{"id":5528,"date":"2016-07-18T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T11:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/?p=5528"},"modified":"2016-07-18T11:58:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T11:58:58","slug":"learning-styles-and-the-importance-of-critical-self-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2016\/07\/18\/learning-styles-and-the-importance-of-critical-self-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Styles and the Importance of Critical Self-Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently posted a fairly lengthy blog entry about the myth of learning styles in education. The blog post was entitled <a title=\"Question: What\u2019s Your Preferred Learning Style?\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2016\/06\/16\/question-whats-your-preferred-learning-style\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Question: What\u2019s Your Preferred Learning Style?&#8217;<\/a> and it looked in some detail at the evidence against the widespread belief that students learn better when presented with information that is in their preferred learning style.<\/p>\n<p>The TEDx video below is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in learning styles. In the video, <a title=\"Tesia Marshik\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uwlax.edu\/profile\/tmarshik\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tesia Marshik<\/a>, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse, outlines some of the major arguments against learning styles and explains why, even though such beliefs are mistaken, they are so widely held.<\/p>\n<p>And a belief in preferred learning styles is not the only mistaken belief about learning that is widely held by educators &#8230; for more on this see our earlier post <a title=\"Neuromyths in Education\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2016\/06\/16\/neuromyths-in-education\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Neuromyths in Education&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image below to watch the video &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tedxtalks.ted.com\/video\/Learning-Styles-the-Importance\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5530 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/07\/tedx-screenshot-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently posted a fairly lengthy blog entry about the myth of learning styles in education. 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