Multiple Intelligences

In the last video (Multimedia 5.1 - The Inclusive Classroom) you watched, did you notice teachers treating each child as an individual and responding to each student's particular learning style? Pause for a minute and reflect on how children approach learning in your class. Does each one of your pupils approach learning differently? Perhaps your classes are big and you are in a hurry to complete the syllabus, which gives you little time to observe how each child approaches his or her learning. But having an appreciation of learning styles can help a teacher assist their pupils far more effectively than not knowing much about them. Refer to your previous units to refresh your memory on learning styles.
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List down the three types of learning styles that are most obvious. Describe them in one sentence for each style.



Observations of learning styles led Howard Gardner, Professor of Education at Harvard to propose the Theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) in the early 1980s. This theory recognises that learning can take place in many different forms and Prof. Gardner initially proposed seven types of intelligences which were later expanded to nine. These nine intelligences are:

  1. Linguistic intelligence ("word smart")
  2. Logical-mathematical intelligence ("number/reasoning smart")
  3. Spatial intelligence ("picture smart")
  4. Bodily-Kinaesthetic intelligence ("body smart")
  5. Musical intelligence ("music smart")
  6. Interpersonal intelligence ("people smart")
  7. Intrapersonal intelligence ("self smart")
  8. Naturalist intelligence ("nature smart")
  9. Existential intelligence

Prof. Gardner reasoned that the traditional view that intelligence based on IQ tests was much too narrow as it relied on the cultural or traditional norms of linguistic, mathematical and logic by which western society measured abilities. A new, more holistic measurement of a person's capabilities would look beyond a person's literary and numerical abilities. More and more educators tend to lean towards Gardner's theories as they approach the education of especially gifted children.

IDevice Icon Activity 5.9

Please read Chapter 9 'Multiple intelligences and learning styles' of the prescribed open textbook Emerging Perspective on Learning, Teaching and Technology' by Orey et al on Multiple Intelligence. This chapter examines in some detail both the theory and their implications for teaching and learning as well as role for technologies in managing MI in classrooms. After reading Chapter 9 write in your own words the traits of each one of the intelligences and the appropriate technologies that can be used to support learners with such traits. One example has been done for you.

Source: http://www.scribd.com/doc/75856400/Emerging-Perspectives-on-Learning-Teaching-And-Technology

Trait

Description

Technologies

1. Linguistic intelligence

 

 

2. Logical-mathematical intelligence

These learners think conceptually in logical and numerical patterns making connections between pieces of information. Always curious about the world around them, these learners ask lots of questions and like to do experiments.

  • Problem solving software
  • Computer Aided design programs
  • Strategy game software
  • Graphing calculators
  • Multimedia authoring programs
  • Spreadsheet programs
3. Spatial intelligence

 

 

4. Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence

 

 

5. Musical intelligence

 

 

6. Interpersonal intelligence

 

 

7. Intrapersonal intelligence

 

 

8. Naturalist intelligence

 

 

9. Existential intelligence

 

 


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