Comments on: Visual learning, active learning, and learning of the future (and something about video games) http://www.nirak.net/2007/01/11/visual-learning-active-learning-and-learning-of-the-future-and-something-about-video-games/ Karin Dalziel Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:00:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Susan Knisely http://www.nirak.net/2007/01/11/visual-learning-active-learning-and-learning-of-the-future-and-something-about-video-games/#comment-18 Susan Knisely Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:25:47 +0000 http://nirak.net/testsite/?p=36#comment-18 I just read a book titles "Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner" in an effort to understand my son. One of the things the author talks about is the fact that most school work caters to auditory-sequential learners who are good at rote memorization. V-S learners may have a more difficult time with this, and therefore struggle in school. One of the ways they helped V-S children succeed was by teaching them strategies like creating a mental picture to associate with each thing they were supposed to memorize! Which sounds like what you were doing! The author has a whole section of her website devoted to Visual-Spatial learning, and she includes characteristics of V-S learners: http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/Visual_Spatial_Learner/vsl.htm I don't know why, but as I get older I find this stuff more and more interesting... I just read a book titles “Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner” in an effort to understand my son. One of the things the author talks about is the fact that most school work caters to auditory-sequential learners who are good at rote memorization. V-S learners may have a more difficult time with this, and therefore struggle in school. One of the ways they helped V-S children succeed was by teaching them strategies like creating a mental picture to associate with each thing they were supposed to memorize! Which sounds like what you were doing!

The author has a whole section of her website devoted to Visual-Spatial learning, and she includes characteristics of V-S learners:

http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/Visual_Spatial_Learner/vsl.htm

I don’t know why, but as I get older I find this stuff more and more interesting…

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