Double Entry Journal #2

Quote: "Technology can help visual students by allowing pictures and other visual aids to be used in the classroom. The teachers can use a lot of colors in their presentations by using computers more than they can by using the white board or the black board because computers have many color options that instructors can utilize. Programs like Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word are good examples of applications that have many color options. Moreover, if teachers give this kind of student papers, it is much better for them to include some pictures in their papers and for them to use different colors in the text" (Wiki books, May 2011).

Response: In today's classrooms, visual learners now have a upper hand on learning. With so much technology available and use in the classroom that teachers on the elementary level tend to use them more. In the elementary schools teachers are more focused on learning styles; where as we leave that single classroom setting we are forced in to a lecture setting and can gives the visual learns a disadvantage.

In the college classroom visual learners are cut short. So many teachers still do not use PowerPoint, or other visual aids in the classroom. Lecture is still the number one form of teaching in college classrooms. This makes it harder for visual learners to visualize the topic and get bored easy. I for one am a combination of the three types, but learn more from writing down then anything else. For me visual aids are almost too stimulating and I prefer to read and write notes and enjoy lecture. 

Resources: 

Web 2.0 and Emerging Learning Technologies/Learning Styles (2011, May 19). In Wikibooks. Retrieved January 29, 2012

Related Resources: I chose this video because it clearly shows how an active learner learns. The video makes it fun and easy to understand what an active learner is and how they process information. (though I would not try this at home)

Active Learners