In this week, we introduce Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. Please read this before you come to class this week:
Remember that the survey is not a great way to determine the strength of your intelligences. If you don’t remember why, please watch the 3rd video below.
Also, this document might help you to understand a little better about activities that use various intelligences.
This week, we discuss Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences. You’ll need to be familiar with the 8 different kinds of intelligence before you come to class. Here is the big idea – we don’t just think of different topics (like math or soccer). We actually think differently – we can think mathematically or we can think physically or we can think visually (and so on). We explore this idea in class by giving you some time to develop some of your different intelligences.
I’ve posted an online lecture, courtesy of my good friend. Nevin Liddy – please watch it before you come to class. It includes important information that we’ll need to know before we have class. It was a little long (18 minutes), so I recorded it again and broke it into four parts for your convenience. By the way… if you would rather listen to this as an mp3 file for any reason, you can do that by using various websites.
Use this page to take notes on while you watch the video:
Before you come to class, I need you to be familiar with the 8 intelligences’ names and basic characteristics. To help you focus on the important parts (for this week’s class), you can do the following things:
1. Read this: a short summary of the intelligences (.pdf file).
2. See if you can remember the 8 intelligences by memory. (You might want to draw a simple picture for each intelligence).
3. See if you can give examples of activities for each intelligence.
Here is some additional (optional!!!) reading material.
