Learning by Pierce Howard

Author:Pierce Howard
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9780062357656
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-04-20T23:00:00+00:00

People who are strong in one mode may be weaker in the other. Even when learners are strong in both modes, redundancy in instructional design will result in greater learning by the greater number of learners. Consider your favorite speaker (lecturer, rabbi, mullah, and so forth); one reason you like him is probably that he balances abstract points with concrete examples, and not too much of either. An excellent example of this balance, at least in the domain of writing, is the work of the New York Times international affairs writer Thomas Friedman. In his works, such as From Beirut to Lebanon and The Lexus and the Olive Tree (on globalization), he begins each chapter with an abstract point, then proceeds to illustrate it abundantly with concrete stories and other examples.

The experiential mode could be described as more right-brained, the rational mode more left-brained. Arthur Glenberg, psychologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has developed the embodiment theory of memory—that human memory is designed to remember action, not the abstract. Elaborating on this idea in “What Memory Is For,” his paper in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1997), Glenberg says this explains why people are more likely to remember how a machine operates after seeing it demonstrated than after only reading about it. Glenberg’s theory seems to relate to the two modes of Epstein—and the two hemispheres, especially concentrating on the experiential mode.

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