Week 1: Learning Styles and Intelligences 2/4

Engagement Activity 2: Multiple Intelligences

TED talk - "we get educated out of creativity", yet it will be vital for children's future careers to be creative. Our current education system (particularly for children) is based on behaviourist teaching "in the future it wont serve us".

Multiple intelligence test
This test is based on Gardner's 8 areas of intelligence. The wording suited the young target market.

Note: Prior to taking the test I can not see where I would fit. Perhaps naturalistic followed by visual/spatial.

The results show my strongest areas of intelligences as intrapersonal and visual/spatial, followed by linguistic naturalistic and logical. I am not good with people or music.
I like music, but I am not skilled at it, nor do I use it to help me learn. In fact music puts me off of learning. I feel akward in social situations (although others say they don't notice) and I find confrontation difficult.

The learning area I see this test to be most useful is in grouping people together. Either combining similarly minded people, who can get along on a project task, or a mix of people who form a balanced team.
From the multiple intelligences point of view I can see that you could combine a number of intelligences into a learning activity. For example a group of students who are particularly kinaestheric may need activities that include movement while linguistically minded students will preffer words. A spelling/reading activity could be made more effective for these two sets of students by placing words on the floor and having students follow a path of words by jumping between them and say them out loud. Musical and visual/spatial could easily be combined into this activity too.

The main point of multiple intelligences is that intelligence can be considered on more scales than just academic smarts.

So how would I use this in an ITC context? I am not sure yet. I can picture class room based applications but when thinking of myself as a uni student I find it harder....
I think I just need more exposure to the tools that are available.
I imagine that there would be programs that could make quizzes that move words about on a screen and you have to click on the correct word as it is moving. Something fun, like the old 'whack a mole' but more dynamic. Perhaps this will satisfy the kinisthetic? I wonder how the kinasthetic respond to touch screens. Hmmm, how can I get the 'eye-move' responsive games and tilt screen games into learning.....