Learning styles.

Everybody knows that there are many areas of learning. Which one is useful for learning more efficiently?
For Focus on education series, Dr. Martin Cook says that everyone is interested to know about how to
learn more efficiently and also to understand how they would learn best themselves. Everybody should know
that there isnt only one combination of learning styles, as most people learn in a variety of ways. The first
area considered is the visual memory: people who have a good visual memory usually think in pictures or
diagrams. This is used in learning the shape words, like in English that its not a phonetic language. Dr. Cook
explains that they will also enjoy learning from videos or illustrated textbooks. Another way of learning is
the auditory memory, which is useful in music and in learning foreign languages, because you have to be
able to hear and repeat. Lastly, there is a learning area called muscle memory that uses a kinaesthetic
memory. For example, this area is used when you learn to ride a bike as a child or learn to swim.
Furthermore, this style of learning is used when you learn to play a musical instrument or when you do
experiments in a science laboratory. But students dont use only one way of learning, as they often use a
mixture of the different learning styles. So, if they receive a variety stimuli they will learn efficiently. To sum
up, an advice to teachers is that they should do lessons that involves all of the three areas of learning, so that
students can learn in the most efficient way.