Clark Quinn on Learning Styles

A retake on learning styles. This is a field that, in my view  has been spinning its wheels in the mud since the LSRC report by Frank Coffield et al. This is a different view, that looks at them rather than as characteristics as competencies.

Heres the post http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=647.

I think it is refreshing.  The idea of learning styles always looked clearer when seen as a set of complementary perspectives, rather than a fixed blueprint of personal characteristics. I always found it difficult to address the issue when learners said "I'm really a visual learner" in the same way as people say, for example, "Im a Leo" and I tended, perhaps a little obtusely, to focus on what they weren't. The idea being that if they are successful in one area, then they should try to develop others. Isn't that a teachers responsibility?

Competencies looks like a useful way of looking at it. I wonder how you link in learners own understandings of their "learning style" to that? Is that kind of reflection one more competency in the list, a part of the metacognitive section perhaps, or is it transversal?

Downes referred this.

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