That man was just straight to the point.

Built different

wait, did he just assumed his learning style?

He had a hypothesis that he was a visual learner and he was ready to test it out.

@@Segovaxxx better than assuming a gender. Safer too.

strong emotion melts the learning material together

Facts

based

Probably more a memorizer than a learner, then.

Looool nice

I always preferred sitting in the front row. Less distractions

Even Team Front

This comment is dope

lol why were you yelling on the floor with your tongue out in school are you on the spectrum

Also depends whether you right or left brain dominant, tactile or like moving, lot of factors needs to be considered and classroom teaching with more than 15 pupils makes it incredibly difficult.

same

Yup. There you go.

If I was interested in something actually useful, I would have a PhD half way through high school😂

More teachers are using student choice and self selection of materials. They'll simplify this method to its detriment, too!

bad strategy at school.

Yeah. I came here to make a similar comment. And by 'similar' I mean I was going to refer to him as "an absolute science gangster".

@@andyjohnson4907 Well, that's the technical term. 👍🏽

Google trying to enforce that we are all unique in some way that gives us benefits. Critical race theory whatnot. It seemed like veritasium started to backpedal on that idea though when he revealed that people employ memory strategies rather than simply being genetically dominant

seriously loved that

What a BAMF

It's called reconciliation of memories.

Yeah, that's a big reason why one of my teachers insists on us taking handwritten notes rather than typed notes, cause handwritten notes are supposed to make a stronger memory than typing

That’s actually true! If you wrote things down besides reading them and all the others things you make a better connection in your brain so you can recall it better! Just like he said; a combination of different styles is the best way to learn

This comment needs to be way higher. Learning and remembering are two very different things

​@@choui4i think a better way of explaining it is to say its more valuable to learn how to think, which is different from just remembering. Learning and remembering are not so different, but having a good memory doesnt help you understand what you remember

​​@@enterpassword3313 Synthesis of new ideas from what we have learned or memorized is the result of applying what was learned. Public schools don't teach innovation or push people to synthesize new ideas. They teach to prepare for state tests. Memorization.

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Exams are all about memory. The school system needs to change. Need to take a bigger roll and what the children are talk to follow through at home with love and kindness.!!!!

Share this with other teachers

Répétition is key for me as well

I'd agree except this bores the hell out of those of us who got it the first time and don't wanna spend a week on one thing.

@@Wally03 They are probably quite busy teaching, and teaching well by the sounds of things. Perhaps the education policy makers, who are not teachers, and are much more influenced by political trends would be better to deal with this. Perhaps you could write a letter to your local representative?

I've been saying that for years with a lot of pushback from older teachers.

Yes

Natural curiosity makes you go ahead and find any source to learn about. It doesn't matter if text, visual, kinestethic or auditive. Everything will do and the whole mixture of those is great to learn anything

How to fail In school 101

one of the best comment i ever seen

Autodidactic 😉

Same for me. It all depended on what was being taught. For example: spelling, or, geography, was just visually seeing and memorizing. But something like anatomy was part visual and part "hands on" in dissecting and then seeing. I worked in manufacturing for a while and when I first started, I had to be there and watch someone set up a machine. But, there was so much information to remember that, after watching a setup, I had an overall understanding of what needed to be done but I needed an "instructor" there with me as I was doing the hands on part to remember the little details that there was no way to remember it all until I had the repetition. This frustrated me because I can remember being in school and just intently listening to a, say...history discussion and remember the important points. So I think the "best" or "smartest" students (or learners) are comfortable with every method of "learning". If you are too rigid and only learn "visually" for example, how can anyone ever explain anything to you?

No, doing practice problems would not be a kinaesthetic learning method. That would fall under reading and writing or visual learner. Kinaesthetic learners find it easiest and funnest to incorporate information (especially new information) using their entire body. If the child were to go over math drills or flash cards at home - they would enjoy to do so while bouncing on a small trampoline, or with the reward of bouncing or showing a trick every 3 correct problems. To introduce math topics, you would use manipulatives like base ten counting blocks, buttons, raisins, etc. something they can group up and move around to better take in the information. This will also please the visual learner. You can prepare numbers taped to the floor and have the kids jump from number to number when learning skip counting. You can have them go look around the room for items that would weigh less than a pound, have them bring them to you and then check their guess with a kitchen scale. You could do body movements like dancing or excersize while doing math facts or something more rote. Or you can let them doodle or draw in class, or kick their legs back and forth in their chair, or move about the room during the “boring/hard” part. Isn’t it funny that we are all discussing the learning styles the video is trying to suggest do no exist? Learning styles are valuable, personal information to have for learning how you find it easiest to process new information. The commenter we have replied to needs to be able to pace or react physically in order to allow the information to go deeper (to assimilate/incorporate) on a first attempt - that is so valuable!!!! I am glad you found that out about yourself, @carmenmintrose. When I took the VARK learning test, I was high in each area. It was explained to me that instead of having a brain with only a door and a window open, I had a brain with a door and all the windows open. I personally needed to receive information through more than one of those openings to be able to make sense of it. In other words, in more than one method in order to grasp it quicker. I was often a slower learner, especially when I found the material difficult, BUT, when I understood it, I understood it from several angles. I am also not nearly as slow to learn now that I am older because I can access all the old pathways made over time and hold a ton of information that I can access and use to make more recent, “new” connections faster. This is the reason why those who often require more than one discipline to study well, can make great teachers. They can look at their student, see the information isn’t getting through and try an entirely different approach (or take a brain/activity break) on a dime a because they have had to do that for themselves all along!

​@@colettemartinez1341 we're talking about learning styles because that's what the video is about 🤦

Kinesthetic learnings have kinetic energy

The point is the information on the book is write not image and isn't the same thing. So why to you think you are visual leaerner?

Sounds like PPP (Present, Practice, Production).. Anyway, all different names for approaches that may or may not be scientifically based but have varying degrees of merit.

So sorry you were exposed to such a doctrinaire fool. I hope you managed to escape his insular and myopic clutches.

Yea but now supposedly that doesn't work they really push group work which is stupid!

@@brucedavis3816 Group work is emphasized because if kids are interested in each others' outcomes and tutor each other, then you functionally end up with more than one teacher and more classes than what the subject allotted, which helps somewhat cover the major weakness of trying to teach 20+ students at the same time on a tiny budget of hours per week.

Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Involve me and I will learn. -Benjamin Franklin

Damn never thought i'd see you here

hi user

I agree with you that interest is very important, but I disagree that will lead to learning by itself. You can be deeply interested in a subject, but if no one presents that information to you, or at least in a intelligible way, then you will never understand no matter how much you want to know. This is excluding experimenting things and discovering it yourself. Having an interest is important nonetheless. If your teacher is presenting the material poorly, your innate interest will lead to you seeking out that information elsewhere. But that other source of information still need to present it in a understandable way. If you aren't interested, that won't happen. Interest just means you are more willing to find alternative forms of presentation.

I disagree. I think that if you find a good enough presenter, they would find ways to hook you in, no matter the topic

A good presentation will make you feel interested - that's what a good presentation is. That's why channels like Veritasium and Vsauce are so popular

You can also take the people and the map to the geography.

Nah just tell them it is 5 thousand miles north of the south pole and 12 thousand south of the north pole and 60 thousand west of the Philippines they will know exactly where its at that way.

Sorry, but I Do learn way faster by observing visual information in combination with text. An image helps a lot to remember stuff... Am I a visual learner: well I learn faster and with more ease.

@@facefact3737 hey should watch the video fully

@@engelsseele2 That may actually just be a matter of what you're used to. After all, I can completely relate those numbers to eachother in any other context and they give in fact a way better picture of the relation of one place to another than does a map, simply because just visually gauging seems to be very inaccurate, let alone the fact that maps distort A LOT due to projections, so learning the size of Russia by looking at a map is quite literally the WORST thing you can do, because its apparent size on a map is like twice its actual size.

Absolute legend

Genius man that accepts his own limitations

More honest than most

He spoiled the whole video from begining.

he must have seen something!

Procastinator

That's my style too!!

@@Jetoro the best learning experience is where your heart is beating like a rabbit

My preferred learning style is the adrenaline rush 10 minutes before the test

@@Jetoro should have added "the"

This is known as "Confirmation Bias"

And it applies to so many fields

That's why indoctrination is always a bad idea.

A test that tests sequence memorisation says very little about the success of a learning style.

A statement that best describe the majority of research done in education

Or to memorize every problem.

So by extension, the best teacher is one who manages to make/keep their students interested.

Yes

Absolutely. Also, if your job compels you to learn about it...

@@elmz Yesss . That's it

"Any empirical data on that?" "No I made it up to make me feel better" would end so many arguments, and its not even shameful its just understandable

Socrates would be pleased.

How did you succeed in making a comment with 7 rows to be presented here without YT breaking it by adding "read more"?

@@damyr Personally I had to click "read more". Are you positive you didn't click it so automatically that you didn't realize you had? I've done stuff like that before.

Well most of the science that we were taught was developed after assuming a lot of stuff

A person with an Ed.D. put a whole paragraph about "learning styles" into their cover letter applying for a job at a university I work at. It's really not dead, sadly, especially among K-12 and education schools.

i was waitijng for this comment

About the post the same comment :D

He knows enough to realize how much he doesn't know.

"Dude, trust me." Absolutely based and gigachad.

Was Just about to comment that myself

see my comment

Exactly

@Dyanosis not true at all 😂😂 maybe you’re just dumb. Plenty of courses I had ZERO interest in yet retained clear information ☠️

isn't that literally everyone?

Agreed :3

Especially without distraction.

Whatchu know about rolling down in the deep

Yep, entirely about engagement.

I totally agree, the worst teachers I've had, mostly didn't care and just went on to give the class and hoped we copied everything

@@Dhrakhan when your brain goes numb you can call that mental freeze

I kinda get what you're saying, but I don't think lying or pretending that something exists and matters is a healthy way to maintain interest from your students. Especially when it could be harmful to make your students think they're bad at learning in a certain way when they are not.

Lol can relate so bad.

Lol! Mine too!

Lol me too 😂

Slow, but detailed learning, my friend.

Me brain in study or in exam Pls help My brain when playin WT/WoT LT go here, defend this flank, kill that R3 T20, arty annoying LT kick their ass, flank enemy is weak and cant spread tank anymore, rush he need to reload

Smell: what about me?

I'm a taste learner. I have to taste the topics related objects to understand yhem

I guess taste testers are a myth then 😂

Bonus points comedy

Taste is bad in science take a bite of mercury or sulpheric acid, or asbestos and see how long you will live, or swallow a pice of plutonium.

Not really, concentration certainly is needed but NOONE can be concentrated at everything, thus there's a "preference" to classify/separate on what's important to what isn't, and usually one of the ways to "increase capacity" of what can be learned is writing things down Or, at least that's how I did/do.. :)

So, distinction without a difference?

and the ones that learn the best across all subjects tend to be one's that employ learning techniques that are not actively taught by the teacher. This is why vocab is such a poor subject for many kids. not many people will just learn a list of words and definitions even when used in stories. meanwhile if you have multiple activities for each concept, when tested on the material you will see better results. Especially when activities engage more.

haha GOT'EM

I’m too poor to pay attention.

Exactly, the practical use of cognition into anki spaced repetition is more credible than VARK.

or when the teacher is not old and smelly.

That is a critical flaw in the video. Learning and understanding are different. Understanding a diagram is different from being able to do it a year later. People have different "understanding" styles, and learning is fixing it in your memory to make it yours through time.

Musical instruments and learning; thinking about music you are learning increases your ability to play it on an instrument. 2weeks without an instrument BUT thinking about playing on that instrument will speed the ability to play any tune on an instrument. I.e get it in your head

Yeah, like he said "Learning Styles" is probably more a personal preference. Like i am personally fascinated by animations of mechanical interactions, but they alone probably wont help me learn how a combustion engine works without a written or spoken explanation of whats happening. Likewise i also prefer to look up text-based tutorials on things i immediately want to learn in, say, photoshop, than watching a youtube tutorial. Despite myself believing that im more of a "visual learner".

My soulmate. 🤣

Oh so you are like me: a procrastinator

OH MY GOD 🤣🤣🤣😆

Paused the video to read the comments. I’ll come back soon

Which is a good strategy if you are stressed and tired today. If you always are tired and stressed you should adress this before embarking on learning. It is totally worth it: learning is the most mind altering drug out there ;-) And how will you "cheat" the laws of nature by near-magic like mobile phones, penicillin and robots if you don't know the rules?

Woah!

When I saw the views, I just assumed this was like a week old, but I looked at the time after seeing your comment. It's only been up for 5hrs, and it's 3/4 of the way to a million views already.💫 It's a relevant topic. In school, I was frustrated with how the material we had access to in middle school was divided up based on "learning style," which meant nobody had access to all of the explanatory information. It seemed counterproductive when we could've instead learned to share, providing everyone with all the necessary material.

This is still an average performing video... Also audience of a science KZfaqr ≠ "the public"

i like your optimism but people who watch science videos on youtube are not a cross-section of the public

That's anecdotal and unscientific

Is that confirmation bias?

@@JD-ib4cr Yes and he has an interesting video about that topic also.

confirmation bias is definitely way too common and holds our society back.

Idk why but isn't what you quoted the same thing it's arguing about?

As I was reading this he said the exact same sentence bc I forgot to pause the video

From experience, I agree. I started a math major in college and had amazing results. I always took things I learned and tried to tackle impossible problems in mathematics with those. It still helps me today now that I've switched to a bachelor's in computer science and am now learning to code.

You also be nimble, be creative, and spark connections in your brain. Manipulate the new information to suit any new curiosities and do it often.

There's no substitute for passion!

I personally also program, and I don't honestly have a reason, I just do it as a hobby, well a hobby that I spend every second on but still a hobby.

Absolutely true, this.

This is amplified in ADHD students. Studies have found that ADHD students are under represented in engineering, but run circles around "normal" students in engineering when they are taught with a stronger emphasis on intuition based learning and applying the learning in a gratifying way. People with ADHD are incapable of staying focused if they do not see relevance in what they are learning. IMO, there are a lot more people with undiagnosed ADHD than realized. I don't even think its a disorder, just a different type of cognition. The systems in place simply don't facilitate this learning style because they just want to have students memorize cookie cutter problems for exams and get them pushed through as quickly as possible.

Autistic until proven otherwise here. This is so true. If someone doesn't want to learn, or doesn't see the value in what they're learning, they simply won't, because they don't care. My preferred learning style is games. Probably so is everyone's. If you make a game out of it, kids will remember things better. Teachers be like, "why can y'all memorize these rap songs but not the periodic table of the elements?" Because it's not fun and they don't care. They don't see the value in learning the periodic table of the elements beyond not wanting to get in trouble with their parents. For me, learning itself was fun. The process of learning was fun. No other kid I knew felt this way. If kids aren't engaged, you gotta find a way to appeal to them, and make it fun.

I love that both the replies are about autism and adhd, since I was about to go on a rant about the same thing lol. I’ve always thought my learning style was “doing” or I guess kinetic, but that’s really because when I’m doing something I’m actively engaged and I *want* to be. Chemistry for me this past year was fun and interesting because it was new and exciting, algebra 2 was the worst math class I’ve ever taken because it wasn’t… but trig at the end of the year was fun. The best way to get students to retain information is to get them engaged and having fun, instead of stressing the crap out of them and using traditional methods that are way outdated.

@@jenius9164 I would like to "softly" dispute this. I'm ADHD and college was hell for me. However, I love to learn. I think learning new things is one of the most satisfying aspects of being alive. The problem for me was learning in SCHOOL. Being forced to learn was no longer learning to me. It was a chore. And I hate chores. Often times, I would be interested in a subject, but would not get a good final grade. I think learning in school is a completely different thing from learning in general.

MAKE THIS MAN PRESIDENT

istg hahah

My brother said i can get new potato if i can get 1k subs

I thought the same thing. I said out loud to my cat, "I like that dude."

2:59

@@rern5998 My brother said i can get new potato if i can get 1k subs

Same with me! Their passion was contagious and I would find myself having the same type of motivation as them to learn/do the work

Agree with you. If the presentation is interesting, then I was ready to accept any style. I think the successful learning is more about skillful communication between the teacher and the students rather than learning styles.

I thought your last name was Veritasium XD

This right here should be thought about so much more. The two classes I’ve taken thus far in college that I really enjoyed and felt like I learned a lot from were the two taught by teachers who were well incorporated into the subject and loved their work.

100% agreed seeing another person be so unabashedly passionate about a subject is magnetic to me and instantly makes me many more time interested and focused on what they have to say.

Haha 😂😂 me too

Relatable

as an autistic guy i felt that

Oof, saaame. I tend to hold onto information very strongly when I do learn it, but I'm a slow learner and I can get overwhelmed really easily.

I´m the kind of guy who has to repeat at least 10x to learn something new...

If you have a student who is almost blind are you going to show them more pictures?

Of course we bought into this. A concerning number of my K12 teachers bought into this too. Almost total reinforcement from the outset for this line of thinking.

This video is so interesting because there are a number of articles that deal with learning and pedagogical practice in terms of learning style. Especially concerning indigenous cultures.

I strongly regret my past 2 yrs in university having the exact mindset u mentioned... After realizing book is one of the the best methods, learning became less tougher. (Never easy though...)

There's the pitfall we have to be wary of in accepting "everyone learns the same way" though. That being, people will throw those with learning disabilities or just take a little longer to understand a topic under the bus (as we tend to do already). Despite the fact there's plenty of dyslexic people, for example, who have contributed to science (since we value that so much). Also, doing well in school isn't indicative of future success. My mother who's a nurse said a lot of straight A students weren't cut for real work, just to give a personal example. There's plenty out there though. There's more to this than just "everyone learns the same". What about teaching styles? Genetics? Cultural values? Use of language? Environment? Mental states/stresses? Or maybe something we haven't thought of yet. This stuff is not as cut and dry as so many people think it is. That within itself is why it's so heavily debated and controversial.

@@korinoriz This. The difference the New Zealand teacher saw between teachers may not be down to "learning styles", but to 'seeing' the individual pupil. If a teacher listen to the pupil and accommodate the pupil feel safe and valued and this further learning. When the pupil is on board with learning the teacher can nudge the pupil in a direction of instruction that makes the teacher's life easier. Trying to do it the other way around disconnect a substantial percentage of pupils from learning. Sadly the focus today is on "efficiency" and standardization and the-devil-take-the-rest. I would posit that we are currently sacrificing ~10% of pupils because they have a hard time moving in lockstep, not because they are unable to learn.

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Good job

Are you an active or a passive sonar learner?

😂😂😂

I learn Geography better by not being American 😁😆🤣🤣🤣

Self awareness is so underrated

Or you are making an assumption of him being a hero.

red pilled

yeah same I thought that was very self-aware of him

He eats mushrooms

and you is are ahead of the keyboard here

@@aka0989 😂😂😂

Bro, you is was good at grammar! 👍

@@FBT_12 is are*

@@CurvaceousCrow but if is was be who then what was is isn't?

That's a dude who's really learned something from the world.

@@Diditallforthexp No, he just never questioned anything.

He has a Assumption style of learning

I think this is the best answer for this learning model.

I like his honesty XD

I feel this in my bones.

Ooof same

@@DyslexicMitochondria hey bro I watch your videos. Love your channel

There's a subculture for that.

There is a saying I am fond of. If it didn't hurt - you didn't learn anything. While not true in all scenarios I definitely see a LOT of people who aren't learning simply because their actions did not yield a suitable pain response.

Exactly

Agreed! I bought into "learning styles" for years until I was taught about multi-modal teaching in my Elementary education program in college.

Absolutely, agreed. I always find it that explaining a new learned topic to another person helps me so much with retaining the knowledge.

I always figured people learn more if you say it- and write it on the white board- and draw a diagram or mime it out- because the more you repeat it the more its retained- I always thought the learning style thing sounded bogus.

exactly right. And if you want to pull it up on a higher note: if this video and this utterance is correct, it means that we can finally put bruners theory of the multiple intelligences to rest. Not to take anything away from anybody, but to kill this PC movement, that is taking over everything these days

the most real guy out of everyone interviewed

Sounds like a physicist to me!

He was the closest to the truth.

i am glad they didnt cut him out! he's so honest and I love it.

Exactly my issue with the research in the subject. Especially young kids seem to remember pictures better than words. My other issue is that (some) researchers in the field have generalized the results so declare that there are no differences- reflective vs active- etc. on things that require "deep processing." I just don't see the data to be able to rule them out. I taught college physics for 15 years, and I *think* I saw differences. But I don't know because I wasn't carefully measuring. I am curious, though.

A rare species those teachers are

I interviewed a lot of very good teachers - almost all were good storytellers and used humour in their teaching. It didn’t matter how they lectured (or didn’t lecture). It seems in a non scientific perspective that what mattered is their in classroom charisma.

Robin and B X both say it well. I call it cranking the fun machine. Charisma and humor both depend on correct loading, which avoids both boredom and overwhelm, only possible when the teacher is tuned in to the feedback, which comes in all forms. And you have to engage to get any feedback at all. Hilarity is a dependable feature of a good dynamic. Hook them. Lead them to surprise and delight. Rinse. Repeat.

so u want a clown not a teacher

... And this is where almost all my teachers sucked at

You and the rest of Asia

@@Aname550 I'm asian, i also don't convinced this style. Exercise and study like hell like the rest of asian and you're good to go. The most good strategy is to remember back what you learned before.

Test

Lmao

Experience is your best teacher. Theoretical learning can never be as efficient as learning by experience. Like programming, you are better off doing coding than just listening to lecture and watch some tutorials. I also find it better to play it with, like test and stuff.

Yeah he said his experiment was not perfect. He did cite studies who did more thorough experiments

​​@@alifrahman7099 not only is it not perfect, but it is not sufficient to conclude anything about learning. I am baffled by how many people think they are learning something from this video.

@@CovenoftheOpenMind dont talk in a gay way btw

@@CovenoftheOpenMind Are you the guy who made VARK

@@Forsen807 what is VARK? I think most of psychology is bull. Psychology is a soft science.

Yes. But I'd add that there is a takeaway that a multi-modal approach is usually stronger than a singular approach. Actual skateboarding is an absolute must. However the skateboarder who watches a few internet tutorials or listens to skateboarding podcasts might improve slightly faster than one who just practices their skateboard.

@@AdamZollo - Multimodal is superior only because it increases the number of ways that information can be stored in the brain. If you treat learning as probabilistic, where any given learning method has a 50% chance of success no matter who you're dealing with, flipping a coin once on a single learning style means only half the students will actually learn the material. Flip it twice, and 75% of the students get the material on the first day. Flip it four times, and 93.75% of students will learn the material completely on the first day. Presenting any given topic with multiple different approaches will maximize learning for purely probabilistic reasons.

​@@cerebraldreams4738 From my master studies, it is more than just there being more opportunities to learn or "flipping a coin". It comes down to building a more robust neural schema with more "nodes" if you will. Take two groups and teach 100 kids to spell a word they've never heard before. Let's go with Kaiju. Take 10 minutes to show them all how to spell it and tell them briefly what it means. With the second group, also show them a picture of a few Kaiju within that same 10 minutes period. Wait a day, then test both groups on their spelling of Kaiju. My understanding is that group two will be expected to perform better at the task (spelling "Kaiju") even though they actually wasted some time looking at pictures (which isn't even about spelling). This is not because they "flipped more coins" but rather because they've built a bigger neural schema. In fact, those students may close their eyes and visualize a picture they saw to draw out the memory of the spelling. This is similar to the whole idea of creating a memory home.

I know I'm a little late to the party, but this comment right here, absolutely just lost it, that is hilarious.

When I was a kid i found an owner's manual for a Cessna 172 aircraft. I studied it and studied it, made my own drawings, reread parts, made lists of positions of controls, etc. After a year I was certain I could fly a plane. As luck would have it, a few years later I had the chance and...I couldn't.

Are you blind?

@@orphanoforbit7588 I don't think they're going to see your comment.

Oh man

Actually there are some blind people who are visual learners xd

@@Vendrimavir Maybe they will hear the comment. Text to speech is a thing...

The American School System Is Trash And It Will Continue To Be So Until Someone Does Something Drastic That Will Either Overthrow The Current System Or Force It To Become Better.

If you only teach a single way, you're the problem. At least the learning styles encourage teachers to use multiple methods of explaining the same things.

@@tgamer1510 It is a rather large leap to go from an ideological disagreement with a debunked dogma to the assumption that one who disagrees with the theory of learning styles must therefore only teach in one way. I typically teach any given concept in two ways, and try to vary which ways I use from concept to concept. But the principle behind a learning-styles approach is the idea that each student should be taught each concept according to their own learning style, not multiple learning styles. In some applications of this principle (including most of the studies purporting to support this theory), students are separated into cohorts with shared learning styles, and then exclusively taught according to that learning style. In that format, learning styles do not, as you put it, encourage teachers to use multiple methods of explaining the same things, they encourage a lack of variety in teaching methods -- they encourage teachers to always use the same one method, which not only does not turn out to improve student learning despite supposedly respecting each student's learning style, it also eliminates the well-known benefits of teaching a single concept in multiple ways (a principle with which I think we both agree). Conversely, if the students are not grouped according to learning styles cohorts (as I think is probably the more common case), then the doctrine implies that each concept should be taught not only according to more than one style, but that each concept should be taught numerous times, according to each of however many learning styles one happens to accept as meaningful (one of the principal problems that must be determined before any attempt to apply the doctrine). And while I agree that each new re-explanation according to another learning style would improve learning, each new mode also comes with diminishing returns, and we need to take account of the amount of classroom time that is available to teach any given concept when we really need to be moving on to the next concept. There are an enormous number of ideas floating around about how to improve student learning, each of which takes time. Or, as a compromise, we can try to engage all of the learning modalities in a single explanation; from an ideological perspective, this is liable to be a poor compromise, since it may not allow any of the students to fully engage with the topic according to their own learning styles -- not that this matters, of course, since the learning styles are a myth anyway -- but from a practical perspective, this also requires considerably more time, some of which occurs in class and would therefore slow down class progress, but a great of additional time is also required to plan lessons of this kind. And whatever expectations we might have about the amount of time teachers should spend planning their lessons, we are forced to acknowledge that there are ultimate limits dictated by the number of hours in a day. I would rather use what limited time I have available for each concept using methodologies that bring greater returns. In no other field that I know of is it a virtue to continue blindly adhering to debunked hypotheses.

@@MusiMasterJam I didn't bother reading your entire reply because I noted that you said I made an assumption when in fact I didn't. I merely said "If you only teach a single way, you're the problem" I never said you did this, nor does my statement imply that's what I was trying to say. I mean it's not really debunked, until you do any testing on a larger or at least better scale. A few hundred similarly educated people in the trial here cannot accurately represent entire populations.

@@tgamer1510 Point taken. Though I would note that the literature debunking learning styles is extensive. Willingham, D., E. Hughes, and D. Dobolyi (2015), "The Scientific Status of Learning Styles Theories", Teaching of Psychology, Vol. 42(3), 266-71 cites nearly a dozen reviews of the literature spanning from as early as the late 1970s to as recently as the mid 2010s demonstrating the failure to support the theory (see especially p. 267). The conclusion that learning styles are now debunked rests by no means on a small body of evidence.

Great comment

I’ve heard learning styles now referred to as learning preferences. The difference being that preferences change in different contexts and over time vs. something you’re born with that doesn’t change.

@@scottclare7502 exactly it's not one way someone who's watching a video to learn will change to reading it depends of the context as you said

This video completely confuses the medium and the learning style. See my comment below.

Yeah this is what I thought during the video. I reflected on my own experience and realised I don't particularly learn better using any one method, but I know doing things and watching videos engages me more than just simply reading or listening.

Love that kind of honesty

His brain “How do you know I know?”

He said: "I don´t, I just assumed" which is a perfectly fine answer.

I loved that reply. I would have doubled down suggesting I know that I'm a visual learner. I'm not as honest as that guy.

Your man.

what the hell you are the least one i expected here

So true

What does this even mean?

@@galaxywolf3192 I see yours is unproductivity

no, that's KZfaq watching styles

BRUH

XD

chad

..constant and autodidactic (with the help of KZfaq and Google)

@Naughty Spicy Editz i agree

Seems like the duck is trying to overtake Google lol

It's a good thing that Google sponsored this video, because otherwise I never would've known that Google existed.

Actually why would google sponsor a video when nobody doesn’t use google

Just remember scientists are just as easy to buy as politicians.

@@taylorleeforcongress8470 well said! 💯

Yes. Especially today with KZfaq, Khan Academy, and many other online ways to learn which was barely possible 10 years ago and not really possible 20 years ago. But also motivation eventually burns out, at least for some parts of what you want to learn and you will need to create artificial deadlines to accomplish anything - aka SMART goals. Khan academy structures learning in such a way that you can stick to the plan for a long time, without the need for additional motivation or structure. But google search, youtube and other raw sources - you have to create your own structure and deadlines. Like right now I'm supposed to work on my 3D modelling project with no deadline and I'm instead stretching my breakfast time with KZfaq lol

@@artemaung5274 The motivation burnout is relatable. But when you run out of motivation, don't panic. It's like struggling to get out of quick sand. You have a lifetime left before you give up on everything.

Yes. Especially with books.

Abosrb ugh*

This is the main principle behind unschooling.

Since you are a teacher in training: is that the common view these days? (that learning styles is a myth). The concept seems to be so common that I presume the change in perspective is somehow new. Could you comment on that? Cheers.

@@Petrvsco Yes: it's been the common view for at least 20 years. It simply takes popular science and the public that long to catch up and realise.

Same (15 years ago), but then two years ago I was working on my masters and the professor assigned work on matching learning styles (I wrote a paper debunking it with plenty of sources and discussing the use of multiple modes and matching mode to content. I failed the assignment.)

I recently finished my education degree )~3 years ago) and would say that this is a fairly common view. However I also believe that the different “learning styles” help me categorize my teaching and help me think about teaching in different ways.

i was expecting a punchline lmao

They had a phrase in ancient Rome for that: Qui scribit, bis discit. He who writes learns twice.

it's to distract attention from how ad polluted the search results became

DuckDuckGo is superior anyways.

@@TheNethIafin And the doctored search results and censorship

It's a good thing that Google Search sponsored this video, because otherwise I never would've known that Google existed or that it was associated with some sort of search engine.

@@marknefedov I liked Brave until I read about their homophobic anti-vaccine CEO. Granted the CEO represents the company, but not every employee within that company. Brave is a good browser though.