Next are visual learners. These people learn best by seeing someone teach the information by using concepts, data, and images to clarify the detail. They can instinctively follow directions, can easily visualize things, they have a great sense of balance and alignment, and are excellent organizers. Visual learners benefit from reading textbooks and watching someone carry out what is being taught. This is because they can process the information in a more effective in this way. They tend to be very good with location directions, critical thinking, and usually have a longer attention span than other types of learners. A variety of areas of the brain work together in order to create the descriptions we see with our eyes and are programmed by
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They are not necessarily types of how we learn, more so of ways that we learn on a daily basis. People tend to learn things simply when they want to, typically only when they are motivated. For example, my family decided that we would be getting an exchange student stay with us for 10 months over the course of the school year. Before the students arrived in the states, they were required to learn English, evidently, although the student that we received can speak close to none of English. The student has been with us for a little over four months now, and has not improved with her English-speaking skills at all. She has shown absolutely no desire to ever eventually learn the language, even though it is severely affecting her education and her experience being in a completely different country. Unintentional learning is learning we undertake by choice, usually with set out goals. It entails deciding to learn about something specific. If you were to take extra time to practice a particular sport, you would be doing so to learn more, thus, improving your skill in that activity. Unintentional learning occurs when you don’t recognize that you are actually learning anything. If you were to touch a hot stove top, you would immediately and unintentionally learn that the stove was on. This type of learning operates in our daily lives. Of course, the amount of …show more content…
In order to learn and remember, you generally have to ‘break’ an old memory and put it together with an old one. Learning overwrites old facts that are already known; like how some of our memories can change. To re-phrase this statement, your brain is not necessarily “changing” your past memories, it is more like updating them. Pretend you have just learned a new language. You learn the new language by studying, and eventually, you are able to speak it by using your memory to retrieve the words that you have learned. Memory is very essential to all learning because it allows us to store and retrieve the information that you learn. Therefore, memory depends on learning, but learning also depends on
They are not necessarily types of how we learn, more so of ways that we learn on a daily basis. People tend to learn things simply when they want to, typically only when they are motivated. For example, my family decided that we would be getting an exchange student stay with us for 10 months over the course of the school year. Before the students arrived in the states, they were required to learn English, evidently, although the student that we received can speak close to none of English. The student has been with us for a little over four months now, and has not improved with her English-speaking skills at all. She has shown absolutely no desire to ever eventually learn the language, even though it is severely affecting her education and her experience being in a completely different country. Unintentional learning is learning we undertake by choice, usually with set out goals. It entails deciding to learn about something specific. If you were to take extra time to practice a particular sport, you would be doing so to learn more, thus, improving your skill in that activity. Unintentional learning occurs when you don’t recognize that you are actually learning anything. If you were to touch a hot stove top, you would immediately and unintentionally learn that the stove was on. This type of learning operates in our daily lives. Of course, the amount of …show more content…
In order to learn and remember, you generally have to ‘break’ an old memory and put it together with an old one. Learning overwrites old facts that are already known; like how some of our memories can change. To re-phrase this statement, your brain is not necessarily “changing” your past memories, it is more like updating them. Pretend you have just learned a new language. You learn the new language by studying, and eventually, you are able to speak it by using your memory to retrieve the words that you have learned. Memory is very essential to all learning because it allows us to store and retrieve the information that you learn. Therefore, memory depends on learning, but learning also depends on