When Words Are Not Enough
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2019-11-06
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Our students do not all learn the same; we know that learning styles play a role in understanding difficult concepts. This means that the written word does not serve every student, and we may have to find new ways to provide explanations in the classroom. In an early textbook example of this, R.V. Pierce compared the body's nervous system to the structure of the telegraph for his widely-used 1895 medical book (Clayton, 2016). Tucker (2017) explains that analogies and metaphors can help business students to understand dreaded accounting concepts, and Brown (2016) reminds us that we learn to associate concepts via imagery as young children. Analogies and imagery can supplement classroom wording with experiential and visual connections so that we reach all students in a wide variety of subjects. In addition to background research, some examples of analogies and imagery will be shared in this session.
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