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Researching on the Run RACSS Fall Seminar Tampa, Florida October 8, 2008
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Researching on the Run
RACSS Fall Seminar Tampa, FloridaOctober 8, 2008
The Learning Challenge Abstract
Concrete
Simple Complex
Motor Vehicle Licenses
Energy Deregulation
Main Source…
How to Learn Anything Quickly, Ricki Linksman, M. Ed. (1996)
Session’s Goal
Knowing your learning style can help you quickly absorb new, unfamiliar information under stressful conditions Knowing others’ learning style can help you communicate information to them more effectively
Understanding What
You Found
Conveying Your
Understanding
FindingInformation
Learning Cycle
Understanding What
You Found
Conveying Your
Understanding
FindingInformation
Understanding What You Found
What’s a learning style?Usual way you receive and process information
Intake Channels:Eyes (visual)Ears (audio)Hands and fingers (tactile)Motor muscles (kinesthetic)
Processing CentersRight brainLeft brain
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Intake Channels
Actions and movements
Feelings evoked by events
What’s heard
What’s seen
Is more likely to remember...
Use action words and phrases
Say what’s felt
Say what’s heard
Say what’s seen
When speaking, tends to…
Moving around
Things are touched
Things are heard
Things are shown
Receives information well when…
Kinesthetic Tactile AudioVisualContext
Source: Linksman, How to Learn Anything Quick
Which intake style is best for…
Chairing meetings
Finding laws and cases
Interviewing via phone
Briefing members
Summarizing testimony
Preparing graphsWriting reports
Kinesthetic Tactile AudioVisual Task
Right-Brain and Left-Brain Processing Centers
Right—Left
Eight Learning Styles
VisualVisual, Right Brain Visual, Left Brain
AudioAudio, Right BrainAudio, Left Brain
TactileTactile, Right BrainTactile, Left Brain
Kinesthetic Kinesthetic, Right BrainKinesthetic, Left Brain
How Visual Learners Process Pictures
Right-Brain Person
Left-Brain Person
RBI double,two for four,.300 hitter
How visual learners process words
Right-Brain Person
Left-Brain Person
RBI double,two for four,.300 hitter
How brain halves store information presented sequentially
Right-Brain Person
Left-Brain Person
First the pitcher wound up from the stretch position, then he…
…the batter swung hard, lined the ball to right, and…
Cool…
Did the batter knock in the run or not?
How brain halves store information presented all at once
Right-Brain Person
Left-Brain Person
The batter drove in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth…
All right!
Hold it! How did the runner…
Is the legislature a left- or right-brain world?
Using or interpreting statistics Interviewing agency officials Solving Problems Explaining billsReading testimonyAttending hearings and meetings Report Writing Researching
Right Left Task
I’m not doing all the work…
Prepare a presentation on what you learned at this conference using a learning style that’s different than your team’s
Visual learners—do an audio presentationAudio learners—do a tactile presentationTactile learners—do a kinesthetic presentationKinesthetic learners—do a visual presentation
You have 10 minutes to prepare and five minutes to present
Converting Signals to Your Leaning Style
Sounds Converter Box Pictures
Conversion Strategies for Visual Learners
Draw sketches or images
Convert to narrative
Kinesthetic Presentation
Convert to graphics
Read the written testimony
Oral Testimony
Ideal mediumConvert to text Graphs
Convert to graphics
Ideal mediumReading Right-Brain Left-BrainMedium
Conversion Strategies for Audio Learners
Convert to sound, sight, sensations
Ask questions
Kinesthetic Presentation
Convert to rhythms and tones
Ideal Oral Testimony
Convert to metaphors
Discuss with others
Graphs
Covert to sounds (MP3, Pod cast)
Read aloudReading
Right-Brain Left-BrainMedium
Conversion Strategies for Tactile Learners
Make sketches or diagrams
Take notes Kinesthetic Presentation
Draw or sketch related images
Take notes Oral Testimony
Copy or draw graphs
Describe in writing
Graphs
Draw or sketch related images
Copy in your own hand
Reading
Right-Brain Left-BrainMedium
Conversion Strategies for Kinesthetic Learners
Act out or visualize action
Act out or visualize action
Non Kinesthetic Presentation
Same as above Visualize action Oral Testimony
Visualize dynamic Visualize dynamic Graphs
Act out or visualize words
Act out or visualize words
Reading Right-Brain Left-BrainMedium
Ok, you’re not done yet…
View the video and convert what you see into your learning style
Online Learning Style Inventories
Memletics Learning Styles Inventory www.memletics.com“What’s Your Learning Style” www.agelesslearner.com/assess/learning style.html
John RappaOffice of Legislative ResearchConnecticut General [email protected]
