Do you really trust everything you find online?
Supposedly the anwer will be NO - as the question itself is suggestive.
Not only obviously naive people make easy prey for intentionally misleading sites. In may cases, the internet-based information may be even dangerous, if you apply it without common sense and without a wider knowledge of the problem - e.g. information about health problems connected to hardselling sites.
Nevertheless, we can also find theories and questionnaires are more or less trustworthy, at least for the purpose of orientation. The analysis of personal learning styles is one of them.
Felder - Learning Styles and Strategies Inventory
theory:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSpage.html
Online questionnaire:
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
Everybody is
active sometimes and
reflective sometimes. Your preference for one category or the other may be strong, moderate, or mild. A balance of the two is desirable. If you always act before reflecting you can jump into things prematurely and get into trouble, while if you spend too much time reflecting you may never get anything done.
If you overemphasize
intuition, you may miss important details or make careless mistakes in calculations or hands-on work; if you overemphasize
sensing, you may rely too much on memorization and familiar methods and not concentrate enough on understanding and innovative thinking.
In most college classes very little
visual information is presented: students mainly listen to lectures and read material written on chalkboards and in textbooks and handouts. Unfortunately, most people are visual learners, which means that most students do not get nearly as much as they would if more visual presentation were used in class.
Sequential learners may not fully understand the material but they can nevertheless do something with it (like solve the homework problems or pass the test) since the pieces they have absorbed are logically connected. Strongly
global learners who lack good sequential thinking abilities, on the other hand, may have serious difficulties until they have the big picture.
What do the result tell about you?How do you feel about it? Isert your ideas into the comments to this blog entry.
