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After completing online session one and all of the homework, please return to this post and answer the Essential Question for Session One by posting a comment to this blog entry.
"What is the relationship between style and the 4MAT Cycle?"
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ReplyDeleteStyle is described as the way or manner something is done. We can style our hair different ways; we can wear a blouse in different ways. How you ask? Well, one day you can wear your blouse with jeans, another day you can decide to wear it with a skirt, and the next day you can wear the same blouse with leggings and a leather jacket. The word style does not simply apply to things like hair and clothes; style can apply to things we do in our professions/careers.
ReplyDeleteEducators and instructors can present course material to their students in different styles. Organizations also utilize different styles to achieve goals, improve employee productivity, increase customer satisfaction, and increase employee engagement. One style being implemented across organizations is the 4MAT method. This method of instruction utilizes the learning styles of all individuals of an organization to create programs and materials.
The 4MAT method recognizes that people “perceive and process” things differently; however, the styles in which people learn are not the only thing to be used (McCarthy, 2006, p.1). 4MAT takes the styles of individuals and creates a cycle that moves like the hands of a clock. On the 4MAT clock (cycle), learning moves from various stages around the clock which includes direct experience, abstract concepts, reflecting, and acting. All elements of the clock will either go through a perceiving or processing stage.
The relationship that exists between style and 4MAT is this. 4MAT utilizes the learning styles of individuals to create a program (4MAT cycle) that will benefit all members of the organization and help them succeed.
References
McCarthy, B. (2006). Teaching around the 4MAT cycle. Wauconda, IL: About Learning Inc.
Enjoyed your review of the possible meanings of Style. Question, do the different approaches to learning (styles) that people have create the need for a Cycle of learning, or is the Cycle the cause of the styles? Keep this question in mind as we move through the course.
ReplyDeleteFor the purposes of this question, I consider "style" synonymous with approach or method. There is the style of the instructor--rigid, meticulous, or laissez-faire--and there is the style, or approach, of how the learner takes in new information. While the style is about perceiving--and perhaps anticipating how new information is perceived--the 4MAT Cycle is the approach that accounts for all possible styles of both instruction and learning.
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding one's natural instructional or learning style is key to digesting and implementing 4MAT. Without understanding the motivations, concerns, needs of each style, an instructor can easily miss the purpose of 4MAT's structure. As a result, the learner does not make the connection.
The 4MAT cycle is a response to diverse learning styles. The complexity and make-up of the human brain requires varied information delivery to reach every learner in the room. In understanding round vs. linear processing, the Instructor holds an opportunity to create a responsive learning environment that brings all new content full circle.
-Lindsey Seegers
Yes, 4MAT was designed to enable understanding of multiple styles.
DeleteAnd the Cycle is a response to those differences. And, in addition, the cycle is brain compatible.
To my understanding, Style is a way of doing something, a method, a pattern of doing. The style is a way of functioning; it varies among people and in the way they perceive learning and the way they acquire it. The style might change with time and place. However, the 4MAT cycle is consistent this cycle is a cycle that all learner with different learning styles go through to acquire and complete their learning. The learning is a life long learning kind, since the learner understands the why, the what the how and applying the learning in different What if situations.
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