Introduction and Learning Styles

Introduction

 When it comes to being a 21 year old in a generation that has been engulfed in technology, I only have a very basic. I have Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to keep up with friends, but I don't have the wherewithal to do anything innovative with technology yet. In the realm of technology in education, I am good at using Microsoft Word, and that's about it. However, at this moment, I'm using a blog, so having a limited knowledge means that I have even more room to learn.

This class is the perfect place to advance my knowledge and skills with technology to get to the point where I can use technology to do innovative and progressive things in my future career. I hope to learn many different technology platforms in this class. I also hope to learn how to access a population that I would otherwise not be able to access. With this larger network, I'll be able to give and receive information and keep learning more and more everyday.

Learning Styles

 I recently took a quiz to see what my learning styles are and this is what my results are:
I learned that I am heavily intuitive in the category of Intuitive vs. Sensing. Though I think this is a strength of mine, it has also plagued me because I am not a big fan of details and I find myself either skipping over the little details in things and subsequently missing some things in tests. My next highest score was global in the Sequential vs. Global styles. I was actually surprised by this because I normally consider myself strong at linear thinking, but when I read the explanation on both, the global learning explanation fits me far better because I find myself having a lot of big "aha" moments in my learning. I scored fairly neutral in the Active vs. Reflective category and the Visual vs. Verbal category. This did not surprise me because I learn well with visual or verbal learning, and I find myself reflecting and acting the same amount.

Comments

  1. Zhongrui (Ray) YaoJanuary 14, 2020 at 4:03 PM

    It's totally OK that you only have a very basic. We will work together to advance your knowledge and skills in using different kinds of technologies and programs to communicate our ideas and engage students, and etc. :)

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