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we are trying to learn and remember the errand we must
run later in the day (and can forget afterward). Sometimes it
is the new phone number of our best friend (which we do
not want to forget).
Many times, we are not learning the information. We
want someone else to remember something. If you notice
the little signals indicating someone’s dominant learning
preference, you can present the information in the style that
person needs.
The authors were part of a team conducting a national
workshop for engineering professors. One of the things we
taught them was to identify their learning style. One of the
professors confessed that he was strongly kinesthetic. But
what he thought so funny was that he now understood why
his students would be so frustrated. They would come up to
him after class, and no matter what the question was, he al-
ways tried to draw some sort of a picture to represent the
question. They did not want a picture; they wanted him to
clarify what he had said earlier. He needed to adjust his pre-
sentation style to match his students’ learning style.

How auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learners think.