Multiple Intelligences: an overview

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Multiple Intelligencesan overview

• Rob deMallac
• http//userwww/rob/
• ITEC 700

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Gardners Multiple Intelligences

• Linguistic
• Logical-Mathematical
• Musical
• Bodily-Kinesthetic
• Spatial
• Interpersonal
• Intrapersonal
• Naturalistic (1999)
• (Spiritual)
• (Existential)

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So where does M.I. fit in?

• Not a tool or rubric for implementing instruction
  like ADDIE
• Not an analysis of the degrees of comprehension
  like Blooms taxonomy
• A counter-proposal to the implicit claims of the
  Stanford-Binet IQ test

• Instead of producing a theory (and a book) that
  simply catalogued things that people could excel
  in, I was proposing an expansion of the term
  intelligence so that it would encompass many
  capacities that had been considered outside its
  scope.

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What is an intelligence?

• A biopsychological potential that is our by
  virtue of our species membership." (Gardner,
  1999, p.82)

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What is an intelligence?

• "Purposive adaptation to, shaping of, and
  selection of real-world environments relevant to
  one's life" (Sternberg, 1984, p.271)

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History

• Montessori Method, Montessori (1912)
• Piaget
• Summerhill A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
  (1960)
• Freedom to Learn, Rogers (1969)
• Frames of Mind, Gardner (1983)
• Emotional Intelligence, Goleman (1997)
• Intelligence Reframed, Gardner (1999)

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Processes of Identifying an Intelligence (Pt.1)

• The potential of isolation by brain damage
• An evolutionary history and evolutionary
  plausibility
• An identifiable core operation or set of
  operations
• Succeptibility to encoding in a symbol system

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Processes of Identifying an Intelligence (Pt.2)

• A distinct developmental history, along with a
  definable set of expert end-state performances
• The existence of idiot savants, prodigies, and
  other exceptional people.
• Support from experimental psychological tasks.
• Support from psychometric findings.

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Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
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Key Difference?

• Adapting to student diversity rather than
  imposing structured responses.

INDIVIDUALLY CONFIGURED EDUCATION THE KEY
EDUCATIONAL IMPERATIVE OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
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Barriers to adoption

• Extraordinary degree of training and commitment
  on part of teachers
• Socrates Know Thyself vs. cultural
  perpetuation

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Examples

• Spectrum Classroom (Gardner, 1999, p.136)
• Key Learning Community
• gardnerschool.org (Vancouver, WA)

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Links

• http//www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/w1-
  resources.html
• http//www.phxelem.k12.az.us/technology_and_learni
  ng/on-line_learning/Anchors_aweigh/web_resources.h
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• http//web.utk.edu/lre4life/milinks.htm
• http//userwww.sfsu.edu/rob/700/MI.ppt