How do you guys learn best?

[RAZRr1275]

Which type of learner are you?

[Cusefan]

Re: How do you guys learn best?

Microsoft Powerpoint

Spoiler

Just kidding

[auburntigersfan]

Re: How do you guys learn best?

Do you prefer to start on the basics and build to the large concept or start with a large concept and break it down until you get to the basics?

For ex doing a math backwards like starting with calc and breaking that down to algebra or the reverse.

Personally I prefer to start with a large theme and work backwards

Good luck starting with calculus and then learning algebra.

I have to do stuff in order starting from basics, then getting to more advanced stuff. Normally once I get the basics the more complicated stuff is pretty easy for me. I'll use calculus for an example, it took me a little bit of time to learn derivatives, but once I got those down integrating even more complicated problems was pretty easy for me.

[MC Fatigue]

Re: How do you guys learn best?

Basics to advanced. How can you possibly expect to understand the advanced methods of something if you don't even know the basics.

[GAMEC0CK2002]

Re: How do you guys learn best?

I find it good to know what the big picture is, but I have to start with the basics and everything builds on top of it.

[UATide]

Re: How do you guys learn best?

Yeah, basics to advanced, definitely. Lol

[JohnnytheSkin]

Re: How do you guys learn best?

Yeah...you have to do the whole "basics to advanced" thing. I mean hell, all Calculus is a step towards breaking down a complex problem into Algebra in the first place. Without the latter, there is no way in HELL you could solve the former.

I thought the topic was about whether you learn visually, audibly, reading/writing, or kinesthetically. If that's the case, then I'm visual all the way. I can't stand people describing things and rote repetition or practice (i.e. homework) just makes me miserable.

[GAMEC0CK2002]

Re: How do you guys learn best?

Yeah...you have to do the whole "basics to advanced" thing. I mean hell, all Calculus is a step towards breaking down a complex problem into Algebra in the first place. Without the latter, there is no way in HELL you could solve the former.

I thought the topic was about whether you learn visually, audibly, reading/writing, or kinesthetically. If that's the case, then I'm visual all the way. I can't stand people describing things and rote repetition or practice (i.e. homework) just makes me miserable.

Coming in contact with new information...I'd rather hear it (audio learner) But to study, I need to write it in my own terms (on note cards) and keep reading over my note cards.

[bgeno]

Re: How do you guys learn best?

I don't think in my 17 years of schooling that I ever pinpointed whether I learned visibly/audibly/whatever other way. Is there any trick to figuring this out?

[GAMEC0CK2002]

Re: How do you guys learn best?

I don't think in my 17 years of schooling that I ever pinpointed whether I learned visibly/audibly/whatever other way. Is there any trick to figuring this out?

Take a multiple intelligences survey. They are free online.

[RAZRr1275]

Re: How do you guys learn best?

Well I intended the thread as I typed in the op but since it seems we've come to a consensus on that lets switch it to type of learner that you are - I prefer learning things either audibly or through reading

[VDusen04]

Re: How do you guys learn best?

Microsoft Powerpoint

Spoiler

Just kidding

Haha, I remember entering college and at one point thinking, "Ah, well the good news is maybe this means I won't have to sit through stupid people doing stupid power point presentations like high school. It's going to be a lot more sophisticated than that."

Wrong.

Somehow, someway, 98.7% of classmates' presentations I had to sit through in college were a form of Power Point where their entire report was listed page by page and the student would either stare at the screen and read everything verbatim or they'd state aloud some random fact like "43% of students surveyed didn't know what kind of learning they liked best" as they simultaneously clicked to a power point frame with a picture of a sunset and the words, "43% of students don't know what kind of learning they like best" swooshing in from the left side of the screen.

[matt8204]

Re: How do you guys learn best?

I just end up memorizing a lot of things. It's not the best method and it doesn't prove that you actually have learned anything, but I was blessed with a very good memory. Why not take advantage of it? Quite often, if I do something or read about it once, it just sticks.

[av7]

Re: How do you guys learn best?

Visual learner. I just dont pay attention when someone talks.