{"id":1574,"date":"2009-03-09T10:21:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T14:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2009-03-09T10:21:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T14:21:51","slug":"quips-on-learning-styles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1574","title":{"rendered":"Quips on &#8220;learning styles&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the <a href=\"http:\/\/dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/do-learning-styles-exist.html\">Dallas ISD blog entry on &#8220;learning styles&#8221;<\/a> Friday, a few thoughts came to mind over the weekend (so this is a belated Out of Left Field Friday note):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am so happy that people who claim to be kinesthetic learners don&#8217;t actually try that out in all situations. &#8220;Officer, you shouldn&#8217;t ticket me. I&#8217;m a kinesthetic learner, and I can assure you I understand Newton&#8217;s laws a lot better now than before the accident!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Someone at ETS must have been under the influence of learning-style beliefs when creating the &#8220;arranging baby marshmallows and spaghetti on blue paper to discover different ways to multiply binomials&#8221; lesson <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/content\/2009\/mar\/06\/new-curriculum-becomes-springboard-teacher-critici\/\">for the Springboard program used in my county<\/a>. Isn&#8217;t the gluing-macaroni-on-paper activity reserved for Mother&#8217;s Day cards in first grade? (Hint, oh clueless curriculum developers: manipulatives should get students to the central ideas <b>quickly<\/b>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This morning, I&#8217;m sure there are hundreds of thousands of students who are claiming to be Standard Time learners unable to learn via Daylight Savings styles&#8230; but maybe it&#8217;s just the lost hour of sleep that&#8217;s to blame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Dallas ISD blog entry on &#8220;learning styles&#8221; Friday, a few thoughts came to mind over the weekend (so this is a belated Out of Left Field Friday note): I am so happy that people who claim to be kinesthetic learners don&#8217;t actually try that out in all situations. &#8220;Officer, you shouldn&#8217;t ticket me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-of-left-field-friday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-po","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}