The Biggest Myth In Education

My learning style is: being interested in the subject.

i'm a pressure learner, i only learn school material when there's severe stress and doubts about my future imposed on me

I took this VARK test in high school, and as a student who didn’t perform well, I was SOO excited to find out my learning style. I scored the exact same in all categories... seems like that wasn't the reason for my struggle. I realized that once I started taking online classes in college, I learned WAY better when I wasn't around my peers. I would make funny faces, talk out loud, gasp!, yell "what!?!," stick my tounge out, lay on the floor, walk around the room, etc. Not that I needed to have a classroom that allowed me to learn this way... but I needed to have no one else watch me learning this way. I love having a real instuctor, but not other students watching me. Now, I just simulate this by sitting at the front of the class, right in front of the teacher. No one sits in the front. Its always open. ❤

In school I found I learned best by writing things down because during tests i could remember myself writing it down. I don't think I have that learning style, I just think I was creating memories to look back on during my exams.

"I prefer to learn about things that I want to learn" - best learning style

Interesting. My learning style is: slow.

I feel like this quiz heavily relies on a persons ability to recall from memory rather than understanding and learning the answers, going home and sleeping, coming back tomorrow and still being able to know it because you learnt it rather than just you remembered. Memory fades but knowledge doesnt

That’s not learning. That’s remembering. Which could be the challenge in education… because learning is not solely about remembering.

My learning style is: "oh sh*t tomorrow's the deadline"

"how do you know you're a visual learner" "I don't, I just assumed." This guy learns

Learning a concept is not the same as memorization. It is funny the solution is to present information in as many styles as possible disproves a learning style preference. When you ask people "picture an apple in your head. From 1 - 10 with 10 being as clear as real life how well can you see that imagined apple?" You will get wildly different answers. Mind's eye seems to depend on the person, just People's tendencies to self vocalize or have music stuck in their head. Multimodal is definitely better because it increases the probabilistic nature of learning.

I love it when a teacher gives students a diagnostic to understand what kind of learner a student is or how much a student knows, but they never do anything with this information.

The best way to learn something is being actually interested in the topic.

"Most people would learn geography better with a map" That checks out

This was a reassuring video for me. I always thought that I didn't really have a learning style because it depends on the situation and material. When someone asks me that question, I usually reply with "visual" because in my memory, I tend to absorb textbook information better by reading than listening to it (and I cannot do audiobooks/podcasts). But I also remember countless times where I would read the same paragraph over and over again because I couldn't understand what was happening, and I end up having to look up a diagram, try to map it out myself, or even hear it out loud before it clicks. Thus, I never thought I was truly a visual learner, rather it was just the one that I tend to lean more into, but I definitely require a bit of everything for the best results. It's good to know there's nothing wrong with me haha. And side note, I never really understood what kinesthetic learning means when it's not like building/drawing/something active/etc. Like is doing practice problems in math or history considered "hands-on" ?

Great to read the discussion about memory not being the whole of learning. Working in Europe for the last 20 years, I see a very different emphasis on education than what I received in the US growing up...they go beyond memory at all levels of education. The taxonomy credited to Benjamin Bloom (created in the 1950's and revised in language since then) is a great way to think about how big learning is. Teachers and trainers still use this successfully in lesson planning. It can be seen as progressively going further in depth and richness of learning: Remember Understand Apply Analyze Evaluate Create In the comments, it's cool that people were essentially describing this model from their own experiences of learning!

id say whether im interested in the topic or not matters more than how its presented to me

“what kind of learner are you?” “a slow one…”

I agree I am a mixed learner. I like someone explaining & showing me, then letting me try it on my own. Now I do learn when this doesn't happen, ie. I'm only given oral instructions, but I find it comes easier/quicker for me if I can have it shown & explained, then try it myself. Plus the lesson sticks longer. For college & high school, I simply memorized by rote, usually visualizing the text book in my head, but as soon as the test was done, the information was gone, so I wouldn't call that a style of learning, since no true learning was being done.

I'm a teacher who just discovered your channel. When you asked those people what Learning Style they were I imagined what I'd say in that position and I would have said "all of them - I'm a multi-modal learner". Then you went on and talked about multimodality so I take some solace in the fact that I am doing my best for my students in following this approach.