Reviewing Kolb model

After talking about VAK model, I want to take a look at Kolb model.

When studying Kolb model, I found it is a quite different guide of people’s learning behavior than VAK model. It summarized that people develop through acquisition, specialization and integration stages in order, like a lifelong process of personal development, while VAK model hadn’t talked about that.

In VAK model, Visual, auditory and kinesthetic style can be dominant way to learn at the same time, but in Kolb, learning styles are mutually exclusive, either do or watch, and either think or feel. 

So as we have learned, Kolb learning model have four-type learning styles.

   1. Diverging – watching and feeling

   2. Assimilating - watching and thinking

   3. Converging - doing and thinking

   4. Accommodating - doing and feeling

Now I want to make a try to apply it.

Before doing so, what products do Nintendo(任天堂) has? You may think of video game console ‘’Wii’’ at first as there are many ads about it. For me, I will immediately connect its classical game ‘‘ Super Mario Bros. ’’ (孖寶兄弟) in mind since I always played it when I was very small. I think most of you may have played it before, and I use it as my example to apply Kolb model. 

Diverging: I played the game in turn, with my brothers or friends (lose then pass others), so when I always lost I usually sat behind them, watching my brothers or friends playing. Also, I imagined different situations of different stages in mind, how I avoid being hit, to take less damage from enemies so that I can play better and therefore play longer. I developed the ways to play in mind based on imagination.

Assimilating: Sometimes I found some excellent players to watch how they can get high score and the way they use to pass stages. When watching them, I will think of the skills they use such as why they use this ways to go rather than another ways or the sequence of getting coins, brick and mushroom etc. Then I developing the strategies based on thinking. 

Converging: I enquired good players for some tips, for examples in one stage, where super mushrooms are (used to grow the role’s size (Mario)), where I can get more coins and bricks etc. And I would try the good tips.

Accommodating: I also use experiential approach such as the skill of jumping on top of enemies, jumping over obstacles and places. After playing for many times, and trying, experiencing and solving the challenges by my own, it is easier to play better gradually.

Do it bring back lots of good childhood memories?

You can find more information about Super Mario Bros. in Wikipedia

 Feel free to share your opinions

Frederick