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Learning styles is the #1 neuromyth.

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Well, the good news is there's plenty of work here to keep us busy?

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This week’s #MedEd #Tweetorial will focus on #LearningStyles. Courtesy of my @uicdme coursework with @mededdoc

What are learning styles?
Is there evidence to support them?
Should we tailor our teaching (or learning) to them?

Let’s get started.
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What are learning styles?

This article by Pashler et al (doi.org/10.1111/j.1539…) defines learning styles as

“the view that different people learn information in different ways”
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To most of us, the concept of learning styles makes intuitive sense.

One popular model (by Dunn and Dunn) includes the concept of “modality preferences” where individuals prefer that information appeals to one of the senses: auditory, visual, tactile, or kinaesthetic.
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