Picasso Head and Learning Styles

My Picasso head painting is meant to represent an MI of Musical Intelligence. In the picture I tried to convey the image of someone listening to music and being at peace with the world.

A learning style is a student's consistent way of responding to and using stimuli in the context of learning. My views on learning styles are that they should be used on a one on bases with a student, and not with an entire group or class of them, as they all have different ways of learning and processing information. As Stephen Downes said,

“There is no good understanding of learning styles as it stands. But it certainly does not follow that we all learn the same way—the senses may well work in concert, but (as someone with thick glasses, I can attest) some senses work more or less well, meaning that each individual may combine the senses differently.”

Some people, such as Harold E. Pashler, a professor of psychology at the University of California at San Diego, believe that teaching styles should not be used at all, because there is very little evidence that teaching in one certain style will adversely affect a student that doesn’t have that learning style in the long run, if at all. He states,

"We were startled to find that there is so much research published on learning styles, but that so little of the research used experimental designs that had the potential to provide decisive evidence."

It is my opinion that learning styles can be used with students to great effect, by only on individual bases.