Do you learn better by trying things out yourself? Or do like everything to be quick and easy, so you depend on instructions or other people? Do you do better by seeing things done or hearing about how to do them?

Personally, I like to try things out myself. Usually when someone tries to tell me how to do something they either confuse me more or just get on my nerves. But when I have to have someone help me I like to go step by step and see how it's done.

I think I'm generally a fast learner, and I usually study independtly from others, just because I get distracted way too easily.

I'm an AR CR with serious ADD. I need things presented to me in different means, visual and aural works well, and Hands-on while both visual and aural are going works best. So lab classes really resonate with me. I like being able to touch things, draw them, and hear about them, and everyone else hates me because I throw the curve.

I'm visual/lecture

I forget things very easily, but I tend to remember things more if it was something hands-on.
If I'm tearing apart a computer or stripping something for parts, I remember a vast majority of what I did and how to put it back together.
So things like writing and typing I remember pretty well.

So hands-on things are how I learn pretty much. I also learn quite a bit from reading, but it's harder to keep my attention on it if I'm reading it.

As far as things go in the classroom, if the teacher is an animated speaker, I will remember and learn a lot more as well. But my mind gets off track even easier when I have to listen to a lecture/lesson.

I fail at studying, so I take lots of notes during class.
That's the only way I can get it to stick in my head.
^^;

I like being able to do things myself.
Or some one just telling me the TO THE POINT way of doing things.

I'm a horrible study kinda person, so I like it when teachers show you how to do things step by step. It makes it easier to understand the material.

I'm a quick learner, but I prefer to have someone help me, as in a teacher. I've self-taught myself classes before, and it just plain isn't fun.

I tend to be more of a visual learner than anything else. Once I've written it down and see it in front of me, I can remember it really well. In some cases I have an almost photographic memory, but it has to be something I read very carefully or it simply won't stick.

I am a visual learner

I usually learn things better by doing them myself. Give me one example, let me try it and I usually have it by half way though class.

I am a fast learner when I want to be xD

I usually like the hands on learning approach but I can also handle learning things through other methods of learing as well :yes:

*notices how many times she has used the word learn* xD

i do things by myself. if i cant get it, i have somebody explain it to me, which i hate to do, so its a last resort. i usually whisper the problems to myself, because, since i tend to talk to myself, it helps me focus to say stuff out loud. but i have to here it or it just doesnt work out, so if the class is loud i just flat out talk and sort of explain the steps to myself as i go along. i have a bit of a bad attention span, especially in school, and this helps me focus.

I like to try things myself if I know that I might be capable of whatever it is. If I don't think I can do it or can't do it right then I'll get help. :3

I don't like the choices you gave me. The two main ways of learning that I categorize people into are; visual spatial, this type of learner understands the information better if it is given in a pictoral or animated way and they need to have the information on a wall or laptop screen infront of them and not a textbook on the top of a desk (I am a visual spatial learner and I think that visual spatial learners are more likely to be artistically inclined. Also I have met and had an evaluation done by the lady who coined the term "visual spatial", doctor Lindsa Silverman.) Because having the textbook on top of a desk causes them to not understand the material as well as they possibly could.

The other category is Audio Sequential. That is the way schools teach students. I know a lot less about Audio Sequential, though I believe that Audio Sequential learners are more inclined to the academics and not the arts. I believe this because of the way things are taught in a classroom setting, that doesn't mean that there isn't an Audio Sequential learner who is an artist or a Visual Spatial learner to be in academia.

It has always buged me that schools cannot and will not help all of their students learn things to the best of their abilities. I mean, isn't that a school's job, to teach ALL students of ALL kinds? They have special programs for the mentally impared and gifted students, so why they can't (I know, I know funding.... But schioling the public should be the first priority of every state and the whole country. Better education is, in my opinion, the best way to lower violence and crime rates. Abetter educated public means more people who have jobs and don't have the need to turn to crime to scrape by.) they have seperate classes for these two types of learners? That would mean more jobs which would help the econemy out and that would in turn create a better public causing us to, in general, have a better econemy.

I aslo am apalled by this fact: the classes you have to take to become a teacher still teaches you things that are now, with research and such, to be obsolete! This means we have a whole slug of people teaching kids in an archaic manner! As I said before schooling should be the first priority and that should be helped by teachers knowing recent knowledge and relevant information to help them better teach their students. Having more teachers means a higher teacher-to-student ratio meaning more one on one help for students which, will result in a better educated public.

See what could happen if education became a bigger importance than it already is?

I prefer learning things by myself. I'm also a visual learner, so pictures and videos really help me. Someone who teaches simply and fairly and doesn't nit pick over tiny details is also a good way of how I learn well. A teacher that challenges me also helps.

I had this one teacher, who gave me a D on a paper because I didn't explain things well enough. He challenged me to explain things like I was teaching it to a 5th grader. So thats what I did. and gradually my essays got A work..which is good I think. I'm glad I learned to improve myself.

We just talked about this in science today. o.O
Kinesthetic, Visual, and auditory.
We did a lab on it. I got visual, unfortunately I guess I learn best by my eyes.
I think I'm pretty fast hearing things too. I think I'm all of them.

I do best when I get some instructions as I go along.

I'm a hands on learner. Diagrams and videos can only get me so far. Written instructions work too. Auditory? Hah! I'm awful at auditory-based learning. Seeing it and trying it out for myself is how I best operate.

Both actually, whatever works in the situation I am in. If it's for a personal project though I tend to figure it out myself.

I learn best by reading something something and then writing it out. Rinse and repeat for something I have to memorize.

If it's a project, I read the instructions, and try to work it out. I guess that makes me a 'visual/hands on' learner?

My son is the opposite. He'll have his homework paper out in front of him and not understand what the question is until someone comes over and reads it out loud, maybe paraphrases. Then he's got it. >.>'

I definitely agree with Ogaku Tenshi, especially with how schools should be a top priority.

When I'm older, I would love to be an elementary school English teacher, but being just an elementary school teacher would be wonderful in general.

As for myself, I think I'm a visual/hands on learning. I love doing labs and stuff, and it really does seem that when I just sit down and study my schoolwork and whatnot, it's better than just listening and trying to remember everything that the teacher says.

I like learning by instruction but I always got more done when I did it myself. I'm a fast learner, so other people tend to hold me back a bit. I'm also kind of odd because I'm not a hands on learner. I like reading it out of books first and then I might attempt it hands-on.