GDES2014 – Children’s Book Design
As part of the]is weeks lecture we were paired up and asked to interview the person we were sat with to determine what type of learner they are from the following : Aduitory, Visual or Kinesthetic.
We then had to create a blog post from our partners answers, effectively creating an “interview” f ourselves.
- Q1 – What kind of learner (or mix of) are you?
- A – I think a combination of all of them.
- Q2 – Why do you think this, please explain giving one or more examples.
- A – Audio – When I’m working I listen to music as it focuses my mind and motivates me. Visual – I’m a designer, I like pictures. Kinesthetic – I’m very tactile, I like the touch and feel and smell of things (I’m a touchy, feely kind of a person).
- Q3 – When you were a child in school did you use specific techniques to learn better?
- A -When revising in school (and now) I tended to take complicated chunks of information, read through and highlight key points. I would then rewrite the notes to improve my understanding of them and collect them in manner I understand. I then use repetition and simplification by creating bullet points, this then helps the important information to sink in and creates information triggers based on word play. I also use mind mapping.
- Q4 – What situations do you find it difficult to learn in and what would help to improve?
- A – Loud or noisy environments. I’m also not great at working in groups where everyone has ideas and they vocalize them at the same time, everyone wants to talk but no-one wants to listen, this can send me to meltdown. I often prefer to work alone.
- Q5 – When you do research for a module, do you have any ‘tricks’ that help you better take in the things you find and relate to projects ongoing?
- A – See response for question 3, but to expand on mind mapping. I tend to write down key words and then connect lots of other words/topics which helps me when creating new ideas.
- Q6 – Has hearing this today given you a ‘lightbulb moment’?
- A -No, not at all. The information is nothing new to me as I’ve done similar exercises in the past. That said, it does make you stop and think about how I could further develop my learning techniques.