I learn best as a Kinesthetic Learner. Being able to manipulate and use all of my senses to learn a new subject is most effective for me. This ensures that I can take in all aspects of that subject in order to store it in as many parts of my brain (visual memory, auditory memory ex.) as possible.
The article was very interesting and I got a lot from it. A common misconception that was discussed was using a students strong modality in teaching any subject. I thought this to be true as well but in reading we began to understand that people learn best by presenting the subject in a way that is best for the subject not the student. Students will learn more if they a taught in a way that is best for a subject then best to them because its more natural which makes it easier for the brain to comprehend and store.
I also learned that the brain can store information as audio or visual but the most common and most effective way to store information is through meaning. This was really interesting to me because I thought that since we have six senses, that's how the brain would store the incoming information. But it turns out that the brain only uses this to gather the information. The brain would rather store correlations of the incoming information and convert these correlations to meanings for long term memory. Knowing this, I will attempt to always highlight the meaning of everything that is taught in order to make it easier for the student to remember everything that is taught.
I am a kinesthetic learner as well. But that is not to say that learning cannot take place using other senses. Good insight on the senses. They are simply the means to obtain the information not process the meaning.
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