Sunday, October 24, 2010

Learning Style

At the beginning of this course, I had stated that the best way for me to learn is by being challenged and doing research to find answers. In my everyday life I find myself jumping from task to task in order to keep things afloat, such is the nature of I.T. work, and I realize that I best learn from spending an extended period of time on a specific task and focusing much more on the concept and overall procedural aspects of it, than looking at detailed information. I think I am a big picture kind of person, perhaps an instructor's best approach towards me would be a global one, with intuitive oriented lessons.
While I'm still a visual learner, the test we took provided some great revealing insight for me. It was interesting to go through the process of answering the questions, and finding myself engaged and interested in what my responses were. More importantly, I think I was quite surprised by the results and numbers that came in my results, a well spent $9.69 I might add.
The tests revealed to me that I am much more susceptible to learn fro listening, that reading. As a musician, I have always been able to grasp musical concepts by listening more than by reading. This is something I knew applied in my musical background, but I didn't realize how much it crossed over into my everyday life.
Something else that surprised me, is how close, and at times distant, my responses were to other I.T. statistics. Although I have been in this field for a little over five years, I have always had a bit of a disconnect with some of the conventional views of I.T. teachings. Primarily because of my personality and openness to concepts. Though, it was interesting to see how close my responses were, especially with auditory learning, and how distant they were to others like tactile. 

1 comment:

  1. Your comment about auditory learning at the end caught my eye. As an IT person, we are often required to listen very closely to the clients complaint or problem in order to effectively provide a solution. Perhaps this is the 'cause' of your auditory 'spike.'

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