Vialogues are awesome, learning styles are fake

I didn't know this! Did you? I just recently discovered Vialouges, and I am totally impressed. Vialogues is basically combining content specific video with dialogue, hence the name. It is a free tool designed and developed by EdLab at Teachers College, Columbia University for literally anyone and everyone, no matter your profession or interests.

“Vialogues provides a space for users to hold meaningful and dynamic time-stamped discussions about videos.”-Vialogues.com

I, for one, find this really exciting because I have been thinking about ways to have meaningful discussions about some of these new concepts and ideas I'm exploring (many of which are communicated in video form on YouTube) with some of my present and former colleagues whose thoughts and opinions I value. Tah-dah!! Vialogue provides an option for private discussions! Then a very wise woman suggested we use our newfound social media tool as food for thought on our blogs. Which brings me to my next point.

Learning styles are fake?? I actually had never even heard that this was up for debunking. After watching Daniel Willgham’s video and thinking about it for a few days (I was kind of shocked at first), I realized that although there is no apparent evidence to support learning styles, differentiation is still very real.

If you are interested in a more thorough discussion, please visit this link and join the conversation. Either way, the video is below.

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