Barrier of Individual Learning Styles Microprocessors and networked technologies may truly realize the potential to provide individualized instruction and support unique learning preferences where earlier educational technologies fell short. Lessons learned from early experiences with educational technology and research in learning clearly demonstrate that technology can support individual learning styles. Many students experience the complex audio and visual stimuli, collaboration, and competition made possible by video games that may be displayed on a television set, a handheld device, or even a computer connected to the Internet. In How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, the result of 30 years of research, John Bransford, Ann Brown and Rodney Cockling identify five themes that have changed concepts of learning. These emerged from a review of social psychology, cognitive psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, developmental research, teaching and learning, and educational technology. 4 A brief description of each theme follows. Memory and structure of knowledge. Memory is more than a series of simple associations. Learners develop coherent structures of information and meaning. Analysis of problem solving and reasoning. Research on expert learners has demonstrated how learners acquire problem-solving skills and utilize strategies to solve problems. Clear differences separate how novices and experts approach and solve problems. Early foundations. Research on infants and young children illustrates the relationship between predispositions for learning and the methods and strategies they use to organize information, make inferences, and solve problems. Metacognitive processes and self-regulatory capabilities. Learning is situational and individuals can be taught to regulate their own behaviors. Cultural experience and community participation. Learning is a social endeavor and a child's learning community, whether within or outside of the home, shapes learning practices long before a child enters school. In addition to changes in the understanding of learning, this publication identifies ways technology can be used to support teaching and learning. A review of research demonstrates that technology can bring exciting curricula based on real-world problems into the classroom provide scaffolds and tools to enhance learning give students and teachers more opportunities for feedback, reflection, and revision build local and global communities that include teachers, administrators, students, parents, practicing scientists, and other interested people expand opportunities for teacher learning 5