IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING THE STUDENT, THEIR CAPABILITIES AND THEIR COGNITIVE SKILLS TO ENHANCE LEARNING STYLES IN VIRTUAL EDUCATION
Some authors defined education as follows:
Miguel Rojas Sanchez defined education as the gala dress to attend the party of life.
Peters said about education the following: Being educated implies mastery of certain practices, knowledge and understanding of principles. For this ideal to be realized, it is necessary to learn a lot of different things. Consequently, it is logical that we begin to consider the existence of more than one educational process.
Pythagoras: said "It is to temper the soul for the difficulties of life."
All these concepts define an idea that is really important to assume in order to educate but there is nothing more important than learning to know the student and for this it is important to know that teaching through the last years has been transformed in an incredible way until reaching the point of which the scholars of the subject have concluded to study the characteristics of the brain to be able to understand its complexity and to enhance learning in individuals.
This statement really caught my attention, which motivated me to reflect on this issue and investigate the contributions and most representative models that exist in the human brain and the different forms and learning styles that experts have concluded from this in order to optimize the learning in students.
The scholars of the subject noted that when analyzing them they were able to observe the importance of knowing the student, their capacities and their cognitive abilities.
It should be noted that one of the learning styles that teachers are currently focused on is virtual due to the current health emergency and for this we must familiarize ourselves correctly to optimize learning in students.
For this I cite the learning model proposed by Ned Hermann in virtual education which we must study and become familiar with as it leads us to know the capacities and way of absorbing information of each student and in turn generate improvements so that the learning process is effective in a learning environment full of challenges like the virtual one
In this vein, it is important to mention the successful model of Ned Herrmann, developed a model that is inspired by insights into brain function. It represents a sphere divided into four quadrants, resulting in the intersection of the left and right hemispheres of the Sperry model, and the cortical and limbic brains of the McLean model The four quadrants represent four different ways of operating, thinking, creating, learning and, in short, living with the world.
It has been verified and I think it convenient to point out that one of the essential characteristic of the teaching-learning process is to start from the student's knowledge since it is the main axis of the training process and for this it should be understood that at present learning has as a reference of study the brain who is the main actor of learning which is undoubtedly the most important weapon of a person.
In this order of ideas, it is assumed that understanding the functioning of the brain will lead us to promote effective models that help students in their training process since if we know their correct operation we will be able to break all those stigmas that teachers have had for many years
In this way, one of the interesting challenges in this research is to consider each of the characteristics of each section proposed by Ned Hermann to recognize the individual learning style of each student in virtual education and in this way provide adaptations that allow to improve processes of teaching learning more specialized to the learning style of the student of their interests, previous competences, expectations or preferences.
Learning style is the set of psychological characteristics, cognitive, affective and physiological traits that are usually expressed together when a person must face a learning situation. Cognitive traits have to do with the way in which students structure content, form and use concepts, interpret information, solve problems, select means of visual representation ...
Understanding that the teacher is a researcher par excellence, an innovator who must become aware of all the technological as well as educational advances in order to acquire all the possible tools and develop learning styles that are in accordance with the demands that life is placing and demanding. As a challenge the study and the intensification of pedagogical tendencies as well as the particularity of each student to infer optimally in their learning.
Therefore, a study has recently been made with the interest of identifying learning styles and their relationship with the brain quadrants in a group of students. Analyze if each quadrant is associated with a particular style of thinking, creating and learning.
The sample consisted of 30 undergraduate students and six graduate students. The data collection was obtained using the apl udents and six graduate students. The data collection was obtained by applying the Honey-Alonso Learning Styles Questionnaire (CHAEA) and the Herrmann Brain Quadrant Model (HBDI). The variables were studied through a non-experimental design. When performing the analysis of the profile of the Herrmann brain quadrants, the results indicate that most of the students present significant development in quadrants B, C, and D. They show a predominant dominance in the left limbic quadrant (B), quadrant (C)
In this sense, Quadrant A specializes in logical, critical, analytical, qualitative, and fact-based thinking.
Quadrant B is characterized by a planned organized controlled and sequential style of thought. Quadrant C is characterized by an interpersonal, humanistic, spiritual, emotional, sensory, musical and symbolic style of thinking.
Finally, quadrant D stands out for its visual, global, creative, holistic, integrative, synthetic, conceptual, artistic, spatial and metaphorical style of thought.
In this order Hermann defines four learning styles, respectively expert, organizer, communicator and strategist.
Current pedagogical trends are obliged to investigate and examine strategies that truly promote student learning and therefore show a recent interest in teaching strategies and their application to teaching models, which try to move more and more away from traditional models thereby favoring learning in a more effective and innovative.
It is important to note that for teachers this is not really an exhaustive diagnosis of learning styles, but if you do a previous study of these styles at the beginning of the semester or school year, as well as make a diagnosis of previous ideas related to the contents of The subject will allow you to plan methodological strategies that respond to the characteristics of your students and in this way better facilitate their learning
In this order of ideas, it has been verified that not all students acquire their learning in the same, way that they all have their own methods or strategies for learning and each of them respond to different situations and learning environments according to their preferences and abilities. and from there it is where the models of learning styles are necessary so that the student accepts the form of methods or strategies that they use to select, process and work with the information.
Finally, the learning style model proposed by Ned Hermann guides us to know the capacities and way of absorbing information of each student and to improve the learning process that we are currently managing.
In this way we understand the relevance of knowing the student, their cognitive abilities and skills to improve learning, whether in person or virtual.
Reference: Teacher's web blog, Online Learning Styles.
