Is listening to a book ‘cheating?’

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1. Without reading Willingham's post, I'd say it's NOT cheating.

People learn and communicate through a combination of three modalities in varying intensities: visual, auditory, and/or kinesthetic (tactile). How we take in information and process it is a function of degrees in one or more of those methods. Some people learn better by listening. My boss is almost solely visual, and can barely comprehend something that's read aloud to her. In thirty+ years of teaching both kids and adults, I've always striven to use all three methods in everything I teach to ensure maximum comprehension, retention and application. Just did a senior-level workshop at my company about this very topic to improve some communication miscues.