Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model
Four dimensions of learner preference: Active/Reflective, Sensing/Intuitive, Visual/Verbal, Sequential/Global.
"Two equally smart engineers learn the same lecture in opposite orders."
What is Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model? Four dimensions of learner preference: Active/Reflective, Sensing/Intuitive, Visual/Verbal, Sequential/Global. Technical training design; pair-programming and mentoring matches.
Engineering education research at NC State.
Technical training design; pair-programming and mentoring matches.
Cover both poles on each dimension across a curriculum.
Use the model. Pick the move.
Four dimensions of learner preference: Active/Reflective, Sensing/Intuitive, Visual/Verbal, Sequential/Global. You've just seen this: Engineering education research at NC State. Which lever does the model recommend?
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- AI
- Negotiation
- Media
- Public Policy
- Relationships
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- People defend the status quo using the language of felder-silverman learning style model.
- Decisions cluster around the easiest narrative rather than the strongest evidence.
- New data changes the slide deck but not the decision.
- Anyone naming the pattern is treated as the problem.
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When you encounter Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model, your prefrontal cortex has to do extra work to override the automatic response — and that override budget is finite.
Executive control, planning, impulse override, working memory, System 2. First thing to go offline under stress, fatigue, or low blood sugar. Why your 4pm decisions are worse than your 9am ones.
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Your capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn faster than the environment changes.
Malcolm Knowles's principles of adult learning: self-direction, experience as resource, readiness, problem-centered orientation, intrinsic motivation.
Amishi Jha's research: attention is a finite, depletable, but trainable cognitive resource — short daily mindfulness measurably improves it.
Approach a situation as if you knew nothing.
Unusual or bizarre material is more memorable than common material.
Hierarchy of cognitive learning: Remember → Understand → Apply → Analyze → Evaluate → Create. Benjamin Bloom, 1956 (revised 2001).
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We treat AI as more humanlike than it is.
Decisions are constrained by available information, cognitive limits, and time.
The relationship between inputs and outputs changes.
Short-term restriction regimes drive yo-yo cycles and worsen long-term metabolic health.
Tools, notebooks, and trusted others are literally part of your cognitive system — not just aids to it.
Grade-driven admissions reward strategic course-picking over intellectual risk.
Opaque billing rules create lucrative work for administrators and revenue-cycle firms instead of care.
Train a smaller model to imitate a larger one.
Departments set ticket/arrest quotas as performance metrics, rewarding officers for volume rather than safety.
The brain rewards the gap between expectation and outcome.
Threats to status trigger the same neural alarm as physical threats.
Design rules without knowing where you'll land under them.