Learning Styles

I liked the article by Richard Felder and Barbara Soloman on "Learning Styles and Strategies" in this week's reading. It was sort of like a personality test for learning. I am a ASVS learner based on their brief descriptions - Active Sensing Verbal Sequential. Particularly when it comes to technology, I am definitely an active learner who prefers to just jump in and start trying things. That is also generally my approach to projects. I hate it when coworkers simply refuse to try something or won't even start a project because they assume it is impossible. I am a firm believer in pilot projects and test phases. I also strongly identify with the description of a sensing learner as someone who doesn't like "courses that have no apparent connection to the real world." No wonder me and philosophy didn't get along. I think I am a good strong middle ground when it comes to visual versus verbal learner, although with technology I may lean more towards visual. I definitely find the online tutorials and video demonstrations more helpful than the reading which frequently makes no sense to me. For some reason, even just hearing it versus reading it seems to make a difference. I also think I fall somewhere in the middle on the sequential and global learner scale. I do like linear, straightforward assignments and I can follow along even when I don't see the big picture yet. But once I grasp how something works, I do like to think outside the box and can often find ways to make software for instance work in novel ways.