Multiple intelligences

As posted to the ITC Discussion Forum

Hi all,
I'm glad I'm not the only one worrying about all these activities accumulating.
I've attached my results below for all to psychoanalyse me. It is just a screen capture I cropped in MSPaint.
The quiz is available here. Click on the button up the top to "Take the test".



It seems pretty spot on in most areas. I'm a keen competitive runner and prefer locking my self in my room to study (I cringe at the thought of group assignments and team sports).
It also has me pinned as somewhat of an outdoor tree-hugging-hippie which is somewhat true. I would rather pay $23/night to camp for residential school than live it up on campus for $80/night!
So it looks like my strengths are solo, physical tasks, in the great outdoors. How about everyone else?

Regards,
Aidan Hobbs
GDLT Student - Secondary (Science & HPE)
Accredited Podiatrist

I will come back and complete the activity as others respond to the forum.



ACTIVITY

1. Review your results and compare them to those of others by posting them to the discussion forum.

2. How would you use this information to inform your learning design?

Felder and Solomon learning styles questionnaire

Results for: Aidan Hobbs


      ACT                          X                        REF
           11  9   7   5   3   1   1   3   5   7   9   11
                              <-- -->

      SEN      X                                            INT
           11  9   7   5   3   1   1   3   5   7   9   11
                              <-- -->

      VIS              X                                    VRB
           11  9   7   5   3   1   1   3   5   7   9   11
                              <-- -->

      SEQ                              X                    GLO
           11  9   7   5   3   1   1   3   5   7   9   11
                              <-- -->

• If your score on a scale is 1-3, you are fairly well balanced on the two dimensions of that scale.
• If your score on a scale is 5-7, you have a moderate preference for one dimension of the scale and will learn more easily in a teaching environment which favors that dimension.
• If your score on a scale is 9-11, you have a very strong preference for one dimension of the scale. You may have real difficulty learning in an environment which does not support that preference.

ACTIVITY:

1. What is your learning style? What sorts of learning experiences would suit you best with your learning style?

With regards to active and reflective learning, and sequential and global learning,  my result appears to be unremarkable/well balanced in terms of preference.
 
When comparing my preference of sensing vs. intuitive learning, there appears to be a strong trend towards sensing.
 
An implication of this may be that I require straight forward tasks to establish the key facts of learning areas (for example: lab work), through which I would more readily gain an understanding of a concept by observing how it is applied in the "real world".
 
There may be a slight trend in my results towards visual as opposed to verbal learning which may indicate I would learn more readily from visual aids such as:

• Diagrams, sketches, schematics, photographs, flow charts, or any other visual representation of course material that is predominantly verbal

2. In a traditional classroom of 25 students, how would you support the range of learning styles each lesson?

The most obvious answer in this instance would be to offer a broad range of activities to engage students on a variety of different levels. (eg: station rotation group work, provide verbal instructions, summary sheets, demonstrations etc.)
To ascertain any strong trends within a class (Eg: according to Felder and Solomon, many people are visual learners), one could perform a learning styles questionnaire or similar (and age appropriate) and subsequently design learning activities around these results.

3. With your current knowledge of ICT, how could your design and digital pedagogy support your learners better?

One of the benefits of ICT's is that they offer a broad range of communication methods to convey concepts to students. It is essentially the use of multimedia to teach to students with varying styles of learning. Once these learning styles are established, ICT's can be designed to focus on catering specifically to these learning styles to better support the learners needs.

4. What sorts of profiling questions would you be asking about your learners to ensure you cater for everyone's preferences?

Active vs reflective:
eg: What do you do with an instruction manuals?
a) Nothing - bin it and get to work
b) Read to establish a procedure and review progress

Seeing vs intuitive:
eg: when trying to establish how something works, do you:
a) take it apart and put it back together?
b) look it up on the Internet?

Visual vs verbal:
When meeting someone new, do you remember:
a) their face?
b) their what they do for a living?

Sequential vs global:
when learning a new unit of work, do you:
a) build a strong understanding of the topic as new information is introduced?
b) take in information but often have a "light bulb" moment towards the end of the course?

5. How does ICT support differences in learning styles?
Via the utilisation of multimedia.

Brilliant!

Yet another social networking tool to procrastinate from more important things...
Feel free to crack the whip on me if my blog is lacking in productive posting =]

Aidan