Multiple Modalities

Learning modalities are sometimes referred to as learning styles, yet they are not entirely the same. Learning modalities are the way students use their senses in the learning process to acquire new skills: kinesthetic, visual, auditory, and tactile.

Tools

Read, Write, and Think suggests that students need to talk about their learning, create visual representations, utilize new media, and write in many modes.


Graphic defining the four learning modalities.