I teamed up with Allan Wood and later with Stephen Chapman to analyse the Multiple Intelligences theory by Howard Gardner.
I quite enjoyed this, Multiple intelligences is a very valid subject and I related to it well. it explained why I struggle with things when learning in just a text based manner, however when it comes to hands on, I understand it very well. This is why I like IT and Maths, hands on. The different areas of the MI are excellent in showing how different people have different strengths and for students to perform to their best different teaching styles must be implemented.
Potential for my future learners is great with colabrative wikis being a good tool promote improved attitudes cooperation and analysis between students. content like MI would also be a good exercise to help students understand their streingths and weaknesses.
The exercise of creating the wiki and using PMI is primarily constructivism with the way it is constructed, in determining the interesting points and the discussions around this show cognitivism and the availability to reference other web addresses and include diagrams etc, are connectivism traits, however we did not use any of these in this exercise.
The learning design of this exercise does have some diversity due to the cooperative nature of the project. So we could talk about the project in a number of ways and determine what was best to put forward.
The colaborative approach is not ideal for elearning if the colaberating students are not able to get togethor, having said that the use of the Wiki and the PMI method enables students to add points seperately and combine them, enabling colaboration do occur in a successful way.
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