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Where can you find resources compatible with your personal learning style? There’s an abundance of awesome online VAK resources right at your fingertips: Lectures, video tutorials, amazing websites, broadcasts, podcasts, and historical data and images provide students with immediate access to learning resources. More and more content goes online everyday. It’s inexcusable to give up in the face of a learning challenge! Knowing where to find reliable VAK resources is an excellent study skill that will serve you well through high school and college. Many students don’t realize that help is available online, 24/7 in all subject areas, for all learning styles:
Visual learners! Bring history or science alive on websites like Eyewitness to History (www.eyewitnesstohistory.com), Cells Alive (www.cellsalive.com), YouTube.com/education, or learning.snagfilms.com. There are many excellent online resources and apps containing visual imagery which will bring greater depth or clarification to your learning. They aren't hard to find. Don't wait for your teacher to suggest one. Actively seek out and incorporate good visual resources into your learning routine.
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Auditory learners, listen up! You can download audio books from any number of sites, including Librivox (www.librivox.com). You can also make and replay audio recordings of your notes or textbook chapters on Vocaroo (www.vocaroo.com). There are many excellent online lectures, podcasts, and other recordings which bring greater depth or clarification to your learning. They aren’t hard to find. Don’t wait for your teacher to suggest them. Actively seek out and incorporate good auditory resources into your learning routine.
Kinesthetic learners! It's not easy being a kinesthetic learner in a primarily visual-learner world. To incorporate movement into your learning routine, download lectures and other audio resources to your mobile device and listen on-the-go. There are math tutorials, history videos, world language (auditory) pronunciation guides, study guides for novels, interactive maps, and geography websites. Download books from websites like audiobooksforfree.com. librivox. org and gutenberg.com for free. The choices are endless!
Bookmark your go-to websites The websites listed on the chart on pages 46 through 49 represent just a fraction of the amazing resources available online for high school students. Review and research these websites. Select and bookmark a few websites (and apps!) that appeal to your learning style. When you encounter a learning dilemma, or simply want to enhance your learning, log on to your go-to website or open your helpful app and get the information you need.
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