If you’ve ever sat through a teaching seminar, you’ve probably heard a lecture about “learning styles.” Perhaps you were told that some students are visual learners, some are auditory learners, and ...

In You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner, the education scholar debunks the idea that everyone has an optimal “learning style.” What led you to this subject? I once had a student who wrote lesson plans ...

The mother went to visit her daughter's 1st grade classroom. As she entered the class, she saw her daughter tracing the number eight in shaving cream. Her teacher explained to the mother that she felt ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The notion of "learning styles"-- that ...

In her recent article “The Bunk of Debunking Learning Styles,” Heather Wolpert-Gawron makes a plea for common sense in the face of research findings that contradict her direct observations of learning ...

It is part of the received wisdom of popular psychology: People have different learning styles. You reach “auditory learners” by explaining it to them verbally, “visual learners” by showing them ...

You’ve probably heard of “learning styles,” and you may have a vague idea of which one you most align with. But even though learning through various methods is a good thing, there’s also a lot of hype ...