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Where Education News Always Shines June 13, 2008 Volume VII

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Interpersonal Intelligences has the Power to Change

The Interpersonal Intelligence involves people working together to accomplish a task or goal. This intelligence enables us as people to form understanding and find ways to communicate with others realizing differences in attitude, motivations, opinions, skills, and even temperaments.

A person with well developed interpersonal intelligences will be able to form and maintain social relationships. For example, this person will be able to adapt their behavior to match different environments or groups to form feedback from others. Additionally, they will be able understand and acknowledge the feelings, thoughts, and lifestyle of others to influence the opinions or actions of others. In an effective verbal or nonverbal way to organize others for a common cause. Some people are able to deal with other people’s personality, while some are unable to cope with other people’s personality.

Through this intelligence, there is the power to change others, but not to say that you can change them and not cause an indifference. The power to change a person is usually given through advice or opinions usually implemented by the person that

would benefit from the advice. If the outcome of the advice is good, then the level of respect is rewarded to the friend or group member.

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Multiple Intelligences Theory is one of the best things to happen to education. Through this theory, the infusion of hands-on assignments, technology projects, and even the use of music to help enhance the learning environment is a big step to gain a student’s attention. This type of learning probably

would not exist without the help of Gardener’s theory. The closer that education gets to mastering integration of his intelligences, the more school’s learning environments will become state of the art and up to date for the 21st century learners. continued on p.3

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21st Century Classroom The classroom of the future is the latest anti-obesity concept project from Mayo Clinic. In this classroom, students are moving as a part of their lessons and they all have “standing” desks and a host of sophisticated learning technologies. Dr. Levine, who directs the Active Life research team, wants to target the large percent of children in the United States that are overweight. It is anticipated that half the children in America are likely to have weight problems during their lifetimes. This continues to be a growing culprit caused by poor quality diet and lack of activity at school and at home.

The purpose of this classroom is to resolve inactivity in children and to focus on changing the past classroom environments to create a new and improved 21st century classroom design. Some of the innovations of this new technology are: Video streamed “podcasting” as a teaching aid, “Learn and Move” bays, novel earpiece that measures physical activity of the student, Personalized laptop computers, Personalized white boards for each student, and vertical magnetic work spaces that double as projections screens. America on the Move plans to raise awareness of this concept. If the concepts are proven, Mayo Clinic will consider

expanding this experimental environment to local elementary schools. As pictured above.

Teaching With Aid of TechnologyTeachers across the metro Atlanta area recently took a Kennesaw State University class to gain experience of today’s technology in the classroom. The whiteboard will the navigator, working like a giant computer screen. Teachers are being trained to use digital pens to brig up the internet, graph draw, ad do all the teaching they would usually have done on their chalkboard and more. this environment will be stocked with digital cameras, science probes, graphing calculators, document cameras, DVD players, and laptop carts. This typical 21st century classroom will contain tables for collaboration, one projector, and one electric white board.

This training is relevant to teachers because the tools being utilized match what they’re learning out in the real world. For example, a student will come to school and remove ipod, cellphone, etc only to use those same tools and make learning relevant.

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Classroom integrated with technology of today’s 21st century schools. This will probably be the look of classroom across the US by 2015.

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W!ter Cornercontinued from p.1

This theory has many benefits if pursued seriously in the classroom setting. For example, every student will learn differently and the well rounded teacher who integrates many intelligences into their lessons will be able to effectively connect with and challenge their students. A small percentage of teachers will not integrate intelligences but focus on developing a students strong

areas, which to me makes the multiple intelligences theory seem ineffective.

In today’s classrooms, if every teacher can develop their ability to present an integrated lesson, our country’s level of intelligence will rise to be one of the top producers.

Teaching Tech cont. 2 These 21st century skills teach students to use self directed thinking and information skills. Also training enhances the role of the teacher to being a content-area expert to one who designs curriculum that facilities learning. Most important of all the pedagogy of the 21st century learning is about engaging learners to be willing to learn.

The price tag to equip a classroom with all this new equipment, it would cost about $35000 for all the necessary equipment.

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Parents vs. Multiple Intelligence TheoryParents recently attended a seminar where they were taught skills that seemed to increase the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) of their children. The children scored higher on IQ tests and other measures of cognitive ability after parents implemented new behaviors at home. Parents did not think that any reputable psychologist would believe that a person’s measured IQ tells the whole story of intelligence, instead, they used it as an useful tool to predict success in certain activities. Researcher Stephen Gould was highly critical of IQ and believed that it was wrong to measure people by a narrow range of skills and then consider that measurement a determinant

of how intelligent they are in any categories.

The biggest problem that parents had with multiple intelligences theory was the breaking up the students into math and language groups. For instance, Multiple Intelligence has been known to support the idea stating if you are high at math, then you will be low at Language arts. The parents conducted research and found this idea to be a big negative to their learner’s future. Both skills are positively correlated to show if you are good at one skill, then you would be good at the other. The best tests do not depend on the person’s prior knowledge and is not at all obvious that there is any such thing as single general intelligence.

Debate of Human Intelligences The debate of human intelligences goes back to the basics of whether nature or nurture define a true intelligence. Charles Spearman, a British psychologist studied the existence of a general intelligence (factor g),which is used to quantify what is common to the scores of all intelligences. Spearman’s studies found that schoolchildren’s grades across seemingly unrelated subjects were positively correlated, and proposed that these correlations reflected the influence of a dominant factor, termed g. Since its introduction, the factor g has been the cornerstone of psychometric models of intelligence and was set forth to downplay the importance of environmental influences that determine Intelligence Quotient (IQ). Presently, tests are misused to label

certain ethic and racial groups as superior or inferior based on the belief that tests measure genetically based, non-modifiable aspects of human performance.

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