Learning Styles - a debunked but pervasive myth

Cathy Moore's "How to respond to Learning Style believers" is a useful summary of the main arguments surrounding the Learning Styles myth. She links to Tesia Marshik's TEDx talk, which I prefer (PREFER) as a first source of information about this. Marshik points to how we may differ in our abilities to recall our sensory memories, but she makes the point that most of what we learn is stored in terms of meaning, not in terms of raw memory. She provides a great chess player example and makes the point that we should reflect critically and not just accept the generally held view about Learning Styles.
However, I preferred (PREFERRED) to listen to Marshik's video, glancing at the odd slide she presented. She told it as a story (could that be why we like TED Talks so much?).
However, Moore's blog page with links and a well thought out written piece is more useful for researching and unpacking the issues.
All this does not mean that we should use one teaching style! Nor that we have just one type of learner in front of us in the class! Creating rich learning environments is what good practice is about, including being aware of what some preferences might be, but creating resources to accommodate different "learning styles" is just a waste of time.

Video and Audio - Taming Linear Learning

We learn in messy ways. We CAN learn by watching and listening to a (linear) presentation, live or on video. That is, concentrating on a several minutes or many minutes piece of teaching - and adapt our own learning strategies to it (note-taking, mind map, etc). However, that linear experience is sometimes difficult to recall. The construction that we have received is someone else's, not our own, and to learn it (that is, recall some of the ideas at least), we have to make it our own. We need to interact with it.
TED Talks are great sources of inspiration. But I often can recall a couple of the impact ideas and not much else. TED Talks are told as a story, they often have an intentional emotional impact, but the actual reasoning and important detail remains in the goo of our brains.
So, I welcome tedsketchnotes - a pictorial summary of TED Talks, produced by Stefani Bachetti. She plans a new image every weekday, give or take (information from the TED Blog).
Here is an example of the Daniel Pink talk on Motivation:

This is NOT the same as constructing your own learning BUT it allows a recall of the main ideas, breaking the linear nature of video (scan to find what you are looking for).
Thank you Stefani - great initiative which might spur others to do their own sketches to share.