Dan Willingham's campaign against common sense continues apace, with yet more coverage (this time in the Washington Post, which has a major business publishing the sort of resource someone who agreed with Willingham might advocate). Willingham's argument is typically presented as "there are no learning styles," but becomes something rather less definite when challenged - something more like Eide's question as to "whether too much burden is placed on teachers to teach toward different learning styles rather than students to identify how they learn best," which is the same point again. But that does not mean there are no learning styles, not that they are unimportant in learning. "The educational literature is rife with differences between dyslexic and non-dyslexic thinking styles," for example, "probably part of the reason so many dyslexics are frustrated in conventionally taught schools."
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