Week 9: Final Project and Multiple Intelligence and Learning Style Technology

My reflection about Techonology and Learning Styles Technology

Hello, friends

This week has been so much stress for me, because I focused my attention in my Final Project; the experience was interesting. I only needed to follow the check list to finish it.

The discussion about MI (multiple intelligences) and (LS) Learning styles were topics that I have read, to link them with technology was a little difficult, but I really like the idea to enhance the process mixing them, I had to read a lot to establish a difference between MI and LS.

http://www.creativelearningcentre.com/downloads/LS%20vs%20MI%20TEX9_p8_9.pdf

The difference between Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligence are very pronounced:

"An intelligence is the ability to solve problems, or to create products, that are valued within one or more cultural settings."Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind, 1993. So MI must be ‘OUTPUT’ function of information intake, knowledge, skills. But learning styles can be defined as way human beings prefer to concentrated on store and remember new information or knowledge.

I knew about Multiple Intelligence and Learning Styles through my formation as a teacher at the university and the CRADLE Project of the Ministry of Education in my country; however it was interesting refresh my knowledge and enhances it with technology.

Howard Gardner first identified and introduced to us seven different kinds of intelligence in Frames of Mind.

• Linguistic intelligence: sensitivity to the meaning and order of words.

• Logical-mathematical intelligence: ability in mathematics and other complex logical systems.

• Musical intelligence: the ability to understand and create music. Musicians, composers and dancers show a heightened musical intelligence.

• Spatial intelligence: the ability to "think in pictures," to perceive the visual world accurately, and recreate (or alter) it in the mind or on paper. Spatial intelligence is highly developed in artists, architects, designers and sculptors.

• Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence: the ability to use one's body in a skilled way, for self-expression or toward a goal. Mimes, dancers, basketball players, and actors are among those who display bodily-kinesthetic intelligence.

• Interpersonal intelligence: an ability to perceive and understand other individuals -- their moods, desires, and motivations. Political and religious leaders, skilled parents and teachers, and therapists use this intelligence.

• Intrapersonal intelligence: an understanding of one's own emotions. Some novelists and or counselors use their own experience to guide others.

And after he identified and the naturalist intelligence which creates observation notebooks of changing in the local or global environment, pets, parks, etc. Use All Your Smarts: Multiple Intelligences for Diverse Library Learners

Using technology enhances with the multiple intelligences and style of learning, students can store, sort, and cross-reference information, notes, bibliographies, and create multimedia reports to make an adventure of learning, because they will give it final polish. Some of the most popular word processing programs include Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, and Ami Pro for Windows. http://www.casacanada.com/chart.html

Teachers can be able to develop their own courseware, create databases linking documents, present preprogrammed slide presentations from videodiscs, and enrich their courses with a wealth of the technology, help them to develop language skills with a grater fluency and a more effective style, using these skills in communicating and collaborating with distant students on a variety of projects, through an increasing number of electronic networks.

Genny