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LEARNING STYLES, LEARNING STRATEGIES AND ICT
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (COLOMBIA)
About this paper:
Appears in: EDULEARN16 Proceedings
Publication year: 2016
Page: 3568 (abstract only)
ISBN: 978-84-608-8860-4
ISSN: 2340-1117
doi: 10.21125/edulearn.2016.1807
Conference name: 8th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
Dates: 4-6 July, 2016
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Abstract:
The popularization of personal computers has led to a trend toward miniaturization, low cost, portability, while the number of available applications and improvements in capacity and performance increases.

Similarly, mobile devices have yet incorporated faster everyday life, being present in all areas, including education. Now, in the classroom, students attend increasingly mobile devices although usually presented as distractors of activities could be included and utilized as a resource. In relation to the learning styles and mobile devices, different studies reviewed suggested among its conclusions response specific learning style is a different relationship with ICT.

When students know their learning styles and know how to use ICT as an essential part in the implementation of their learning strategies and teachers have identified the predominant style of learning in their students, it is possible to raise relations between both sides to improve the processes acquisition of knowledge.

This paper presents the results of an investigation of the relation between learning styles, learning strategies and ICT in a course rural eighth grade education. Identifying learning styles at an early stage through an inventory of styles of students allowed through a further instrument to identify the relationship with learning strategies and both concepts in relation to ICT.
Keywords:
Learning styles, learning strategies, ICT.