Thursday, December 4, 2014
Week 9: Learning Styles
This week I learned about Richard Felder's "Multiple Intelligences", and how to take advantage of new technologies to satisfy the needs of different learning styles. I knew about the existence of a variety of intelligences, but I had never heard or read about Felder before.
As mentioned in the article "An interview with the father of multiple intelligences", it is true that adapting teaching practices to deal with different cognitive capacities can be really daunting, especially if we have 30-35 students in a classroom. However, since we live in the era of new digital media and the internet, it is much easier to individualize our students' learing styles.
A good way to know about our students' intelligence types is to have them complete a questionnaire at the beginning of the school year. While reading information about this concept, I came across two websites that fulfill this purpose: The VARK Questionnaire and Multiple Intelligences Self Assessment (Edutopia). School year in my country is almost finished now, but I'm definitely going to apply these in the first class next year!
Lore from Argentina
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Hi Lore!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the great resources for assessing our students' learning styles!
I just wanted to suggest asking your students in the first class to do a homework of introducing themselves through different projects (posters, videos, music, sports, writing etc). That way you can use the collected projects as a means of assessing your students' preferences in learninf styles.
Have a great weekend!
Best,
Gordana from Serbia
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ReplyDeleteHello Lore,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the Learning Styles Questionnaires that can be used as an assessment tool for our students.
I liked your idea of using these to determine the preferred learning styles of your students, right at the beginning of the school year. I am sure it is going to help you to come up with better ideas regarding creating a balance between the learning and teaching style.
Have a great weekend!
Sharmila, India