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  • blackspanielgallery Jan 6, 2012 @ 4:25 pm | delete
    Nice lens
  • collettehrock Dec 8, 2011 @ 8:55 am | delete
    I found this article really interesting, I remember the subjects that I did really well in at school and the ones that I was really poor at and this gives me an insight into why
  • Dec 1, 2011 @ 1:53 pm | delete
    I think this lens is really useful for adult learners also. Great information here!
  • KarenHS2 Dec 4, 2011 @ 12:24 pm | delete
    When I learned about this with my youngest child, one of the best perks was that I discovered that I am also a right brained learner and it explained SO much.
  • SnoopyGirl1 Nov 23, 2011 @ 10:17 am | delete
    What a great lens! Thanks for sharing. I am still trying to figure out my visual spatial learner. LOL. I homeschool and have be really trying to figure out how to teach him in a way that he will stay engaged. I want to maximize his abilities and help him not to feel stupid. It is really challenging, but I know I will find my way as we go. I appreciate your resources. Thanks again.
  • KarenHS2 Nov 23, 2011 @ 11:26 am | delete
    I highly recommend this group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/homeschoolingcreatively for help figuring out how to engage right brainers. Takes a LOT of thinking outside of the box and learning how to "see" learning in a number of activities that others do not class as educational.
  • Ramkitten Aug 11, 2011 @ 2:19 pm | delete
    Interesting stuff and a very comprehensive lens on the subject. I guess I fall into the left-brain learner category, but I do see traits of the right-brained learner in myself, too. I don't have kids, but I am around small children quite a bit these days, so I'll be paying more attention to this when I'm with them. *Blessed by an angel on the Back to School Bus Trip*
  • ajgodinho Aug 10, 2011 @ 8:40 am | delete
    Wow, this lens is packed with great information with regards to the right-brained learner. Blessed! :)
  • lasertek May 17, 2011 @ 12:03 pm | delete
    nice links and ideas! great looking lens.

    my lens, Homeschooling 101: Guide to Free Curriculum and Other Resources.
  • Kelly R Nov 27, 2010 @ 1:05 pm | delete
    Great aricle!. I'm probably down the middle for the most part, but lean a little more into the right. My granddaughter is as well I would suspect. I wish there were more teacher's, and psychologists who understood this better, rather than make these kids think there 'something wrong with their brain'. My granddaughter actual was told this by a 'professional'. I think we need a 'Tea Party' movement for alternative learning styles.
  • delicada Nov 27, 2010 @ 8:42 am | delete
    Hi Karen,
    I am an Adult ADHDer, right brained, LD with an I.E.P. and your lens is one of the best accumulation of information that helps describe the difference between being right and left brained and WHY it is so important to understand learning styles and the effect that they have on a person.....LONG TERM. Your lens is filled with clear-cut information on this important subject. I am thrilled that I discovered it. Thank you so much for sharing.
  • Educator of Not-so-average kids, let me count the ways! Aug 22, 2010 @ 10:39 am | delete
    Your thoughtful insights, particularly clarifying the frequent confusion between learning modalities and styles, are helpful. Here's another article on Education Left vs Right Brained. PS, I clicked over from your posting on homeschool.com
  • KarenHS2 Aug 22, 2010 @ 11:41 am | delete
    Thank you for the great new article! I added it to the Time4Learning section of the lens. It really helps explain why T4L is great for many RBLers.
  • sirkeystone Jul 29, 2010 @ 5:44 pm | delete
    Very interesting perspective! I wish my teachers had realized this before they started saying I was useless. Which I may show them wrong yet, just took me 30 years to overcome being right brained and dyslexic, But I have been a writer from age 8, though I have yet to publish, yeah, something about quitting rather than failing...

    -Aric
  • KarenHS2 Jul 30, 2010 @ 11:28 am | delete
    This is a huge concern of mine. How many right brained learners are being "shut down" in the school system and their talents lost not only to themselves but to society? Please don't give up! It is possible to find ways to work around the traits that are preventing you from using your talents. Try checking out some of the books by Barbara Sher like It's Only Too Late if You Don't Start Now. Hmmm...idea for new module!
  • nightcats Jul 29, 2010 @ 2:49 pm | delete
    Fascinating lens. I took the test. I am 56% right brain. There is a lot of great information here that is good for us all to know.
  • KarenHS2 Jul 30, 2010 @ 11:24 am | delete
    So glad that you enjoyed the lens!
  • rlmodranski Jun 4, 2010 @ 11:25 pm | delete
    Great Lens!!! Thanks for sharing. I'm more right brained than left. i knew it before I took one of the tests, but they did confirm it. Good to meet you as a featured Giant today!
  • Cari_Kay May 24, 2010 @ 9:56 am | delete
    Thank you for recommending your lens on the homeschool forum. This is incredibly helpful. We are very interested in Time4Learning due to the Dyslexia.
  • KarenHS2 Jul 14, 2009 @ 10:49 am | delete
    Find out how you best "turn on" your right side while having to do left brain tasks - this could be music, tapping a finger, the right environment, etc. Find a way to break down the left brain tasks into chunks that are doable for you. You may find it more effective to study at night but listen to your own signals. You may want to put data that you have to memorize in a different form - chart, graph, recording on tape, etc - depending on what your best modality is (Right brainers can be visual, auditory or kinesthetic - how do you best remember stuff). Mind mapping techniques may be of help. Google it. Wow- this needs a whole new lens!
  • refinnaj nelson Jul 11, 2009 @ 8:58 am | in reply to KarenHS2 | delete
    i am an adult as a right brain learner in nursing school any advise
  • KarenHS2 May 6, 2009 @ 8:16 am | in reply to parthmisra009 | delete
    Thank you - so glad you liked it!
  • tandemonimom May 5, 2009 @ 6:48 pm | delete
    Very informative lens! One of my four kids is visual-spatial. He started reading at his 9th birthday, and by his 10th could read Harry Potter! Welcome to The Homeschooling Group!
  • Apr 26, 2009 @ 11:18 pm | delete
    I am a right brained learner and I totally love this lens! 5 stars from me
  • KarenHS2 Mar 26, 2009 @ 9:06 pm | in reply to Evelyn_Saenz | delete
    You are SO very welcome!
  • KarenHS2 Mar 26, 2009 @ 9:05 pm | in reply to Vacation-In-My-Head | delete
    It sure made a difference to me with my youngest. And I wish that I had had this information with my oldest child. So it delights me for you to find it now with your child!
  • Evelyn_Saenz Mar 26, 2009 @ 8:50 pm | delete
    This is just the information I need to start to understand my daughter . Thank you so much for writing this lens.
  • Vacation-In-My-Head Mar 26, 2009 @ 8:13 pm | delete
    Thank you so much for doing this lens. I actually found you from the homeschool.com forum. I have always loved the fact that my daughter actually notices the smallest things so much more than others, but after reading one of the links you have here about Highly Sensitive Children, it has made somethings that she does really make sense. This will help me as I continue to homeschool her. She just turned 4, but I now have a better idea on how to proceed with some of her learning. 5*'s and I am favoriting so that I can refer back to you.

    Great lens again thank you!!
  • KarenHS2 Mar 22, 2009 @ 12:33 pm | in reply to Rachel Schmitt | delete
    I am also very right brained and can't see that silly dancer the "right brained" way. Definitely not a test to take seriously. BTW, don't miss seeing Cindy Gaddis at the upcoming www.LovetoLearnConference.com in Charlotte. Her talks on right brained learners are SO helpful!! I can't even begin to say how much all this has helped me.
  • Rachel Schmitt Mar 22, 2009 @ 12:00 pm | delete
    I could not for the life of me see the dancer going anti-clockwise. I tried and tried. I took the test and discovered I am an 18 on the scale- very right brained! I am left handed and have heard left handers are right brained but I didn't know if it was true and what it meant. I'm so excited to see what my kids are. Even as I'm reading the examples of left vs. right brained differences I can see hints of what my kids may be. It explains alot. Thank you!!!!!
  • KarenHS2 Feb 8, 2009 @ 8:50 am | in reply to Kirsten | delete
    Wow - you really made my day with your comment! I am SO glad that the lens helped you in such a way. Perhaps I will "see" you on the homeschoolingcreatively list, that is one of my favorite resources while homeschooling a right brained child.
  • Kirsten Feb 7, 2009 @ 7:01 pm | delete
    Thank you so much for your web-site. I now understand my son and know how to move on. I feel like I have been in a dark room and opened a door into sunlight.
    He is aged 6 and last year I insisted that his school stop teaching him because the teaching was making him sad (his words). Only since then has he started to enjoy himself. I now realise I have to get him out of there. Thank you, thank you.
  • IrmaDoo Dec 6, 2008 @ 12:11 am | delete
    I think you did an excellent job with your lens. I want to recommend a book I read that may help right-brained adults or parents with r-b children: "Organizing from the right side of the brain", by Lee Silber. This is a book to help right-brainers to be organized in a world of left-brainers.
    5 stars for your lens!
  • AtHomeSource Aug 27, 2008 @ 10:51 pm | delete
    Thanks for the great lens. I'm reading Left Brained Children in a Right Brained World. Wow! what an eye opener! My child is totally right brained - now I can FINALLY help him.
    The problem now is he does everything to avoid learning about letters and numbers. It's a sore subject for him and now I truly understand why. It's going to be a slow process but I know I'm on the right path.
    PS. love the Animal School video, EVERYONE should watch it. It's not working on your lens though. The only place I know of to see it is here:
    http://www.raisingsmallsouls.com/wp-content/themes/179/aschool012008.html

    God bless!
  • RedSportNiac Jul 19, 2008 @ 9:57 pm | delete
    Great lens. You got a lot of useful resources on this topics. Thanks for your time in making it.
  • HerbalRemedies Jun 1, 2008 @ 1:14 pm | delete
    Hi,
    Very nice lense on you've put together.
    You've obviously put a lot of time and care into it, thank you!
    How to Treat Attention Deficit Disorder in Teens Naturally.
  • KarenMcLaughlin Apr 7, 2008 @ 7:14 pm | delete
    Really enjoyed your lens! I made one of my own (Celebrating Visual Spatial Learners), then found yours! Both my boys are extremely visual spatial. I'm glad we unschool because I don't think public school meets the needs of VSLs at all! I have added this lens to my lensroll.
  • CLB Feb 29, 2008 @ 3:01 pm | delete
    Well, I rated and lensrolled your lens but can't find how to add it to my favorites, darn it! :) I really love what you did here, very complete, lots of info.
  • KarenHS2 Jan 23, 2008 @ 9:49 am | delete
    Jimmie - If you do decide to make a lens, please let me know and I will lensroll it. You may have a unique perspective, sometimes more is better! I am glad that you liked mine.
  • Jimmie Jan 23, 2008 @ 6:28 am | delete
    Wow! What a great lens! My daughter is very right-brained or visual-spatial. I was going to make a lens on this. But yours is excellent. I don't think I can do better. :-) BlessingS!
  • poutine Dec 3, 2007 @ 1:09 pm | delete
    The test said I was right-brain. But I see myself more as a balanced brain with a tendency to the right.

    poutine
  • Pierce_This_2 Sep 14, 2007 @ 11:48 am | delete
    That explains much about how I think. Thanks for the info. ! How to measure a belly button ring
  • KarenHS2 Sep 14, 2007 @ 11:02 am | delete
    Yes, Sonia, I wish I could find a free online test that I thought was more accurate. I keep looking. In the meantime, that is the best one I have found! But do take the results with a couple of grains of salt!!
  • sonia_simone Sep 13, 2007 @ 10:47 pm | delete
    Great lens! The test says I'm flat-out left-brained, but I suspect I'm actually more balanced than that.
  • Susan52 Aug 29, 2007 @ 1:58 pm | delete
    Karen, I took the test and I'm balanced-brained and the test results say I am a visual learner. I certainly knew that part! Very interesting subject, of which I have much to learn.
    Susan
  • groovyoldlady Aug 24, 2007 @ 6:35 am | delete
    This is a MARVELOUS lens! I will be honored to include in the Happy at Home group!

    Haha...my security word is "nerdgiggle"!
  • catch-cheating Aug 18, 2007 @ 8:15 am | delete
    great , useful inforomation, high five
  • Coral_Milburn_Curtis Aug 17, 2007 @ 12:27 am | delete
    Excellent lens. I have featured it on my lens, You Gifted and Talented Child. www.squidoo.com/educademy.
    Best wishes
    Coral
  • ronpass Aug 16, 2007 @ 7:33 pm | delete
    Know I know why I have to play music to stick with left-brained tasks and why my son used to walk around while he answered test revision questions. My new lens is for right-brained learners:
    Digital Storytelling
  • KarenHS2 Aug 14, 2007 @ 7:21 am | delete
    I think we are born with a dominant side but we can learn to adapt. Right brained learners can "turn on" their right side through music, etc, to be able to do left brain tasks. Which is why some kids need to draw or walk around while listening to a story being read.
  • Susan52 Aug 13, 2007 @ 9:37 pm | delete
    Wow, I didn't know Meg had a book! I didn't know a whole lot of this information! I think I need to figure myself out first, then maybe my kids will make more sense to me. (I think my brain might bounce back and forth. Hmm. Can your brain side change? I have some studying to do!)
    Susan

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