#visual learner

[sugas6thtooth]

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #pray for palestine #visual learning #visual learner #graphs #data #social media #journalism #narrative #story #keep speaking out #speak up #israel #ceasefire #america #usa

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Abstract Many teachers and researchers, among others, continue to believe, despite the lack of evidence, that learning will be more effective if educators match their teaching approaches to students’ alleged learning styles. Scholars have called for more research on why the belief in learning styles is so appealing. This conceptual paper suggests four moral intuitions or sensibilities that underlie the appeal: (1) the desire for rational control, (2) our sense of justice, (3) the feeling that everyone is unique, and (4) reverence for the natural. Speaking to these intuitions could strengthen efforts to debunk the myth of learning styles in teacher education.

[..] Experts aren’t sure how the concept spread, but it might have had something to do with the self-esteem movement of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Everyone was special—so everyone must have a special learning style, too. Teachers told students about it in grade school. “Teachers like to think that they can reach every student, even struggling students, just by tailoring their instruction to match each student’s preferred learning format,” said Central Michigan University’s Abby Knoll, a PhD student who has studied learning styles. (Students, meanwhile, like to blame their scholastic failures on their teacher’s failure to align their teaching style with their learning style.)

Either way, “by the time we get students at college,” said the Indiana University professor Polly Husmann, “they’ve already been told ‘You’re a visual learner.’” Or aural, or what have you.

The thing is, they’re not. Or at least, a lot of evidence suggests that people aren’t really one certain kind of learner or another. In a study published last month in the journal Anatomical Sciences Education, Husmann and her colleagues had hundreds of students take the Vark questionnaire to determine what kind of learner they supposedly were. The survey then gave them some study strategies that seem like they would correlate with that learning style. Husmann found that not only did students not study in ways that seemed to reflect their learning style, those who did tailor their studying to suit their style didn’t do any better on their tests.

Husmann thinks the students had fallen into certain study habits, which, once formed, were too hard to break. Students seemed to be interested in their learning styles, but not enough to actually change their studying behavior based on them. And even if they had, it wouldn’t have mattered.

“I think as a purely reflective exercise, just to get you thinking about your study habits, [Vark] might have a benefit,” Husmann said. “But the way we’ve been categorizing these learning styles doesn’t seem to hold up.”

Another study published last year in the British Journal of Psychology found that students who preferred learning visually thought they would remember pictures better, and those who preferred learning verbally thought they’d remember words better. But those preferences had no correlation to which they actually remembered better later on—words or pictures. Essentially, all the “learning style” meant, in this case, was that the subjects liked words or pictures better, not that words or pictures worked better for their memories.

In other words, “there’s evidence that people do try to treat tasks in accordance with what they believe to be their learning style, but it doesn’t help them,” says Daniel Willingham, a psychologist at the University of Virginia. In 2015, he reviewed the literature on learning styles and concluded that “learning styles theories have not panned out.”

That same year, a Journal of Educational Psychology paper found no relationship between the study subjects’ learning-style preference (visual or auditory) and their performance on reading- or listening-comprehension tests. Instead, the visual learners performed best on all kinds of tests. Therefore, the authors concluded, teachers should stop trying to gear some lessons toward “auditory learners.” “Educators may actually be doing a disservice to auditory learners by continually accommodating their auditory learning style,” they wrote, “rather than focusing on strengthening their visual word skills.”

In our conversation, Willingham brought up another study, published in 2009, in which people who said they liked to think visually or verbally really did try to think that way: Self-proclaimed visualizers tried to create an image, and self-proclaimed verbalizers tried to form words. But, there was a rub, he said: “If you’re a visualizer and I give you pictures, you don’t remember pictures any better than anyone who says they’re verbalizer.”

This doesn’t mean everyone is equally good at every skill, of course. Really, Willingham says, people have different abilities, not styles. Some people read better than others; some people hear worse than others. But most of the tasks we encounter are only really suited to one type of learning. You can’t visualize a perfect French accent, for example.

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Considering the sources of teacher training, Ed Schools, are extremely highly ideological, the perpetuation of this "neuromyth" is probably not an accident or misunderstanding.

These are the schools that have attached quasi-religious overtones to their preferred, but ineffective, process of teaching kids to read, and have been denying evidence-based methods for decades.

#learning styles #pseudoscience #education #corruption of education #neuroscience #myths #science #VARK #visual learner #auditory learner #reading learner #kinesthetic learner #junk science #religion is a mental illness

[bettaworldforbettas]

Nitrogen cycle in aquariums

When an aquarium is cycled, there are colonies of beneficial bacteria established that help to filter waste and toxic compounds. 

Ammonia and nitrite are very harmful, but they will naturally occur when a fish is present (through fish food and waste). This is why it's important that there are enough bacteria established that can quickly consume and convert ammonia and nitrite.

In a cycled aquarium, ammonia and nitrite levels should be 0 and nitrate levels should be low. Regular water changes are still necessary for removing excess nitrates and maintaining water quality.

The process of cycling an aquarium can take several weeks before it is safe to add fish.

#betta #bettablr #fish #fishblr #aquarium #betta splendens #fishkeeping #betta fish #fishwelfare #nitrogencycle #cycledaquarium #goldfish #cycledtank #aquariumfish #visual learner #beneficialbacteria #pet care #pet fish #pet #pets

[ghosttontheshore]

whats. a william beckeyt

#visual learner

[svmetal]

if someone tells me to tell them something interesting about myself im showing them my pinterest boards That's the closest to what i am now

#visual learner

[just-a-bottle-of-chaos]

If I could find one damn good example of what the actual hell a literary analysis essay actually is? That would be great. My teacher literally only explained it verbally but I’m a verbal and visual teacher and I’m just???? If I can’t see how the paper is supposed to flow I can’t write it. Anyways, somewhat procrastinated this 4-5 page paper that’s due on Sunday because my teacher didn’t reply to my questions 🤪

#intro to lit #literary analysis #pls help #visual learner #how do you flow??? #chaos rambles

[sugas6thtooth]

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #israel #pray for palestine #ceasefire #america #usa #gaza strip #infrastructure #genocide #ethnic cleansing #climate change #mass destruction #data #graphs #visual learner #hospitals #mosque #homes #houses #school #schools #churches

[a-fools-whim]

Receiving verbal instruction is my kryptonite fr fr

I just can't man. Like yeah I HEAR what you're saying but it's just sounding like a butt load of gibberish rn.

And then I just decide to fucking wing the task given to me and guess at what you want done.

#visual learner #I MUS SEE IT WITH MY EYE BALLS BRO #OTHERWISE I'LL BE COMPLETELY LOST #i have horrible listening skills esp when I'm not actively paying attention

[menacingcloud]

clitical hit on transphobe

#196 #tw: transphobia #smartest transphobe #seriously what the hell it it? #im a visual learner

[werecreature-addicted]

Plsss write smth with lesbian werewolf or cryptid or eldritch horror 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️ I love your writing sm 🤗🤗🤗

Lesbian werewolf who agrees to do housework around your home in exchange for sex and sexual favors. She seems to know a little of everything and no job is too big or too small for her, as long as you're willing to pay of course.

Sure you could pay a plumber to come over and stop your toilet from running, or you could have a couple drinks with her, and she'll get around to fixing your shit eventually, but first you gotta bounce on her thick callous fingers like a good pup, get yourself nice and wet but don't cum- be a good girl for her and she'll get you everything you need.

You could also probably hang a shelf by yourself, there are a million tutorials on YouTube on how to do it, or you could just put a stud finder on her chest and go "found one!" and she'll pound into you for a good three hours straight before she puts up your shelf in under five minutes and goes right back to being in between your legs.

You don't own power tools, why would you? All you have to do is gag on her strap for a little while and she'll let you borrow whatever you need- or if you're a good little slut for her, and finger her while sucking her strap she'll do whatever the fuck it is you need done anyways. Doesn't want her little puppy breaking a nail putting together furniture or whatever.

She's pretty good with just basic around-the-house stuff but she's not as good with cars so if you want her to work on yours it's gonna cost you. Costs exactly one butch werewolf girl sitting on your face until she cums so hard her thighs shake.

Sometimes she comes over, not to fix anything just to drink your beer sit on your couch, and relax after work. She loves it when you rub her shoulders or massage her feet after a long day. You'll whisper that she works too hard, that she deserves to relax and be treated like a princess.

She lays back on the couch and lets you get on top of her she doesn't have to do anything but feel good. Sex is a lot softer and slower when you top, less rushed and animalistic, and more indulgent and doting. no favors, no work to be done. just you and your werewolf princess.

#monster imagine #monster fucker #monster #teratophillia #werewolf #werewolf x reader #werewolves #werewolf girlfriend #monster girlfriend #monster girl #I believe in masc bottoms #and I am a visual learner btw

[gayvampyr]

ok so i think i’ve noticed a trend between preferences for types of math and science while talking to other people so i want to try and test out a hypothesis

obviously there are more types of science and math but i want to test the correlation between these specifically

#polls #science #math #geometry #algebra #chemistry #biology #i think the connection is whether you’re more of a visual learner and grasp physical concepts #or you’re more of a theoretical thinker and don’t have issues with intangible ideas or things #which is why i prefer algebra and chemistry. i find biology difficult because there’s just so much memorization involved and you can’t #really think or puzzle your way through it the way you can with chemistry #i mean you can but. it’s a different process #idk

[bomikalover]

*tears rolling down my face* So you're telling me I won't see my fav pals acting their little Italian hearts out in SwordAF?? (I'm not ok.)

Dt🫶🏾: @tame-a-messenger @guessitrunsinthegenes @jovenshires @damndamngela @smoshkid @anggiarratana

#As a visual learner Sword AF NEEDS to be in video form 😭 #making Damangela and Shaynse edits to heal the pain #damangela #damngela #damien and angela #damien x angela #damien/angela #damien haas #angela giarratana #smosh duos #smoshblr #smosh games #smosh #smosh edit #smosh cast #smosh pit #my fav italians

[fellxthecat]

wtf is a fat cock friday

#i am a visual learner