1. During my conference, I was given the advice to not look into the correlation between personalities and learning styles. I was also given websites like "opposing viewpoints" and "JSTOR" to look for more information on my topic. I was asked the question "are you focusing on learning styles from the viewpoint of the student or teaching styles from the viewpoint of the teacher?" This cleared up my topic more and made me realize I was focusing on the student's learning methods. I was also advised to maybe pick either gender OR age to study because I have 4 methods of learning that I will also be researching.
2. The most helpful piece of advice was to focus on the student's learning styles instead of the teachers teaching methods. This advice help me put my idea in perspective and realize who I really wanted to research.
3. The least helpful piece of advice was to focus on just one method of learning, which I put on the table as an option. I questioned my advice and realized that I needed to look at all the learning styles because without having other styles to compare one to, my paper won't make sense.
4. I thought the conference was very beneficial because they posed questions that I hadn't asked myself yet which made my topic more clear in my head. They also gave me ideas on what to research so I wasn't researching too much information. They helped my narrow down my search engine also.
5. All of my questions got answered.
6. I plan on looking into the ages and genders of people and what learning styles they prefer. I ruled out using personality because it's too hard to indicate someones personality. My main goal is telling my readers about the different learning styles and finding the correlation between age and gender for the different methods.
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