Week 9: WHAT I LEARNED

Dear Jodi, Sherie, and all friends,

As Week 9 is coming to a closure, I reminisce the great deal of information that was enhanced throughout the week. To start with, I come upon more information concerning learning styles and have got to believe in the importance of this issue. Teachers have to be fully aware of the different learning styles of their students in order to accomplish a variety of teaching instructions that would cater to these styles, thus creating a convenient medium for learning. According to Howard, for instance, learners are classified into 8 categories according to their intelligences or learning styles, which are the following:

      1)  Verbal/Linguistic

2)      Logical/Mathematical

3)      Visual/Spatial

4)      Bodily/Kinesthetic

5)      Musical/Rhythmic

6)      Intrapersonal

7)      Interpersonal

8)      Naturalist

Learners of each category use technology in a different way according to their styles. Thanks to Hassan and Vijay, who designed tables including the whole ideas on how learners in each category may best use technology to learn in a more effective way and posted them on the wiki to be downloaded by us. Moreover, one of the important things about this week assignments was getting to know more about major educators like Howard and Fedler through watching some of their interviews and learning from their experiences. This link http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-howard-gardner-video allowed me to meet Howard talking on multiple intelligences. Besides, working on the styles makes the teachers’ jobs more challenging as they have to quiz the students, make sure of their dominant learning style, and modify the lesson plan to fit the styles of people through different ways.

Week 9, just like all the other weeks, was “crammed” with knowledge and experiences that are worth of recognition. 

I'll miss this course company a lot. 

Regards, 

Nihmat