Chapter 13- MI

I liked how this chapter addressed the usefulness of computers and multiple intelligences. This is really important to us as future teachers since computers and technology is going to be so important to our way of teaching, and such a huge part of our classroom. Not only are computers a great and fast tool for us to use, it also allows students to use each and every intelligence. I loved the chart in the book. It really shows all the different choices we can give to our student to help them use their strengths, and preferences in intelligence to learn best. I liked the point the book made about culture diversity and how every culture uses all eight intelligences. I think this is an important fact that we should tell our students to help them understand how these ways of learning are a part human ways of life, and not just this one school. I also think it is very important to make sure students see and use all eight intelligence and see how they relate to the real world. As was mentioned in class, there are so many drop outs and undecided majors in college because student don’t feel school is teaching them anything relevant to their lives or what they want to do in the future. They also don’t know what they want to do, probably because they never had enough experience of how the eight intelligences relate to real jobs. I hope that by using the eight intelligences in my classroom constantly, I will not only help students see their strengths and weaknesses but also see how they can apply the intelligences out in the real world. Perhaps at the beginning of each week I will have the students reflect in their journals how a certain career would use a certain intelligence each day, like architect and the special intelligence. This will help students a lot!