There is a great deal of work about ways of learning or learning styles. Some scientists concentrated on identifying stimuli that may influence learning and recommended various teaching approaches. Based on the works of Jung, the scientists focused on understanding how people's personality affects the way they interact personally, and how this affects the way individuals respond to each other in the learning environment. It is now popular to divide education into different learning approaches.
Learning modalities that are the most common:
- Kinesthetic: learning based on hand work and activities.
- Visual: learning based on observation of what is learned.
- Auditory: learning based on listening to information.
Depending on preferred learning modality, different teaching techniques have different levels of effectiveness. The effective teaching is represented by a variety of methods which cover three learning modalities so that different students have equal opportunities to learn in a way that is effective for them. The three modalities of learning styles have been summarized by the acronym VAK, for visual, auditory and kinaesthetic. Scientists also speak of the fourth modality – the self talk. The self-talk is the most powerful, because if you change someone's self-talk through their visual and other auditory sense you may change that person's destiny All four must be put into place to learn fast. With visual, there is what you see, and there are the mental pictures you get when someone is talking to you. An auditory-digital modality can be very powerful with the self-talk in your mind. People make sense differently of the world and how they learn. Reality is simply what it is. There are infinite versions of every event, depending upon the observer. Our body processes an immense amount of information every moment. Information about the environment bombards the senses. The motor activity of our brain and our nervous system is used to gather sensory information about ourselves and our environment. All stimuli are received, stored, and filed by our subconscious. The three basic ways we learn are, as was mentioned earlier,:isual, auditory and kinesthetic. For each of these methods, or modalities, we usually perceive information first as external one and then form internal representations, based on our process of internalization. Switching on all the modalities we can make the process of our education most effective and profitable.
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