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

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/sports/soccer/fifa-elections.html?_r=2

and posted a comment (comment 53):

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/sports/soccer/fifa-elections.html?permid=53#comment53

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:

http://www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=99988 

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:

https://sites.google.com/site/writing2wiki2011/

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:

http://www.alumni.org.br/English/Site/children.htm

Some more pictures on the Portuguese version page:

 
http://www.alumni.org.br/juniorTeam.htm

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