Oh yeah - big VAK example. I had a similar event in my first Mythology class in High School. I'd been a HUGE fan of it since getting d'Aulaire's Greek Mythology at about 7 or 8, and Bullfinch's at 9. So at 10th grade I was thrilled to have a chance at a Mythology section in English class. The first few days left my head reeling, because I already knew all these stories, but the names didn't match. Well, some like Zeus and Apollo and Diana are easy enough, but Hepheastus threw me for a total loop. Then I realized I'd never had anybody to talk to about these characters. I could recognize it instantly in print, but not out loud. Serious head games for me.
In more recent years, designing adult learning, I found out about Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic. All my surveys put me at very high Visual, some kinesthetic, and barely register auditory. That always struck me as odd, given how much music is a part of my life, until I realized even music gets processed into kinesthetic blocks in my head. If I'm talking to someone about thirds vs fourths, I feel it more in my fingers than I hear it in my head. Playing with chords, I feel it in the spacing - does this note need to be closer or further away from the other? If I'm trying to learn lyrics or a script, I have a hard time picking it up just listening to it (or I'll listen to it a million times in a row - effective, but slow). I need to write or type it by hand (kinesthetic) and look at the words, verses, structure etc (visual).
Brain processing is fun ;-)
Hmmmm. I wonder if there's a higher incidence of absolute pitch in auditory learners, and relative pitch in kinesthetic learners....
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Date: 2010-08-29 03:03 am (UTC)I had a similar event in my first Mythology class in High School. I'd been a HUGE fan of it since getting d'Aulaire's Greek Mythology at about 7 or 8, and Bullfinch's at 9. So at 10th grade I was thrilled to have a chance at a Mythology section in English class. The first few days left my head reeling, because I already knew all these stories, but the names didn't match. Well, some like Zeus and Apollo and Diana are easy enough, but Hepheastus threw me for a total loop. Then I realized I'd never had anybody to talk to about these characters. I could recognize it instantly in print, but not out loud. Serious head games for me.
In more recent years, designing adult learning, I found out about Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic. All my surveys put me at very high Visual, some kinesthetic, and barely register auditory. That always struck me as odd, given how much music is a part of my life, until I realized even music gets processed into kinesthetic blocks in my head. If I'm talking to someone about thirds vs fourths, I feel it more in my fingers than I hear it in my head. Playing with chords, I feel it in the spacing - does this note need to be closer or further away from the other? If I'm trying to learn lyrics or a script, I have a hard time picking it up just listening to it (or I'll listen to it a million times in a row - effective, but slow). I need to write or type it by hand (kinesthetic) and look at the words, verses, structure etc (visual).
Brain processing is fun ;-)
Hmmmm. I wonder if there's a higher incidence of absolute pitch in auditory learners, and relative pitch in kinesthetic learners....