On: The Myth of 'Learning Styles'

[roywiggins]

The myth is that everyone has a learning style, that style can be summed up as one of a few categories, the style never changes, and will be stable year to year, and once you have identified what the style is with a questionnaire, you can tailor teaching to it to target particular students.

Once you weaken all those things, the predictive value of the theory is pretty well nil.

[kolpa → roywiggins]

I've heard many more debunkings of learning styles than I've heard advocacies of learning styles. It's just fun to be contrarian.