Learning Line

How I Learn

After taking the Vark Questionnaire I have been identified as a :

Aural / Auditory (A):
This perceptual mode describes a preference for information that is "heard or spoken." Students with this modality report that they learn best from lectures, tutorials, tapes, group discussion, email, using mobile phones, speaking, web chat and talking things through. It includes talking out loud as well as talking to yourself. Often people with this preference want to sort things out by speaking, rather than sorting things out and then speaking.

I had the highest score on this particular learning type I am not surprised because I feel that I am a Aural/Auditory learner because I prefer for things to be explained and discussed rather than just be put on paper in writing.

I am surprised about scoring quite high on the (Read/write) (R) because I never had myself down as a person that likes to do alot of reading when learning. But saying that I think when I am learning different things I like to learn different ways, so I could have multiple learning styles which is explained briefly on the Vark-learn website.

My least favourite learning style according to the questionnaire is the Visual (V), I feel that I am enhancing this learning style at the moment because I am currently studying Computer Networking, and the majority of the things we learn are visual based.

Learning Development Skills (Swot Annalasyis)

Strengths:

• Speaking And Listening
• Good Time-Management
• Able to use information from many sources
• Can contribute actively to a small group
• Can recognise my strentghs and weaknesses
• Can use email
• Able to word process
• Able to retrieve information from Disk, CDROM, Internet, Data storage USB stick
• Able to collect, record and handle data
• Can recognise strenghts and weaknesses of other in the group

Weaknesses:

• How to reference academic work
• Styles of writing for differnet purposes
• Selective reading
• Sound study techniques

Opportunities:

• Learning and support systems at the university
• Virtual learning environment (VLE)
• Mentors at the university
• Students' Union
• University Library

Threats:

• How to reference acdemic work
• Selective reading
• Other learning resources
• Interpret data in a variety of formats
• Sound study techniques
• Presentations

Summary of Swot Annalasyis:

After doing the Swot Annalasyis task i have identified my Strenghts, Weaknesses, Threats and what Opportunities i have. This will enable me to understand and overcome some of my threats and weaknesses, the task gave me a headstart on some of the stuff i need to work on to improve my learning skills, i also gained some information of what opportunities the university offer that will help me academically. The Swot annalasyis is very useful because it helps you identify your weaknesses and threats so you can improve on them.