Thursday, September 21, 2023

"Learning styles" debunked

 

     The degree to which the education community—even the higher education community—accepts trendy, unscientific codswallop is stunning, and disturbing. 
     Remember the "whole language" vs. "phonics" battle, starting in the 50s? The long-discredited "whole language" approach is still insisted upon in much of K-12 and it infests college instruction to a degree as well. See Systematic rational failures and SLOs: part I (DtB). See also Cut the politics. Phonics is the best way to teach reading.  (Washington Post editorial board; March 11, 2023)
     The sad truth is that many educators have no understanding of the notion of evidence or scientific method.

2 comments:

Kathie Jenni said...

Love this guy.

Roy Bauer said...

His series is really quite good and consistently so.

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...