Different Techniques that affect learning

Students want more interactive classes and prefer activities that involve interaction with teachers and peers. More than 80 percent rated classroom discussion and debate at least "a little" and sometimes "very" exciting and engaging, and more than 70 percent felt this way about group projects. Just 52 percent said teacher lectures are engaging at all.http://childparenting.about.com/od/schoollearning/a/4-reasons-kids-are-bored-at-school.htm


These facts aid my discovery that everyone learns using different methods.


According to "Fleming's VAK/VARK model" there are three types of learner

1. visual learners;
2. auditory learners;
3. kinesthetic learners or tactile learners.^[1]

Fleming claimed that visual learners prefer learning through seeing. They think in pictures and will learn better through visual aids such as overhead slides, diagrams, and handouts. Auditory learners learn best through listening, the `old-school' teaching. Tactile/kinesthetic learners prefer to learn through experience, moving, touching, and doing. If Students are aware of this they can use the model to identify their preferred learning style and maximize their educational experience by focusing on what benefits them the most. 

However, what if you don't know what type of learner you are, or are unaware of this, for example young children, you could be placed into the wrong bracket which could have adverse affects on your learning.  This would of course affect your learning methods, referring back to my blog about reflective theory https://docs.google.com/document/d/17mxcdbYcK96taRlvx6RuQon0xc0LZ0-L-tosftyNrBI/edit?pli=1

Do you need to know what type of learner you are to work out what method works best? Or do you find what method works best and that will tell you which learner you are? even the answer to this question may be determined by the type of learner you are.