auditory learning is a style of learning in which a person learns most effectively by

listening to information delivered orally, in lectures, speeches, and oral sessions. Auditory
learners make up about 10% of the population.[citation needed] Studies indicate that when an
auditory/verbal (i.e. listening to information delivered orally) learners read, it is almost
impossible for the learner to comprehend anything without sound in the background.[citation
needed]
In these situations, listening to music while learning is beneficial.

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Kinesthetic learning
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• 1 Kinesthetic learning
• 2 Incidence
• 3 Features of kinesthetic learners
• 4 Differentiated Thinking Styles
• 5 References
• 6 External links

• 7 Categories

[edit] Kinesthetic learning

Kinesthetic learning is a teaching and learning style in which learning takes place by the
student actually carrying out a physical activity, rather than listening to a lecture or
merely watching a demonstration. It's about learning through doing and students with this
predominant learning style are natural discovery learners who have realizations through
doing, as opposed to having thought first before initiating action.

[edit] Incidence
Visual learners account for around 60% of the population and verbal learners account for
around 30% of the population, Kinesthetic learners may account for around 10% of the
population[1].

[edit] Features of kinesthetic learners

Kinesthetic learners may be restless or hyperactive when feeling understimulated in
educational setting reliant on visual or verbal learning styles. Without movement they
may struggle to maintain attention and so may be more susceptible to diagnoses such as
ADD or ADHD[2].

Kinesthetic learners (unless they also have a movement or motor planning disorder such
as dyspraxia) may have a highly developed sense of balance, timing and body movement
and work well in physical and manual tasks[3].

Examples of kinesthetic learning include building dioramas, physical models or

participating in role-playing or historical reenactment are some examples and physical
patterning. Other examples include the kindergarten practice of having children perform
various motions from left to right in preparation for reading education.

Movement has long been used as an aid to mnemonics, as with the right-hand rule in
physics. Pedagogical theorists such as Howard Gardner, however, assert that
understanding of space and motion well is a distinct kind of intelligence in itself, useful
in such various fields as engineering, database design, and athletics such as martial arts or
dance.

Some proponents of kinesthetic learning see it primarily as a way to increase association

through repetition, but some proponents of "educational kinesthetics" such as Brain Gym
asserts that certain physical motions increase the density of neurological networks within
the brain itself, especially when practiced by growing children.

The ability to maintain awareness of one's own physical position in space is sometimes
called proprioception.

[edit] Differentiated Thinking Styles

Related common thinking styles and learning styles are visual (learning through visuals
and visualisation) and verbal (learning through words and thinking in words), and less
commonly, aural (musical thinking associated with rote aural patterning) and logical
(mathematical and systems thinking in which one thinks in categories and relationships
between factors)[4].

[edit] References
1. ^ http://www.grapplearts.com/Learning-Styles-in-Grappling.htm
 2. ^ http://www.latitudes.org/articles/learn01.html
3. ^ http://www2.yk.psu.edu/learncenter/acskills/kinesthetic.html
4. ^ http://www.learning-styles-online.com/overview/

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