Learner Centered Tools: Auditory Learners

Whether we are kinesthetic, auditory or visual learners, we all need to know how we best learn. There are different strategies and tips that help with this. We don’t need to flounder and struggle. When we can use specific strategies for our learning style then school and learning can be easier.

What are auditory children like? They need to hear or listen to a concept in order to understand it. Learning by rote and memorizing things is easier for them. Here are some characteristics of auditory learners:

• Are talkative and often talk to themselves
• Have difficulty being quiet
• Memorization is easier, and usually done by speaking out loud
• Can be distracted by background noise, esp if it is people talking
• Gain a greater understanding of concepts by talking about it
• Do better on tests if they can verbally answer the question
• Will whisper while reading without knowing they are doing it
• Will often hum or sing without realizing they are
• Like being read to

I have an earlier video on the auditory learning style. Check it out here.
And here are some ways to help auditory learners succeed.

TOOLS AND RESOURCES FOR AUDITORY LEARNERS

Here is a list and some links for different resources that I find helpful for auditory learners.

Audiobooks……Audible, Learning Ally (formerly reading for the blind and dyslexic)

Podcasts…..Podomatic, Buzzsprout, Podbean

NaturalReader….this tool converts text to mp3s to listen to

Digital recorders…..use your phone, get a small digital recorder

MeBooks (app on iPad) for younger children

Storyline Online…..A great website with books read by celebrities