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You are not a visual learner — learning styles are a stubborn myth. Part of this video is sponsored by Google Search. Special thanks to Prof. Daniel Willingham for the interview and being part of this video. Special thanks to Dr Helen Georigou for reviewing the script and helping with the scientific literature. Special thanks to Jennifer Borgioli Binis for consulting on the script. MinutePhysics video on a better way to picture atoms — https://ve42.co/Atom ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ References: Pashler, H., McDaniel, M., Rohrer, D., & Bjork, R. (2008). Learning styles: Concepts and evidence. Psychological science in the public interest, 9(3), 105-119. — https://ve42.co/Pashler2008 Willingham, D. T., Hughes, E. M., & Dobolyi, D. G. (2015). The scientific status of learning styles theories. Teaching of Psychology, 42(3), 266-271. — https://ve42.co/Willingham Massa, L. J., & Mayer, R. E. (2006). Testing the ATI hypothesis: Should multimedia instruction accommodate verbalizer-visualizer cognitive style?. Learning and Individual Differences, 16(4), 321-335. — https://ve42.co/Massa2006 Riener, C., & Willingham, D. (2010). The myth of learning styles. Change: The magazine of higher learning, 42(5), 32-35.— https://ve42.co/Riener2010 Husmann, P. R., & O’Loughlin, V. D. (2019). Another nail in the coffin for learning styles? Disparities among undergraduate anatomy students’ study strategies, class performance, and reported VARK learning styles. Anatomical sciences education, 12(1), 6-19. — https://ve42.co/Husmann2019 Snider, V. E., & Roehl, R. (2007). Teachers’ beliefs about pedagogy and related issues. Psychology in the Schools, 44, 873–886. doi:10.1002/pits.20272 — https://ve42.co/Snider2007 Fleming, N., & Baume, D. (2006). Learning Styles Again: VARKing up the right tree!. Educational developments, 7(4), 4. — https://ve42.co/Fleming2006 Rogowsky, B. A., Calhoun, B. M., & Tallal, P. (2015). Matching learning style to instructional method: Effects on comprehension. Journal of educational psychology, 107(1), 64. — https://ve42.co/Rogowskyetal Coffield, Frank; Moseley, David; Hall, Elaine; Ecclestone, Kathryn (2004). — https://ve42.co/Coffield2004 Furey, W. (2020). THE STUBBORN MYTH OF LEARNING STYLES. Education Next, 20(3), 8-13. — https://ve42.co/Furey2020 Dunn, R., Beaudry, J. S., & Klavas, A. (2002). Survey of research on learning styles. California Journal of Science Education II (2). — https://ve42.co/Dunn2002 ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Special thanks to Patreon supporters: Mike Tung, Evgeny Skvortsov, Meekay, Ismail Öncü Usta, Paul Peijzel, Crated Comments, Anna, Mac Malkawi, Michael Schneider, Oleksii Leonov, Jim Osmun, Tyson McDowell, Ludovic Robillard, Jim buckmaster, fanime96, Juan Benet, Ruslan Khroma, Robert Blum, Richard Sundvall, Lee Redden, Vincent, Marinus Kuivenhoven, Alfred Wallace, Arjun Chakroborty, Joar Wandborg, Clayton Greenwell, Pindex, Michael Krugman, Cy ‘kkm’ K’Nelson, Sam Lutfi, Ron Neal ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Research and Writing by Derek Muller and Petr Lebedev Animation by Ivy Tello Filmed by Emily Zhang and Trenton Oliver Edited by Trenton Oliver Music by Epidemic Sound https://epidemicsound.com Additional video supplied by Getty Images ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀

15 Replies to “The Biggest Myth In Education”

  1. (A year late but here I go.) One thing I also understand from experience in learning stuff better is environment and how we think. If a individual is worried about the people around them, or whats happening at home; its almost 10 times harder to take in any sort of information. I am a MMO gamer, and there is something known as raiding. Depending on the game, you can have 8 to 30 people trying to defeat a boss together. However what makes it a challenge is that these bosses will do a sequence of mechanics to where the players have to know where to stand, where to click, catching the visual indications, and so forth ALL while doing their job as the role they chose. Its a very involved process, but the challenge is what makes killing these bosses so insanely fun to do, and feels amazing once defeating them.

    What I wanted to say about this is that there are some days where things will click because everyone on the team is feeling good. There is no complainers, people being negative and so forth. Ironically the mood is what helps the team progress the fight more so than other days where the raid leader (who calls out mechanics) is incredibly moody, negative, and feels like they are secretly judging you. So at the end of the day; if one is to teach, one needs to be in a good environment of people. Its hard to not care about how your teammates think, so its best to be on good terms with everyone.

  2. I’m definitely more of a visual learner. When my boyfriend tries to explain something to me, it’s so much harder for me to understand than if there was a picture or diagram showing me. In the test in this video, it shows the students getting only the picture or the text. Of course they wouldn’t learn better with only the picture, that doesn’t explain how an atom or bicycle pump works, it just helps a lot for me in conjunction with the text. I do agree that it’s more than just “I’m a visual learner” meaning only pictures would help, which is false. Pictures in addition to text helps immensely.

  3. As a classical guitar player, my teacher always said that I have a very good memory, being able to learn by heart a piece and even remember it after time has passed and I haven’t seen the sheet. What worked for me was a “pattern” method that I instinctively was using. Basically I was trying to make some sense out of every Meter.
    “Oh this follows a 1-3-2-4 pattern” , “the scale goes down” , “this next part is the same as the previous but in a chord one semitone down”.

  4. Bad research methodology, giving a written test to all members after they learned different ways…..Why are the studies giving the same test to everyone in the same format? I want a study that shows what an auditory learner learns by telling you with spoken words, and a visual leaner being able to show you with a drawing or picture, etc……

  5. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I don’t agree at all with this video. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    You are mixing learning, understanding and remembering. Someone needs to understand the topic first before they can remember it.
    People do indeed have that light bulb moment (ie understand a topic) when it is explained in their preferred learning method. But this is not remembering. Since your metric of “learning” is to do a test, then this implies the student first understood the topic, remembered the topic and was able to recall the topic in the test. You’re street test was irrelevant since it was simply an exercise in short term memory recall.

  6. “When we already believe the wprld to be a certain way then we interpret new experiences to fit with those beliefs, wheter they actually do or not. ”
    -> Rupert Sheldrake warned about this, calling it a scientific dogma. Wheter it be comfort, political or financial interest in motives, it tends to happen in a lot of science areas.
    Having known this, it’s no wonder the archeological community is against Graham Hancock’s ideas of a much older timeline of human history. And also why the replication of 100 well known experiments had only 36 with succesful results.

  7. Not all have 1 style. Depend on the subject. Like map. Is better for me to listen than looking at map. U can tell me above UK beneath Russia is what country, I will memories it. If looking at the map I can never memorize it. But when changed to bio, I will memories when see the shape/pictogram. Just can’t memories by listen how I learn the map. Most are mix learning. Is depend on how many % more towards

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