Key words:
senses, practical exercises, examples, cases, trial and error.
Description:
This preference uses your experiences and the things that are real even when they are shown in pictures and on screens.
If you have a strong Kinesthetic preference for learning you should use some or all of the following:
INTAKE
To take in the information:
· all your senses – sight, touch, taste, smell, hearing …
· laboratories
· field trips
· field tours
· examples of principles
· lecturers who give real-life examples
· applications
· hands-on approaches (computing)
· trial and error
· collections of rock types, plants, shells, grasses…
· exhibits, samples, photographs…
· recipes – solutions to problems, previous exam papers
SWOT – Study without tears
To make a learnable package:
Convert your “notes” into a learnable package by reducing them (3:1)
· Your lecture notes may be poor because the topics were not ‘concrete’ or ‘relevant’.
· You will remember the “real” things that happened.
· Put plenty of examples into your summary. Use case studies and applications to help with principles and abstract concepts.
· Talk about your notes with another “K” person.
· Use pictures and photographs that illustrate an idea.
· Go back to the laboratory or your lab manual.
· Recall the experiments, field trip…
OUTPUT
To perform well in any test, assignment or examination:
· Write practice answers, paragraphs…
· Role play the exam situation in your own room.