Misconceptions of Learning Styles | Anita Acai | TEDxGuelphU

"From Theory to Reality" is TEDxGuelphU's 7th event that took place on January 23, 2016 at Lakeside Hope House in Downtown Guelph.

Anita obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the University of Guelph, where she was a President’s Scholar, 3M National Student Fellow, and Millennium Award Laureate. She is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Health Science Education at McMaster University. Anita was highly involved in the University of Guelph community as a writing peer helper, academic support facilitator, and a member of student government. Her research and commentary on modern pedagogical practices, the relevance of the post-secondary education sector, and experiential and skills-based learning have been featured in several peer-reviewed publications and at both national and international conferences on teaching and learning.

[tubewatchingelephant]

Nice job! Yes, the presenter is nervous but she stayed going and delivered a really solid presentation with valuable content. TED has a lot of highly polished presenters who deliver waffly content. This is much better than most of that.

[originalvonster]

2:08 learning styles do not exist
6:45 task switching poor learning
7:10 testing yourself (retrieval practice)
8:05 desirable difficulty and motivation to learn
8:30 interleaving (learning better mixing up skills)

[JohnSmith-szbz]

People always try to convince me they are good multi-taskers but I have a hard time believing that. The "task switching" you mentioned makes a lot of sense to me. I have a hard time switching my focus across multiple things and it irks me that others say they are multi-taskers when in reality they are just better task switchers.

[suskigirl]

Very informative session. Gives you something to think about when you hear people say they are great at multi-tasking.

[mettlehed]

This was informative. I started looking this topic up because I studied multiple intelligences in grad school, but never did I think I'd encounter what I do now, at work....people who pick 1 'learning style' for themselves as an excuse to not make the effort to absorb information. It's like effort isn't taken into account now...managers bend over backwards out of fear of discriminating even when there isn't an actual learning disability in play. People learn that they can just drop this pop psychology term into the conversation to excuse their own laziness.

[stevenfarrington]

Great material. I think it was a shame that she seemed so nervous during this speech. But great points!

[archana_gamit]

excellent presentation of misconceptions of learning style ... mixing up skills is better for learning

[IncDesparche]

thank you! Amazing. I've always thought these myths make no sense at all

[adithyaadiga]

Amazing talk on the prospects of language

[Prof.Dr.VirenkumarPandya]

Very live and informative lecture
-Dr Virenkumar Pandya
BDK ARTS AND COMMERCE COLLEGE GADHADA

[gayatrigovalvanshinanda]

Very Informative
Content matters more than learning style also interleaving(mixing of skills) is something which can help the learners.