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The learning techniques They are teaching methods and resources used by students to understand and assimilate a certain knowledge, value, skill or ability. In general, teachers and teachers use these techniques at different stages of teaching in order to bring students closer to a certain content. These techniques are usually individual activities and group dynamics that contribute to student learning. For example: preparation of concept maps, oral presentations, debates.
In children and young people, learning techniques are usually applied at school (alone or with peers) or at home. Some techniques not only facilitate access to knowledge but also promote the development of social skills.
There are various learning techniques for the stimulation of intelligence and learning. Many of them focus on analysis and experimentation, rather than memorization and repetition of information. These tools will be more or less effective according to each person, since each one has its own learning method and techniques.
Learning types
There are different types of learning that vary from person to person. Each of these types uses different tools and techniques. They can be classified according to the sensory channel in:
- Visual learning. Uses learning techniques that include pictures, charts, and graphs. Through them the person visualizes concepts and understands them.
- Auditory learning. Use listening techniques such as discussions, music, dictations, videos. Through them the person manages to assimilate and remember different concepts and contents.
- Kinesthetic learning. Uses techniques that include interaction between students. In this type of learning, people perceive and assimilate information through the body, interaction and experimentation.
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Examples of learning techniques
- Dialogue or debate. Learning technique used to obtain individual or team opinions. The debate encourages the exchange of opinions and concepts. Likewise, the knowledge of the whole group is enriched. It is important to create an environment for dialogue in which all opinions are included.
- Brainstorming. It is one of the most used creative techniques. A word, phrase or image is used as a trigger for the development of new ideas. Often two words that have no common link can be presented in order to work from them.
- Dramatization. Technique used to understand social situations. The purpose of the dramatization technique is to strengthen ties with peers, promote empathy and solidarity; as well as working on the elaboration of logical responses and motor functions.
- Exhibition technique. Technique that consists of the oral presentation of a specific topic. In this technique the aim is for the student to understand a certain topic so that they can then present it in front of their classmates. Encourages the learning of public speaking techniques.
- Conceptual maps. Technique by which conceptual maps, flowcharts or synoptic tables are made to assimilate the key words or main concepts of a given topic.
- Research work. A hypothesis or initial question is proposed and theoretical information is sought or experimentation is carried out in order to test whether the hypothesis is proven or not.
- He drew. Technique that allows the stimulation of the right hemisphere, in charge of images and people's creativity.
- Comparative tables. Technique that is used when two or more theories are opposed. Different variables to be analyzed are presented in the table. With this technique, concepts and definitions are visually fixed.
- Time lines. Technique used to facilitate the notion of time and to be able to remember important dates and events in a simple and visual way and to be able to establish relationships between them.
- Study of cases. Technique that focuses on the study of a specific case (in the social field, of law) so that through the analysis of a particular situation, certain knowledge can be understood and recorded.
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