Learning visually or not
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In a message dated 1/14/2005 8:25:17 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
game-enthusiast@... writes:
I struggle to remember people's names and faces. I struggle to
remember where I know them from if I haven't seen them often. I never
notice what people are wearing or if they gain or lose weight, unless it's a
substantial amount. Things like that.
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Me too.
I was asked "what does he look like?" about my best friend once, and after
I made the description, the other people around me laughed. It was
apparently about five years out of date.
When I see a person, I don't look visually. I see them as all the ways they
have ever been since I've known them. I see the history and the soul of
them. So people I don't know yet I find very hard to recognize the second or
third time, until I HAVE them, until I have some depth and perspective on them.
Some people are very visual even if they haven't seen. A homeschool mom
I've been on a little e-mail loop with for ten years now described me once
before she had ever met me. Every little clue I had ever given in any
conversation over about a year, she had filed into a physical image. She was right.
I'm more likely to remember what religion someone grew up in and where they've
lived than how tall they are or what color their hair is.
Kirby took his long sideburns off. I didn't notice, Holly told me.
So I think some teachers in school assume that others are as visual as they
are. Some things are easy for visual learners. Maps, pictures of the
skeletal or circulatory systems.
Sometimes new homeschoolers want to find their child's learning style and
just live there, but I think few people are really duds in any one area so it's
best to make ALL kinds of information available and let them take it in as
they will. Some aural, some visual, some tactile, whatever.
Oh, and of "aural" and me: If I hear a name, I often ask for a spelling. I
remember it from picturing it written better than from hearing it spoken.
Years back someone had come across a learning disability (I hope one of you
will remember or know how to find it, if it wasn't just a one-time fluke
little article) in which the person can ONLY learn through the written word and no
other way. And it had been given some greco/latin scientific name and
called a disability.
Sandra
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game-enthusiast@... writes:
I struggle to remember people's names and faces. I struggle to
remember where I know them from if I haven't seen them often. I never
notice what people are wearing or if they gain or lose weight, unless it's a
substantial amount. Things like that.
===========
Me too.
I was asked "what does he look like?" about my best friend once, and after
I made the description, the other people around me laughed. It was
apparently about five years out of date.
When I see a person, I don't look visually. I see them as all the ways they
have ever been since I've known them. I see the history and the soul of
them. So people I don't know yet I find very hard to recognize the second or
third time, until I HAVE them, until I have some depth and perspective on them.
Some people are very visual even if they haven't seen. A homeschool mom
I've been on a little e-mail loop with for ten years now described me once
before she had ever met me. Every little clue I had ever given in any
conversation over about a year, she had filed into a physical image. She was right.
I'm more likely to remember what religion someone grew up in and where they've
lived than how tall they are or what color their hair is.
Kirby took his long sideburns off. I didn't notice, Holly told me.
So I think some teachers in school assume that others are as visual as they
are. Some things are easy for visual learners. Maps, pictures of the
skeletal or circulatory systems.
Sometimes new homeschoolers want to find their child's learning style and
just live there, but I think few people are really duds in any one area so it's
best to make ALL kinds of information available and let them take it in as
they will. Some aural, some visual, some tactile, whatever.
Oh, and of "aural" and me: If I hear a name, I often ask for a spelling. I
remember it from picturing it written better than from hearing it spoken.
Years back someone had come across a learning disability (I hope one of you
will remember or know how to find it, if it wasn't just a one-time fluke
little article) in which the person can ONLY learn through the written word and no
other way. And it had been given some greco/latin scientific name and
called a disability.
Sandra
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I'm a visual learner/rememberer and I have to *see* a name to remember it. Same with the telephone -- I have a hard time remembering the finer points of a more technical conversation because I can't see the person enunciate, or they can't show me their notes. Probably why I tend to remember more of what I read than what I hear. I can't seem to focus aurally.
Janet
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Janet
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Eric Donato
On Jan 14, 2005, at 9:04 AM, SandraDodd@... wrote:
it had been the same for 10 years, and he had long hair when I first
met him... we went to a crowded movie theater that night after the
haircut, and I still wasn't used to the change... so when the movie let
out we were in a big crowd, and I lost sight my husband in all the
people, I felt the parasympathetic/ panic reflexes starting up... well
he was standing right next to me, and when I finally recognized him, I
screamed and then he panicked... so funny!
Jules.
>Hahaha, lol, this reminds me of when my husband cut off his long hair,
> Kirby took his long sideburns off. I didn't notice, Holly told me.
>
it had been the same for 10 years, and he had long hair when I first
met him... we went to a crowded movie theater that night after the
haircut, and I still wasn't used to the change... so when the movie let
out we were in a big crowd, and I lost sight my husband in all the
people, I felt the parasympathetic/ panic reflexes starting up... well
he was standing right next to me, and when I finally recognized him, I
screamed and then he panicked... so funny!
Jules.