Gardener has theorized that people do not have “good” or “bad” memories in general, but rather they have varying degrees of memory in different intelligences. People may have a great bodily-kinesthetic memory and can easily remember a dance, but they might have a poor visual memory and cannot keep different works of art straight. Another cognitive skill that MI can help strengthen is problem solving. Thinking through problems and issues in different intelligences can be very helpful: people who are stronger spatial learners can visualize a problem rather than write a mathematical equation to help solve it. One large issue all educators face today is clearing up students’, no matter how old, misconceptions; often people firmly believe in the wrong answer because they were never taught otherwise in a way that made sense to them. The last application of cognitive skills in relation to MI is Bloom’s taxonomy working along side MI to take learning from simply understanding something in one intelligence, to being able to apply, explain, analyze, and evaluate it as well. As a teacher, I will need to use MI not just for teaching understanding, but for teaching problem solving and higher order thinking.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
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