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Activity 1 I read an article about kinesthetic learning. I am very heavily a kinesthetic learner over any other type of learning. In my opinion, kinesthetic learning is an important way for many kids to learn that is not used to its fullest extent. Education is important when it is catered to each individual learner so that it can best suit the students. I thought everything was relevant to the topic article. The one part that was a bit of a tangent was the “lack of evidence” section. This section basically says that there is a lack of real evidence on whether or not different people actually do learn in different distinct ways. This section was very different from the rest of the article even though it was related to the theme. Everything in this article is up to date. I think they could add some information about how they test to find out students’ learning styles. This article is not exactly neutral. It says how this is a good thing that can benefit education, but then it also states the lack of evidence behind it. The VARK system (visual, aural, read/write and kinesthetic) is a viewpoint that I thought was underrepresented. I think there could have been a bit more detail on this system as a whole (although the article does link to the VARK Wikipedia page). All of the citations that I clicked on were from journal articles and books that I had to buy online to view. They came from reputable journals that I have heard of. This tells me that the sources used for this article are reliable. I only wish I could read them to see if they line up with the views expressed in the article. Each fact is referenced correctly to a source. There is no bias noted in any spot in the article. The sources all appear to be scientific journals that are not biased, but it is hard to tell since I cannot access the sources.

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Article Selection The Neil fleming article is relevant to my topic of kinesthetic learning Kinesthetic learning is a learning style so, it is relevant to the article on learning styles. Kinaesthetics is the study of body motion. This relates to kinaesthetic learning because kinaesthetic learning is the study of body movement.

All of the chosen articles are written neutrally

The Neil Fleming article needs more citations, the other 2 articles have verified citations.

For the Neil Fleming article, no, the citations are not reliable. For the other 2 articles, the citations are reliable.

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“Doing” Research - Research Questions

Many people are impacted by my topic. My topic affects younger, more active people. Both genders are affected concerning my topic. Active professions are especially affected. Im interested in the active portion of my topic. Im an active person and it interests me to think about physical activity in an intellectual way. I am interested in the current situation of kinesthetic learning. The process relates to the brain and that itself is an interesting topic that caught my attention. The future of kinesthetic learning can only get more exciting. Professions like coaching and other active learners who have an active workplace such as a basketball court or a football field are targets of kinesthetic learning. Can kinesthetic learning benefit education in the classroom now and in the future?

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it can be very helpful for physics instructors to develop and employ pedagogical techniques that help students to visualize and to reason productively about these concepts. A particularly effective strategy uses Kinesthetic Learning Activities

Dena Lister’s article, titled “Effects of Traditional Versus Tactual and Kinesthetic Learning-Style Responsive Instructional Strategies on Bermudian Learning-Support Sixth-Grade Students' Social Studies Achievement and Attitude-Test Scores”, highlights the improvements that were found in classroom performance of sixth-grade learning-support students. Lister writes, “The LSS students also produced significantly the first Learning-Style treatment, suggesting that this particular Learning-Style instructional approach, rather than Traditional teaching, was a more effective instructional strategy for these students."

The conclusion states, “The study revealed that participants prefer to learn using unimodal VARK modalities, and the dominant learning style was kinesthetic”

Signs of a kinesthetic learner section Your knee is bouncing constantly — in fact, it is doing so right now. You regularly kick a soccer ball, or toss a baseball, or spin a basketball on your finger while having a conversation. You have ever grossed out your own family by cracking your knuckles too much. You talk with your hands… always. You pace when you really need to cram for a test. You mime things to boost your memory (or maybe you’re just a mime — and that’s really unique). You have gotten in trouble more than twice for tapping your pencil on your desk or clicking your pen… in the same class period. You think best when you’re exercising. You remember your notes best when you’ve written them down with your hand rather than typing them out. You touch everything you pass in a store without thinking about it. Seriously. Everything. Why? Because you’re a kinesthetic learner.

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Dena Lister highlights the improvements that were found in classroom performance of sixth-grade learning-support students. Lister writes, “The LSS students also produced significantly the first Learning-Style treatment, suggesting that this particular Learning-Style instructional approach, rather than Traditional teaching, was a more effective instructional strategy for these students." [14]

AJ Richards points out it can be very helpful for physics instructors to develop and employ pedagogical techniques that help students to visualize and to reason productively about these concepts. A particularly effective strategy uses Kinesthetic Learning Activities.[15]

Signs of a kinesthetic learner[edit source] Skylar Anderson points out signs that may lead one to believing they are a kinesthetic learner. For example in his work he states the following signs, your knee is bouncing constantly. You regularly kick a soccer ball, or toss a baseball, or spin a basketball on your finger while having a conversation. You crack your fingers while preparing for, or doing, an activity. You talk using your hands as a compliment to your speech. You pace when you really need to cram information for a test. You mime things to boost your memory. You have gotten in trouble more than twice for tapping your pencil on your desk or clicking your pen in the same class period. You think best when you’re exercising. You remember your notes best when you’ve written them down with your hand rather than typing them out. You touch everything you pass in a store without thinking about it. [16]