An Analysis of the Educational Impact of Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences
High Leverage Practice #8: Go Visual. Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences.
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Transcript of High Leverage Practice #8: Go Visual. Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences.
Existentialist…Wondering People
… have the ability to be sensitive to and have the capacity for, conceptualizing or tackling deeper or larger questions about human existence, such as the meaning of life, why are we born, why do we die, what is consciousness, or how did we get here. They learn best through seeing the "big picture" of human existence by asking philosophical questions about the world.
Visual/Spatial Intelligence “Picture smart" people learn best visually and
tend to organize their thinking spatially. They like to think and create pictures. They are also drawn to information that is presented in a visual form.
…65 percent of the population consists of visual learners
Visual Tools for LearningResearch shows that communication is:
55% visual (gestures, body movement, posture, and environmental cues)
37% vocal (intensity and tone of voice, rate and volume of speech)
7% the actual message
Graphic/Advance Organizers
Graphic tools used by students to gather and absorb new information.
Prepared by teachers using drawing programs such as Inspiration or online resources
Webbing and MindmappingTopic of attention is
focused in a central image
Main themes of the subject radiate from the central image on branches
Branches hold an image/word printed on
the associated line Branches form an
interconnected structure.
Concept Map of the Water Cycle
A concept is an object or event given by a wordConcepts are ranked from more to least
inclusive (i.e., CMaps are hierarchical)Include “Linking Words”Two concepts connected by a linking word
makes a “Proposition”Propositions explain the relationship between
conceptsCross links can be added to show multiple
relationships among concepts.
Concept/Thinking Maps
• Designed to facilitate thinking • Challenges one's assumptions• Facilitates recognizing new patterns • Promotes making new cognitive connections • Helps to visualize the unknown• Can lead to reconceptualization
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
Hemingway