Educational Benefits of Visual Stimulation Visual stimulation engages the use of visual aids like presentations, videos etc. to deliver educational content more effectively. It enhances the learning process of students as visuals help to reinforce the material being taught. Learning through visual stimulation is a great way of learning as it facilitates a learner’s interest in a certain subject, makes the learning process more fulfilling, and retains the student’s interest for longer time span.

1. Use of Visuals in
Education
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2. Why Are Visuals Important in
Education?
Visuals correspond to a profound human tendency of visualizing
their thoughts. Once we understand the importance of visuals, we
should be excited to take steps to use these when we are teaching.

3. Importance of Visuals in Education
There are two main reasons why it is important to actually demonstrate the children what
is being taught:
Visuals assist learning.
Visuals make learning more fun and permanent.

4. Visuals Clarify the Material Being
Taught

5. In normal day-to-day living we learn:
1
2
Sensory
Stimulation
Theory
3% through taste
3% through smell
3
6% through touch
4
13% through hearing
5
75% through seeing

6. Although we use all our senses to absorb and retain the
world, it appears that sight is the sense where most of
our learning comes from. This proves that the most
effective way to elaborate and bring understanding to
what is being taught is to actually show the children.

7. Visuals Make Learning More Permanent:

8. Typically in 3 days we will remember
Audio
Visual
Audio-Visual
65%
10%
35%

9. This tells us that if-as educators and teachers-we
want to effectively have the children remember the
lesson taught, we need to show as well as tell them.

10. Types of Learners:
There are basically 3 types of learners:
I.Auditory Learners
II.Visual Learners
III.Kinesthetic Learners

11. 1. Auditory Learners
11% of people learn by hearing
Auditory learners succeed when instructions are read aloud or information is presented
and requested verbally.

12. 1. Visual Learners
83% of people learn by seeing
Visual learners benefit from presentations, charts & graphs, pictures, films, and written
directions.

13. 3. Kinesthetic Learners
6% of people learn by moving, doing, touching
Kinesthetic Learners acquire information fastest when participating in a science
laboratory, skits, field trip, dance, role playing or other activities.

14. Visual aids undoubtedly correspond to a profound human
tendency to materialize their thoughts in the form of
graphic or sonorous images. This also corresponds to the
tendency of giving their thoughts a concrete frame of
reference.
Plato took care to set the scenery of his dialogues for
reasons! He used concrete words and concrete
comparisons (for example, the cave) as foundations for his
most abstract ideas.

15. References:
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/resources/theories.html
http://brainrules.net/
http://www.wla.org/assets/Conference/Handouts/new-trends%20in%20learning_docs.pdf
http://school.familyeducation.com/intelligence/teaching-methods/38519.html

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