A Unified Model of Learning Styles

Damian Gordon

Gordon Bull

Introduction

• Recap on Learning Styles

• Learning Styles and the 6-Hats

• Teaching by Analogy

• Gordon-Bull Model

• Curry Model

• Non-4 Quadrant Models

JudgementPerception

FeelingThinking

Perception

Sensing

Intuiting

Learning Styles

Carry out different teaching for different students- Ancient Chinese Proverb

"Here you are in Slytherin,Where you'll make your real friends,

Those cunning folk use any means To achieve their ends."

"You might belong in Gryffindor,Where dwell the brave at heart,

There daring, nerve, and chivalrySet Gryffindors apart”

"Here in wise old Ravenclaw, If you've a ready mind,

Those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind."

"You belong in Hufflepuff,Where they are just and loyal,

Those patient Hufflepuffs are true And unafraid to toil"

Gordon-Bull Model

Evolutionary Learning Style Models

Inclusive Learning though Technology (ILT)

St Gabriel’s School in Limerick

The McMahan

FoundationEdward de Bono

School of Computing Digital Media Centre

Edward de Bono

Edward de Bono has written 56 books with translations in 34 languages. He has been invited to work in 52 countries.He was born in Malta and graduated from the University of Malta. He proceeded as a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford and has held appointments at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and Harvard.

Dr de Bono is the originator of the term 'lateral thinking' which now has an official entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. He is regarded as the leading international authority in conceptual and creative thinking, and also the direct teaching of thinking as a skill.

Six-Hats Technique

Six-Hats Technique

• Many major international organisations use this technique for problem solving

• Each ‘hat’ represents a perspective or way of thinking

• They are metaphorical hats that a thinker can put on or take off to indicate the type of thinking they are using

• In a group we can ask members to ‘put on’ different hats in a sequence to aide the problem solving process

• This can help overcome the problem of each group member adopting random positions at random times

• It also permits us to control people who insist of sticking to one perspective (ie. negative) - we can ask them to assume a different hat

Teaching

by

Analogy

Approaches (Lauillard??)

• SSADM=Build a house

• Recursion=Escher

• Info Sys=Fables

• OSI=James Bond

• Problem Solving=Sherlock

• Dining Philosophers

• Byzantine Generals

• Bully Election

• Exogesis

• Project Mgt=Shackleton

• Linked lists=pointing

• Variables=containers

• Neural Nets=Excel

• Arrays=shoes at bowling

• Sorting=deck of cards

• Stacks=plates

• Queues=bus queues

• Algorithms=cup of tea

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0 4 S T O P

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9 6 3 3

9 7 4 4

9 8 7 7

9 9 5

“ T h e G h o s t o f a M a c h i n e ”

C o u n t e r

S c r a t c h P a d 1

S c r a t c h P a d 2

A C T I O N P A D

N u m b e r e d C u b b y h o l e s

T H E R U L E S O F L I F E1 . C o p y c u b b y h o l e < C o u n t e r > t o t h e A c t i o n P a d .2 . P u s h t h e C o u n t e r b u t t o n .3 . D o t h e a c t i o n o n t h e A c t i o n P a d .4 . G o b a c k t o 1 .

7 7

4 4

S T O P

F i n a l S t a t e

Gordon-Bull Model

Twin Peaks

Teaching by Analogy

• Looks promising…

• How closely does it match concept ?

• where does it break down ?

• why bother ?

Literary Criticism

My PhD

Journal Publication

• Head of Faculty

• 2.5 Papers in good state

• 6.5 in medium stage

• 14 in elementary stages

Functional Specification

Technical Specification

SCORM

Learning Styles Models

Gordon-Bull Model

Evolutionary Learning Style Models

Models of Learning StylesCurry (1987)

PersonalityModels

Information ProcessingModels

Social InteractionModels

Instructional &Environmental Models

Models of Learning StylesGordon (2003)

PersonalityModels

Information ProcessingModels

Social InteractionModels

Instructional &Environmental Models

ICT Skillsor ‘knack’

Other Learning Styles Models

VARK

Dual Coding

Convergence of Models

DualCodingVAKMultiple

Intelligences

Riding

Soloman Felder

LumpersSplitters

VARK

x

“What is wrong with people nowadays? Why do they all seem to think they are qualified to do things far above their capabilities?"

- His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Great Master and First and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Member of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Australia, Member of the Queen's Service Order, Lord of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty

Conclusions• Learning styles is vital, but one of many factors,

motivation, demographics, etc.

• Does encourage multi-modal teaching

• Lots of Learning Styles and Computer Science research possible– Procedural/O.O.– White Box/Black Box Testing– Recursion

• Teaching by analogy bears investigation

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Questions

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