Urban Legends in Education

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Urban Legends in Education

Learning Styles

"Children are more alike than different in terms of how they think and learn."

"Claim 3: Many or even all of the intelligences should be used as conduits when presenting new material. That way each student will experience the material via his or her best intelligence, and thus each student's understanding will be maximized."

"Gardner disavows this idea and he is right to do so. Mathematical concepts have to be learned mathematically"

Learning styles studies have not shown that better or more learning has occurred when the learners preferred style is employed.

Learning Styles are self-reported and catering to a learner's preferred style may not "be good for them"

Cognitive ability or "the capacity for success in certain types of thought" may be influencing the self-reporting.

Self-Educators (on the internet)

The half-life of knowledge theory discounts the relevance of "old" knowledge.

Digital Natives

Generations who grew up with electronics are also not good at multitasking

Use of electronics does not equate to "skill" in constructing meaningful knowledge.