Meeting Learning Styles through the Computer

Abstract

This article describes how the computer can be combined with unit teaching to effectively match instruction to the pupils' learning styles. Essentially, the computer first compiles pupil information into a data bank, then interacts with the data bank and generates individual and group learning style profiles and finally interacts with the learning style profiles and produces instructional units with suggestions matched to the pupils' learning styles. This process can also accommodate new information, as it becomes available, such as the possible implications that research findings, concerning the brain or blood chemistry, might have for meeting the pupils' learning styles.