Friday, June 3, 2011

Week #9: Learning Styles



This week we have read about multiple intelligences, learning styles and how technology can help when designing activities to address individual differences. As stated in "Technology and Multiple Intelligences", "by understanding a student's strength and weaknesses in each intelligence, we can help students become more successful. When multiple intelligences are integrated into the classroom, the idea about both teaching and learning changes.” Ideally, the teacher should address individual differences by providing an array of activities to facilitate learning. That’s when technology can facilitate in each intelligence area.

As I was writing the post for this week’s discussion, I realized I have designed a variety of activities which have addressed different needs.

Activities for the Verbal-Linguistic learner would be, for example, reading and interpreting web information, discussing and debating in discussion lists and forums.  An Advanced Grammar II student read the article


and posted a comment (comment 53):


Another student, Livia Costa, has read the article 

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/sony-and-epsilon-agree-to-testify-before-congress/?ref=technology

and also posted a comment.  


For the Interpersonal, the Webquest with collaborative elements I’ve come up with would be a good idea:

Blogs would help in the case of the Intrapersonal type. Examples of blogs my Advanced Writing II students have come up with are on the wiki:


Naturalist students in Junior Team have some involvement with plants at our school. As part of the lesson plan, they have to grow vegetables. There's a special place at school where we have the garden with the plants and their names. Check out our website:


Some more pictures on the Portuguese version page:

Overall, this course has been extremely helpful in that now I see I have been introduced to many useful tools that can address individual differences.  

Helô 

8 comments:

  1. Hi Helô,

    We read about MI and LS a lot, indeed. There are so many things we can change in our teaching, but taking one step at a time is the best approach, I think. You've given some amazing examples of how to address different inteligences and learning styles. Thank you.

    Eldin

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  2. Hello Helo,

    I liked your examples of MI and LS which show your great effort in applying this approach.

    Best wishes,
    Mariah

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  3. Hi Helo,

    What nice activities you have posted!!
    I am pretty sure that students will find the activities rewording and interesting.

    Marsi

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  4. Hello Helo
    I will start where you've ended. You put it well. Teachers' role is to address individual differences to be fair with students. The way that you illustrate Learning styles is really striking.

    Thank you very much

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  5. Hi Helô,

    You have really managed to compile an amazing list of activities for the different learning styles we have read about. Your students are definitely in safe hands as I am sure you are going to do even more now that you have learned more about this subject.
    Congrats on the high-quality of your work.
    Best,

    Gilmar

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  6. Hi Helo,

    I agree with Gilmar, you have created great activities for your students.
    Congatulations!

    Mariángel

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  7. Hi Helo,

    Wow! You've created so much for some very, very lucky students. You are amazing!

    Donna

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