Planning à la Mode: Match Your Technology Mix to Students' Learning Patterns

Lon M. Stettler
Electronic School, September 1995, A28-A29

Report of an instructional technology plan in the Hamilton City, Ohio schools (K-12; enrollment 11,360), in which students were grouped into four learning style categories: acquirer of information, retriever of information, constructor of information, and presenter of information. Acquirers, or information consumers, work best with tutorial, simulation, and drill-and practice programs. Retrievers, or information searchers, prefer non-linear modes such as the World Wide Web and CD-ROM. Constructors, or information producers, require creative software that challenge higher-level thinking processes. Presenters, or information showers, like multimedia and hypermedia products.

Planners need to find out from the teachers how much of each style of learning they will need, and propose acquisition of software products appropriately.

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