What is your Learning Style?

[AFTT47]

I voted visual because I'm big on diagrams and graphs. Video isn't necessarily a visual style of learning. A person on a screen narrating facts doesn't do anything for me; I'd rather read it.

[Shining_Finger]

So from this what I am getting is that the types of people that visit forums are Visual Learners and people should provide transcripts for videos.
Cool, although I wish I had more data to work with.

[dyresand]

visual hands on and verbal

[RoadRunner79]

From the links, I am intrapersonal in that I do think about these things quite a bit in regards to myself, although I do notice the differences in others. 

Primarily I would say that I am a logical learner.  I have a crap memory and learn by understanding.  With this, I would also say that I am visual, in that I need to be able to picture how it works (although not necessarily recalling pictures such as flash cards).  I don't think that it matters if I read or hear what is being taught, as long as I can picture how it works.  I am also more of a solitary learner.  When given a new piece of equipment or software, I would rather have a basic understanding of it, and learn on my own through experimentation, than sit in a classroom.   Then as questions arise, I can look them up or ask.  I wouldn't say that this is tactile, as much as I can understand what does and doesn't work quicker on my own, than sitting in a class.

I also find that teaching is a great way to learn.  It requires you to understand and present the material in different ways, according to the person you are teaching.  It requires a greater understanding in order to teach well and to various people.

I have also found, that given a task, that you are better off telling me, what you would like to accomplish, then what to do.  If I do not understand what and why I am doing something, then it will take me longer to do it.  I welcome input on how to accomplish the task, but I am also going to look for a better way to do it, or look for issues with the method.  I don't stop doing this, when just told on authority what to do, so it takes longer.

[Cato]

Kirkpatrick's Levels, Bloom's Taxonomy, Mager's Six Pack...all horseshit, but each containing an element of usefulness. 

Self proclaimed educational experts have established a lucrative industry that has absolutely no practical benefit. The perfect example is the second question of the survey you keep asking people to take. i stopped when 'consult a fucking dictionary' wasn't an answer for question 2 asking what one would do if he/she wasn't sure how to spell a word. Finger trace the word in air? Fuck me.

To master any knowledge requirement, everyone uses a combination of all the artificially segmented 'learning styles'. This fact didn't dissuade the purveyors of educational bullshit; they simply started talking about 'dominant' learning styles. The tough thing with this gambit is no objective data exists to support the existence of 'dominant' learning styles relative to knowledge achievement; it's all self reported and amounts to nothing but a personal preference. The fact that anyone attempts to quantify this qualitative criteria is bizarre. 

One of your links attempted to link learning style with brain geography, as if the totality of the mind (knowledge center) can be compartmentalize in this manner.

[RoadRunner79]

Yeah... I agree the quiz was fairly useless.

[robvalue]

Not sure. Monkey see monkey do? A bit of each.

I like learning through examples. I find endless droning hard to cut through if it isn't presented in some real form now and again.

[drfuzzy]

I do like Cato's comments above.  I took some graduate-level education classes, and we had a segment studying learning styles. (There was a fancy name for it that I am forgetting . . . )

I tested very high on tactile/kinesthetic, with visual coming in second.

There really hasn't been effective research on this.  What is known is that people have clear preferences: some would rather listen to descriptions, some prefer videos, some learn best from books, some like hands-on.   However, what the proponents of "learning styles" neglect is how much these preferences differ by subject matter.  Not only that, but environment, experience, and personal history all can factor in to what is perceived as "a learning style".  A person who is primarily a visual learner might prefer to learn song lyrics by listening to the song.  A person who usually prefers to read written instructions might prefer a video when it comes to installing a new graphics card into a computer.   Learning isn't a static pattern.