{"id":6132,"date":"2017-03-13T11:53:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T11:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2017-03-13T11:53:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T11:53:50","slug":"update-on-the-learning-styles-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2017\/03\/13\/update-on-the-learning-styles-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Learning Styles Debate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve written a few posts about <a title=\"Learning Styles\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/tag\/learning-styles\/\" target=\"_blank\">learning styles<\/a> in the past, and an important letter in yesterday&#8217;s Guardian added yet more support to the anti-learning styles side of the argument. Thirty academics signed a letter to the Guardian calling for teachers to end the use of learning styles and to make more use of evidence-based practices instead. Regarding the use of learning styles, the letter said that they were &#8220;ineffective, a waste of resources and potentially even damaging as &#8230; [they] can lead to a fixed approach that could impair pupils\u2019 potential to apply or adapt themselves to different ways of learning.&#8221;<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>You can read the entire letter here:\u00a0<a title=\"No evidence to back idea of learning styles\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2017\/mar\/13\/teachers-neuromyth-learning-styles-scientists-neuroscience-education\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2017\/mar\/13\/teachers-neuromyth-learning-styles-scientists-neuroscience-education<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Sally Weale (2017) <a title=\"Teachers must ditch 'neuromyth' of learning styles, say scientists\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2017\/mar\/13\/teachers-neuromyth-learning-styles-scientists-neuroscience-education\" target=\"_blank\">Teachers must ditch &#8216;neuromyth&#8217; of learning styles, say scientists<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve written a few posts about <a title=\"Learning Styles\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/tag\/learning-styles\/\" target=\"_blank\">learning styles<\/a> in the past, and an important letter in yesterday&#8217;s Guardian added yet more support to the anti-learning styles side of the argument. 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