Learning Styles/ICT

A recent independent research report (ImpaCT2) showed that ICT can help raise standards. It looked at the relationship between pupils use of ICT and their performance in exams. High ICT users performed better than low ICT users at key stages 2 and 3. The difference in performance was the equivalent of a whole term or a grade at GCSE. Researchers also noted than high ICT use leads to a change in learners learning style. They were able to study better by themselves and were more independent, not so reliant on a teacher to give them all the answers.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/languageassistant-essential-ict-education.htm

Using ICT can help pupils to:
access, select and interpret information
recognise patterns, relationships and behaviours
model, predict and hypothesise
test reliability and accuracy
review and modify their work to improve the quality (see examples)
communicate with others and present information (see examples)
evaluate their work
improve efficiency (see examples)
be creative and take risks (see examples)
gain confidence and independence
http://www.ncaction.org.uk/subjects/english/ict-lrn.htm

this suggests that students all learn differently even in the ICT classroom, students need to be paired with other students who learn in the same way, from those who are kinetic to those who are logical. the students who are v ery different in personality will likely clash and be unable to work together, so it is probably best that students are grouped wi th like personalities and like learning styles... relationships between students who have the same learning style tend to improve as they work co-operativley to reach an outcome. Students who help to teach another learn more, so students who are technologically advanced could be placed with students who are not as advanced to improve outcomes...