Reading books, taking notes, and writing down new information help you learn faster. But that doesn’t mean you have a specific style of learning. It’s just that you prefer reading/writing when dealing with new concepts. Unlike what many believe, there are new actual learning styles. And what people have is merely a preference that has an insignificant effect on their learning. It’s not writing or reading that makes you learn; it’s your active thinking and conceptualization.
A 3-hour workshop with a world-famous professor
An hour-long lecture by a best-seller author
A class about watching and reviewing classic movies
A field trip with an educational purpose
Books
Podcasts/Audiobooks
Educational videos
Experiment kits
I wanted to self-study. But I couldn’t.
I didn’t want to self-study. But I had to.
I didn’t like reading or writing.
The school made me inactive. I didn’t like that.
I take notes
I read it out loud
I connect it to my memories
I always have a hard time doing that
A pen and paper
A well-spoken teacher
Pictures, flashcards, or movies
Experiments, excitement, and action
It’s an efficient way of learning
It’s not as challenging as some say
It’s an inefficient way of learning
I can never attend an online class
The actors or the cast
The dialogues or soundtracks
The important scenes or landscapes
The actions and the events
I take notes and create slides
I ask them to give a lecture on the topic
I prepare pictures and video clips
I take them on a field trip and teach them along the way
Yes, I paraphrase the topic in my own words
Yes, I take voice memos
Yes, I doodle or use charts and flashcards
No, I don’t take notes
Writing an essay
Giving a lecture
Drawing something or creating a chart
Doing a DIY project
Reading papers
Listening to podcasts or audiobooks
Watching videos online
Talking to experts in-person
I can concentrate for long hours
I can concentrate for one or two hours
I can concentrate for a few minutes
I find it hard to concentrate at all
Taking notes
Giving a lecture on the same topic
Recoding the lecture and rewatching it
Engaging in the lecture
Minimalist slides with keywords
Audible slides with supporting pictures
No words. Only images and videos.
I don’t like any of these.
You can self-study in my class.
You can listen to music in my class.
You can use Google and YouTube in my class.
You can walk around freely in my class.
