Academic Literacies: Week 1 - Identifying my learning style.

The most significant thing that I learned this week in Academic Literacy class is that, how to identify the learning styles which suits me most. Now I realize that there are different learning styles such as visual, auditory and kinesthetic, because my lecturer brought up this very interesting topic last week. The lecturer gave us a questionnaire to fill up in order to find out what kind of a learner I am. According to the way that I have ticked, it shows me clearly that I am a kinesthetic learner over visual and auditory learner. I have uploaded my questionnaire for reference.

As per my research, kinesthetic learners carry out physical activities, rather than listening to a lecture or watching demonstrations. I think this new understanding of learning is a true fact because when I reflect on my past I really am a learner who learned by modeling all concepts. It implies to me, how to develop my learning skills into an accurate way of learning.

This concept of learning is valuable for me because in the future as an aspiring Engineer, I have to do lot of researches and many theories to absorb throughout my career. According to my research, this learning style is quite common among engineers. This has increased my confidence in choosing this discipline at university. This new understanding will help me in a number of ways; how to conduct myself during lectures, what will be the best way to store information and how to do my lab practical’s accurately and researches as well.

Now I have understood my learning style so here are some of my strategies and ideas that I have taken to perform well in my future.

Make models to physically experience learning. For example: Building circuits to understand theories in electronics.
Skim through the reading material before reading it in detail.
Annotate text and write questions while reading and listening to the lecturer.
Translate information into diagrams.
Memorize while moving.
Listen to music while studying.