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Teaching according to Learning Styles and ..the evil eye

Identifying and catering to individual students learning style is a belief held by many educators around the world. It seems that it's one of the popular misconceptions.
Research suggests that learning styles don't actually exist!

How can a common, generally accepted notion be wrong ? Confirmation bias seems to be the reasonable answer to this. People tend to look for information that confirms their belief and ignore data that challenges their idea. (think of astrology and zodiac signs, evil spirit, populist politicians etc)

4 interesting links to the topic


 No evidence to back the idea of learning styles

Learning styles misconception

Howard Gardner: ‘Multiple intelligences’ are not ‘learning styles’ - The Washington Post

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/enough-with-the-learning-styles-already/

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