Learning Styles and ICT

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Understanding students' personal learning styles helps teachers make learning more relevant. Learners can be defined by the sensory pathways through which they prefer to receive information:
Visual learning
Auditory learning
Kinaesthetic or tactile learning

Visual - learning by seeing
Information and communications technology (ICT) can stimulate visual learning with graphics, animations and simulations. Interactive whiteboards and PowerPoint presentations enable teachers to present concepts in a visual way.Visual learning ideas:

• Show Discovery Channel videos from Encarta to illustrate a topic
• Ask children to present a topic such as the water cycle using pictures and diagrams in PowerPoint
• Get children to produce a time-lapse movie of a plant germinating and growing using Movie Maker 2
• Have a video conference on Windows Instant Messenger
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Auditory - learning by hearing
Auditory learners prefer to learn through sound and speech. Many PCs, and all Tablet PCs, can record speech and sound. These files can then be embedded into slides or documents. ICT can also encourage conversation-based collaboration, for example, through video conferencing.Auditory learning ideas:

• Get children to use some of the sound clips in Encarta to explain concepts
• Ask children to embed sounds in their PowerPoint presentations to explain a topic
• Videos with voice-overs engage visual and auditory learning styles. Ask your students to record the soundtrack to a demonstration
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Kinaesthetic or tactile - learning by doing
Kinaesthetic or tactile learners prefer active forms of learning such as writing, drawing and producing animations, or making models and doing practical experiments. They benefit from using devices that involve touch, like mice and joysticks, or a Tablet PC, which enables users to write or draw onto a computer using a pen.Kinaesthetic learning ideas:

• The 'Lever Principle' interactivity in Encarta is a great example of content for kinaesthetic learners
• Set up a PC with Flight Simulator and a games controller and attach it to a data projector or large screen. Select an area to fly over to enhance geography lessons
• Ask children to explain a concept that involves movement using the animation tools in PowerPoint
• Use digital photography with PowerPoint to teach a movement in PE or a skill in Design and Technology
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