Other learning styles that appeal to me are visual learning styles. I find it easier to associate the knowledge I need to know with images, rather than text. I enjoy working with design and anything visual and prefer work that involves a lot of colour. On the other hand I do not find the logical learning style appealing. I find numbers and complex calculations to be my weak point and have a hard time remembering the basics of such processes as trigonometry and algebra.
Back to kinaesthetic learning, I looked at the following website for learning tips: http://www.dirjournal.com/guides/study-tips-for-kinesthetic-learners/ . I find the chewing tip to helpful because it extends my focus and concentration. I also often already use the writing tip, I find writing out my notes, sometimes more than once to be helpful and easier to memorise.
I do not find Auditory- Linguistic learning to be useful, I find it quite easy to lose concentration, or misunderstand what is being said, this is where visual earning is really useful for me, because it is being shown to me or I am working through it, I am actively taking part in the learning process which keeps me interested. I also finding keeping short notes, often just one word. I use this to visualise what the word looks like as an image, rather than memorising the actual word.
I find myself to be a very solitary learner but can break into the social learner bracket when I find something too difficult to handle by myself, or when I approach a program for the first time, I find it easier to have a few basics shown to me, then I like to explore the rest of the program myself and experiment.
When looking at the VAK learning styles demonstrated at: http://www.nwlink.com/~Donclark/hrd/styles/vakt.html , the visual – spatial learning style is what I find to be more my style, rather than the visual – linguistic ( as mentioned above), since that is based around learning text at first glance, which I can struggle with. The learning process is a lot easier for me if I break down paragraphs and sentences into mind maps, graphs and images.
I feel my perfect learning style is mixture between both visual and kinaesthetic learning, I find video tutorials to be more helpful and tend to grasp what is being taught a lot faster than a text based tutorial which I would need to break down into smaller parts and often rewrite it myself just to maximise my understanding, this lengthens the learning process and isn't very productive.
Some useful techniques I can use to improve my learning are: Making small one/two word notes on post-it notes, or even use images to represent the notes, and stick them at points in my room which I regularly look at, such as computer screen, the light switch or around the television. I could apply this to programs such as UnrealEd for learning the interface, I could draw the icons, and what they mean underneath, and stick these around the computer screen so I am always looking at them.
