My Learning Style

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My Learning Style 1 My Learning Style Dylan Chambers COLL100 I053 Sum 12 American Military University Christian Barnes-Young My Learning Style 2 My Learning Style There are several different types of learning styles that help people learn. There are people that prefer to learn visually. To learn visually means that you grasp the subject better when you are taught through images, pictures, color and other visual media to help learn. Another style is aural learning which means people use sound, rhyme, and music to understand. Furthermore there are verbal learners. Verbal learners use speech and writing as a way to attain the information being presented. If those styles do not work, there is also a physical learning style which involves the use of touch, action, movement or just overall hands-on work. The logic learning style is when someone needs to expand and know how you came about the answer. They need to see the whole picture in order to understand the subject. The next style is what is known as the social learner. A social learner aims to work with others as much as possible. Opposite of the social learner is the solitary learner. Solitary learners find that learning alone using self-study is more productive than working in small or large groups. Now that I have briefly discussed the different learning styles, I am going to apply how they relate to me and how I am going to get my degree. Based on attributeadvanogy.com (2004) and J. White (2009) I am a physical learner. Being a physical learner, I like to work with my hands and take things apart and then put them back together in order to get a better understanding of how it works. I need to be physically doing something or holding something in order to retain the most information. As an example, I use flash cards when I try to memorize things for
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