Nooooooooooooooooooooo!
My alma mater continues to promote the false notion of Learning Styles.
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
I love KU. I love the origins of the term Jayhawker. I hate their embrace of this Learning Styles nonsense. NEW BORDER WAR.
RCJH.
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Recent Twitter/LinkedIn Posts
Learning Styles – taught at Kansas University. It incensed me to no end, that I sent them an email about it years ago. To borrow a phrase, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” I’m looking at you – @UnivOfKansas BTW I spent many hours inside the William Allen White SoJ building.
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T&D: Is this the week everyone should Google their alma mater and Learning Styles and then point out TO THEM that it’s BOGUS?!? Otherwise, how will we ever end this BS? Do it!
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Learning Styles? Vanderbilt gets it.
https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/learning-styles-preferences/
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There don’t seem to be many willing to determine if their alma mater is promoting Learning Styles – or not. And taking them to task if they do. That’s how garbage/myths in the profession wins out.
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T&D: Isn’t it a known fact that ONLY Unicorns have Learning Styles!?! Nay, you say!?! Pleeeeeease. Just ask the next one you see.
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T&D: The Learning Styles Myth is Thriving in Higher Education. The existence of ‘Learning Styles’ is a common ‘neuromyth’, and their use in all forms of education has been thoroughly and repeatedly discredited in the research literature.
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T&D: “…a substantial divide continues to exist, with learning styles instruction enjoying broad acceptance in practice, but the majority of research evidence suggesting that it has no benefit to student learning, deepening questions about its validity.”
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T&D: Stop shoveling the Nonsense on Learning Styles. It’s Not a Thing.
https://elearnmag.acm.org/featured.cfm?aid=2070611
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Learning Styles – A Bridge to Nowhere?
There Is No Such Thing as “Learning Styles”
by Sigmund Tobias, Fordham University
Published in Summer 2001 in the CADDI Newsletter: Pursuing Performance – here – and in a post here:
Debunking the Myth – There Is No Such Thing As “Learning Styles”
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Learning Styles Is Bull
Sung to the tune of Alice’s Restaurant.
With apologies to Arlo Guthrie…
Really sick and they won’t like him
They won’t like either of them, seriously
A bar of “Learning Styles is bull” and walkin’ out? They may think it’s an
Organization!
Walkin’ in, singin’ a bar of “Learning Styles is bull” and walkin’ out?
Foo Foo About: Designing Instruction for Learning Styles Differences
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