In a message dated 2/24/2000 8:19:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, EvMick@aol.com
writes:
<< Same-Same all the various "intellegences"...... >>
If one is a teacher, one need not poop on the phrase "multiple intelligence".
One finds it useful to reach different children with different sensory
inputs. Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligence was work and
research done for teachers and educators -- for child development
specialists, not for rocket makers, or for software engineers, nay nor for
truck drivers. Nay nor for PC users, or NT either.
It has it's uses in teaching, and it works wonders when applied.
Here is how:
A child who is not ordinarily reachable through visual aids or reading may
respond well to physical touch, or to oral teaching. A child who is graceful
at dance or sports may be taught mathematics through movement and placement,
etc.
It is a tool, but people have made a big too-do about whether it's OK to
believe it.
I could give a good goddamn. If it helps children learn, it's good.
If one has a vested bogged down in the need of being "right" one may find the
idea of other types of intelligence threatening, since in most nonlinear
thought processes you may not find a "right" answer. Only in logic can one
have certainty, so therefore some people claim it is the only one true
intelligence.
Who cares? Go be right, I'll go spread love to kids ... bye bye
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