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In his ground-breaking book, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Howard Gardner describes seven (an now nine) specific types of intelligences. Tech4Learning’s software tools can help you easily engage your students multiple intelligences. Project work with Tech4Learning tools supports students most capable intelligence, while also requiring them to utilize their other intelligences as well.
“The single most powerful statement to come out of brain research in the last twenty five years is this: We are as different from one another on the inside of our heads as we appear to be different on the outside. Look around and see the infinite variety of human heads...know that on the inside such differences are even greater - what we know, how we learn, how we process information, what we remember and forget, and our strategies for functioning and cooperating.”
– R. Fulghum,
from It was on fire when I lay down on it |
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Project Work Supports Multiple Intelligences
The process of building technology projects, such as this example of a project about a historic event, can help you engage and strengthen student intelligences.
Discuss what it might have been like to live during a particular historic period, as a man, as a woman, as a child, or in different social classes (intrapersonal, existential). Discuss how the natural and social environment at that time contributed to the actions and feelings of different people (naturalist).
Divide students into teams and have each team choose a historic event to retell. The teams should assign roles to each student to recreate the event from a perspective not normally chosen (interpersonal). For example, what was it like to hear Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech as a child in the audience? Each team should complete an overview and storyboard and plan the steps they will need to take to finish their project (logical-mathematical). The team then creates sets, characters, and illustrations (visual-spatial), as well as and sound tracks (musical) to teach others about this historic event and how it affected different people. |
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