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  • Dispelling Neuromyths

    Dispelling Neuromyths

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    Neuromyths – misconceptions about about learning and/or how the brain works – plague higher education. How often have you heard someone refer to themself as “left-brained”, or “a visual learner”, or “using only 10% of their brain”? It may seem harmless, but neuromyths persist because people not only believe them, they pass them on to…

  • About Learning Styles

    About Learning Styles

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      What Are Learning Styles? The term learning styles is widely used to describe how learners gather, sift through, interpret, organize, come to conclusions about, and “store” information for further use.  As spelled out in VARK (one of the most popular learning styles inventories), these styles are often categorized by sensory approaches:  visual, aural, verbal…