Horizon Report PG 10-11

1. What does the author say about learning styles and the evidence for their use in determining learning strategies? (Do not insert any opinion unless you back it up with multiple refereed journal articles as sources.)

The author is very blunt in stating his dissatisfaction with learning styles and their ineffectiveness. He states that they are ineffective and potentially harmful. He provides the reader with ten different statements from ten different people disproving the use of learning styles in education. The learning styles pigeon holes teaching and it doesn't leave much room for student choice. The focus should be on deeper learning approaches. We need to recognize learners strengths and weaknesses but it can be detrimental to classify a learner based solely on what we see as their strengths and weaknesses. 


2. Choose one of the seven ways to give students choice and describe how you will implement this in your classroom using technology.

Unstructured innovation time: The learning environment at my school mirrors all seven of these ways to give student choice. My learners favorite is what I chose to share in this post. At least once a week we provide our learners with "Patriot Time". The learners can choose whatever they would like to do for 30 minutes to an hour depending on how many times we are able to have it during the week. The learners love to use paints, paper folding and such for art, some enjoy reading books during this time, computers to design and create as well as using various materials in the room to craft and create their own ideas.