Learning Styles: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Ellen Chesser COLL100 American Public University Professor Monica Ludwig Learning Styles: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences In many learning institutions, some students succeed tremendously while others struggle and often times fail. Why is this? Very rarely is it because the student is incapable of comprehending the material but rather how the student is taught. Many educators are familiar with the theory of multiple intelligences, which is the theory that each student possesses a different learning style that closely relates to the way they are able to learn and understand information and how successful they will be in the academic field. The theory of multiple intelligences and what this process entails should be recognized and implemented in every school to improve the grades and success rates of all students.
The use of technology is affecting students especially in high school and college. According to Turkle, today’s college students have little experience with the right to privacy as they leave trails of everything they have done online, unlike previous generations who have worked hard to protect their privacy. In her article, Turkle also describes the use of online avatars as both a positive and negative image in children’s lives. Some children invest far too much time developing their online personality while role-playing offers a safe place in a world full of crime, terrorism, and drugs. As a consequence this retards their social growth
However, I would disagree with almost all of this article. I don’t understand how Gatto has changed or what he’s done to change his opinion of our educational system since he spent 30 years being an educator himself. Gatto gave good examples of how men like Ben Franklin succeeded, “unschooled...but not uneducated.” That’s great. I still believe that we need our schooling system for structure and as base for our futures. These men are a dime a dozen, not everyone is a prodigy waiting to be discovered, students need fundamentals to be most successful in their careers.
This section of the SAT can indeed be predicted, prepared, and mastered before you even step into the test site. 5 ^* k$ @3 |9 J' v% B& X }+ w The SAT Essay: The 80:20 Rule 3 {+ j% B+ h" U6 M1 R! H Let’s take a scientific approach to the SAT essay. Unlike the math section of the SAT, the verbal section is feared by many students because of the abundance of advanced vocabulary, grammar rules, unpredictable reading genres, and essay prompts.) ?)
His main argument on the article is to show his reader how’s the Internet is changing the way our mind works, how it remaps the neural circuitry and reprogram the memory of our brain (Carr 1). In making his argument, Carr uses many different strategies to strengthen it. He uses personal experience, authoritative quotations and analogy. Carr start off his article with a line from the sci-fi movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, a 1969 film that’s about man’s space quest to find some artifacts with the help of a supercomputer named Hal, to capture the attention of the intended audience because the movie is about how the supercomputer Hal controls the characters in the movie and how they become dependent of Hal and it greatly connects to his first claim. On the second paragraph, Carr claims “someone or something has been tinkering with his brain, remapping the neural circuitry and remapping the memory.
Rating education, strictly by the numbers is the wrong way to measure a process as complex as learning; therefore, standardized tests are unfair measurements of student’s intelligence and academic performance and should be reconsidered. A standardized test is a test that is administered and scored in a consistent or standard manner. A series of multiple choice questions are filled out by thousands of students each year and are graded using scanning machines. Who knew that such an important test would be graded by a machine? These given tests are designed in such a way that the questions, administering process, and scoring procedures are all consistent and are administered and scored in a standard manner.
Although standardized tests have been around for a very long time, there is still a mountain of controversy surrounding, if they are helpful or a hindrance to our elementary and secondary school students. Upon researching the positives and negatives of these types of tests, I have concluded that standardized tests have a negative effect on education. Standardized tests are developed by states independently; therefore, each states test is different from another’s. According to Webster’s dictionary the word, standardize means, to make standard or uniform. Let us look back in history to see how our leaders have tried to reform our educational structure.
Questions may be raised about assistance from parents or paid coaches if students submit an elegant autobiographical statement with their applications but score poorly on the proctored SAT essay, they said. Unknown to many students, colleges not only receive scores but also can examine the actual
A basic rule for brain based research is that maximum learning is achieved when current concepts are linked to prior knowledge (Hardiman, 2001). Students prior experiences, interests, and thought processes highly influence learning of current content area concepts in several ways. Students' attitudes and perceptions greatly influence how they learn. They tend to make strong distinctions based on the emotional sense of words (Doyle, 2011). For example, a student may not want to learn math due to a negative experience from a previous course.
Learning Styles based on Male and Female Evaristo Sanchez EOP 100, Section 7 Dr. Rabago November 9, 2012 Abstract In accord with research learning styles play a major role in our educational career. It impacts us in the way that we are able to understand and comprehend what it is that we are being taught and what we are obligated to learn whether if it is for self interest or for a better understanding. This paper will show some learning styles that are suitable for males and females. As we all know it males and females are hardly ever the same we don’t look the same we don’t talk the same we don’t even have the same learning styles but on occasions we do. This paper will also examine the learning styles of males and females in their fields of study, the impact it has on academic achievements, the effect it has in the hunter and gatherer mind also in diverse nations.