Abdallah, M.M.S. (2008). Multiple Ways to be Smart: Gardners Theory of Multiple Intelligence and its Educational Implication in English Teaching and Oral Communication. [On-line Submission]. Retrieved on February 17, 2009 from ERIC database.
This article was used for our Chapter 2 WikiText. It talks about Gardener's Multiple Intelligence Theory. I kept thinking how innovative Gardener was in thinking that all children are individuals. When you think about it, it is somewhat of a "duh" concept. Of course children, like all people are unique. But we seem to have set up our educational system, in general, to treat all children the same, not equal, but the same. And I really agree with expanding the definition of "intelligence" past the idea of academic production on a test. Some of us are good at somethings and not of others. I think about my car. I have no idea how to do anything but put gas in it, but my mechanic can do all sorts of things that I don't understand. I think we are on the right track though with expanding classroom activity to include differentiated activities and thinking of ways to set up all learners for success.
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I agree that the idea of using multiple intelligences in the classroom is kind of a "duh" concept. I really liked the car/mechanic analogy you used to describe how multiple intelligence theory can be used to differentiate instruction.
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