The Visual Learner
The visual learner uses pictures and images to learn. He or she uses imagery to remember and store information. The visual learner has a keen interest in learning how to type fast because he or she needs to take notes in class. The laptop, especially the new Macintosh, with Corel Draw, is a handy tool for a visual learner. Visual learners love Microsoft One Note because it is a very useful tool for taking notes and adding pictures throughout.
For a visual learner, “seeing is believing” and a lecture without graphics, motion pictures and sketching is a torture. Therefore, when a lecture does not have graphics, the visual learner resorts to other means of viewing images. This is usually unrelated to the lecture and causes the student to become distracted.
TIP: Visual learners should colour code their notes. Microsoft One Note allows for different colour highlighting and referencing.
At the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), visual learners can usually be found on MSN or writing and replying to messages on Facebook. Warnings from their professors does not stop them from being on MSN or Facebook. It is in the nature of a visual learner to multitask, and habits are not easily changed. The visual learner student will download movies, podcasts, and news items using their laptop. This is a way of multitasking and keeping busy during a lecture.
Visual learners decorate their laptops with flashy and colourful screen savers. They have creative backgrounds, and some even create collages of pictures of their friends for their background. The laptop is everything to a visual learner.
