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So…

Let’s talk VARK model.

I’m sure most of you now will have heard of this model, maybe not by name but, definitely by practice. Put simply the VARK model is: a breakdown of the learning process; it’s how you learn.

VARK

According to this model there are 4 basic styles to learning:

Visual – graphical summaries of given data; charts, graphs, etc.

Auditory – listening to aural (verbal) information.

Reading / Writing – reading documentation and taking notes.

Kinaesthetic – performing the physical action; playing the sport or conducting the experiment yourself.

You’re learning wrong

Now, this is where the trick comes in…

Effective learning comes down to efficiency; you need to learn the broad content quickly and logically to retain it – effectively. The VARK model directs you to your best learning method.

Studies show that preferences and actuality don’t always match.

A recent study (Jurenka, et al., 2018.) shows that subjectively, students chose auditory learning as their preferred method however, test results showed students had greater results with kinaesthetic learning.

The current generation does seem to follow the general trend of preferring kinaesthetic style learning, as opposed to the older generation preferring reading/writing styles. This is down to the change from traditional eduction to newer modern standards.

How to learn

Schools use a combination of different methods that invoke each learning style. This is to help students to learn, despite their individual styles, but also to aid them in recognising how they learn: Most people don’t fully understand what method is best for them.

Learn Smarter

If you wish to learn efficiently and easily, take a simple VARK test – you will thank you.

Below are a few links if you wish to do a little more digging for yourself.

So, what type of learner are you?

Are you different from what you thought?

Feel free to leave a comment, anything more, Leave a Q.

Further reading:

– VARK Break Down

https://educationonline.ku.edu/community/4-different-learning-styles-to-know

– Example Research paper.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329648919_The_Learning_Styles_of_the_Generation_Group_Z_and_Their_Influence_on_Learning_Results_in_the_Learning_Process

Hello big, wide, cosy world and welcome to the last blog you’ll ever read. This blog is all about my, eventual, travels and potential development of an English language company.

With any luck, you will be able to follow my travels around the world and look on as I make a fool of my self, learning the ways of the world. If you keep an open mind, you too will be able to make all the same mistakes I will, but surely that’s half the fun. How do you learn without first making mistakes.

Thomas Edison supposedly said –

“I have not failed 700times to make a light bulb, I have found 700 ways how not to make a light bulb.”
Thomas Edison

Poetic but he has a point.”

Other’s follow the philosophy of Bismarck –

“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
Otto von Bismarck

Well…

Make the same mistake twice. That’s half the fun.”
Russell

Reading is great, but why read it from a book or watch it on the tele when you can be in it, see the colours, smell the flowers, hear the music. History should remind you of the mistakes and successes we made along the way. How can we be wise without learning the wrong answers first.

No answer is wrong, just just used incorrectly. There is a difference between knowing the answer, and knowing how to use it.
Wow, I thought this was clever, off the top of my head.

I come from a small rural town where I have to drive everywhere of interest. But, I can walk 5 minutes and be in the middle of nowhere. A rather surreal idea that I never truly appreciated until I went to university and lived in a big city. I genuinely began to miss the green trees that I would wake up to every morning. It’s funny to me now thinking that I would whinge about going for walks in the woods as a child, it’s called being lazy.

My house mates had seen trees before, obviously, but never really experienced a truly rural lifestyle. The idea that shops aren’t just down the road, or a deer in your garden and a boar walking down the main road being is an everyday occurrence. I want to see what life is like in the rural areas of other countries. Cities are great, but the real life and culture is found in the small homes and towns where the locals live as they always have, only mildly affected by the progressing country at large.

I want to see all the wonderful places and meet all the fascinating people, starting with Asia and work my way west.

This all being the case with the removal of the international travel ban, once all is fixed of course.

I love to imagine what life would be like had I grown up in a different country. Is there a young man in rural Japan thinking ‘what is it like to live in rural England?’. These are the questions I want to answer.

I also have some rather lofty goals of trying to remove the barrier of culture and language around the world. As an ESL teacher I plan to start my own ESL school, curriculum(I didn’t use autocorrect for that I swear..) and application to make learning languages easier, starting with the only language I actually know, English. Making the world a smaller place means accepting everyone, despite there flaws, and improving ourselves. Moving the world forward so that we can all see hover cars before it ends. I believe combining each nation’s cultures can only improve each others, and make our lives far more interesting.

Every now and again I will be posting about interesting topics, things I think people should know more about or even answer questions that you ask. Please feel free.

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