This is our second last week in Webskills. We have been learning
different new approaches in teaching and learning until now. This week we
discussed on different learning styles. Primarily, our focus was how to address
on the different ways students preferred to take in and process information, for
example; by seeing and hearing, reflecting and acting, reasoning logically and
intuitively, analyzing and visualizing.
In order to make the
class effective and draw students’ attention and to address the preference of
the students, the incorporation of the teaching tools has become mandatory. Otherwise,
they (students) might be bored or inattentive in class, which might lead into
poor performance of the students. Next, you cannot overlook the omnipotence and
omnipresence of technology in classes across the globe. Nevertheless, the
random use of the technology will be counterproductive. Our choice of the
technology should be in commensurate with the interest, demand and need of the
students. We should not use the technology simply because it is new and
interesting.
I think the Howard Gardner’s nine types of intelligence and
the students’ preference of the technology according to their intelligence help
sorting out the technology applicable to maximize the performance of the
students.
The types of intelligence and the tools helpful for the different types of intelligence are as follows:
- verbal/linguistic intelligence: blogs, PDFs files, email and word processing programs.
- visual/spatial intelligence: clip arts, drawing tools, photo sharing websites, online comics.
- Bodily/kinesthetic intelligence: motion simulation games, use of keyboards, mouse or joysticks.
- musical/rhythmic intelligence: digital musical instruments, mp3s, CDs.
- interpersonal intelligence: chats, social networks, forums.
- intrapersonal intelligence: blogs and multimedia portfolios.
- naturalistic intelligence: webquests, videos and blogs about nature and environment.
- existentialist intelligence: forums, chats or emails
Sitaram
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