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  Hi!  I meant to send the response to Bill's comment to the TBL group, 
but only sent it to him.  So here is what I sent to him.  (Usually, one 
hits "reply" in a Listserv and the message goes to everyone.  The 
opposite happened in this case.  LOL!!!)

Chuck Killingsworth

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: team transparency
Date: 	Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:29:38 -0500
From: 	Charles Killingsworth <[log in to unmask]>
To: 	[log in to unmask]



  Bill:  Have you checked out Dr. Bernice McCarthy's 4MAT Model?  See
www.aboutlearning.com for more information.  One can take only one
aspect of something that is fairly complex and tear it apart, what is
important is looking at it from a wholistic perspective.  The video is
correct in that people don't learn in either an auditory or kinesthetic
or visual way (there's also the mixed way), rather they take in
information in those ways.  Some people have a preference for one over
another in that process, even though, having a disability not
withstanding, everyone uses all three ways.  Kolb, Jung and others
would, I believe, disagree with the flat statement that there is no such
thing as learning styles.
  Chuck Killingsworth


On 8/30/2010 10:58 AM, Bill Goffe wrote:
>  Ruth said (in part):
>
>>  The trouble with using methods like previous grades ...
>  Certainly it is desirable to spread more capable students around, but as
>  many pointed out, doing so is fraught with difficulties. Sometime back
>  someone here suggested the following proxy: ask students if other students
>  ask them for help with Excel. It isn't perfect, but students think you'll
>  be doing Excel in the class and not screening for intellectual ability.
>  I've used it for some semesters and my teams seem reasonably balanced and
>  I did it in a transparent way.
>
>       - Bill
>
>  P.S. On learning styles, apparently there is a large literature that
>        pretty much says that they don't exist. I rather like this video on
>        this finding by a noted cognitive scientist:
>        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIv9rz2NTUk .
>
>
>