Left-brained learners

• lots of reading,
• writing,
• assignments involving reasoning and analyzing,
• attention to detail
• quantitative methods,
• linear, organized approach to lessons, and
• a syllabus showing what will happen when.

Our educational system seems to favor a left-brain style, with an exception being activities that involve creativity.

Using both left-brain and right-brain activities is a way to reach both kinds of learners. For example:

• Draw illustrations on the whiteboard, or ask students to draw them.
• Show video clips and discuss them afterwards.
• Use web-based learning since the web has lots of pictures and using it is not sequential.
• Use a chat room for brainstorming ideas for projects, then use asynchronous communication to choose ideas and develop them further.
• Assign students a final product or project that has a creative element as well as an analytical element.