Learning About Learning
Glossary
This glossary explains terms used in Learning about Learning. It is not intended to be exhaustive in educational terms, nor does it include an explanation of every word used in the documents and movies. Instead, it seeks to clarify meanings in order to remove potential barriers to understanding and help the reader to appreciate the messages intended more fully.
Keyword search
| VAK | A learning styles' model that gained prominence as a practical method for identifying styles by perceptual sense: Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic. |
|---|---|
| Visual-spatial intelligence | The ability to perceive the visual. Such learners tend to think in pictures and need to create vivid mental images to retain information. Their skills include understanding charts and graphs, sketching, painting, creating visual images and constructing, fixing, and designing practical objects. |
| Visual learning | Learning by having information presented in the form of text, symbols, charts, diagrams and pictures. Visual learners enjoy: writing their own notes showing important words and ideas making graphs and diagrams making mind maps or spider diagrams to show the connections between things learning from videos or TV programmes reading books and magazines or looking at the internet learning from pictures, diagrams, posters and wall charts. |