Technology and Multiple Intelligences

According to Howard Gardner, there are many different ways students can demonstrate their ability. There are multiple intelligences: verbal (linguistic), logical (mathematical), visual (spatial), bodily (kinesthetic), musical (rhythmic), interpersonal, and the naturalist. This shows how different learning styles learners have.

I believe teaching and learning should be encouraged where various approaches to learning are facilitated. As a person whose learning style is visual and kinesthetic, I wished I had realized my learning style and had tried to learn mathematics in visual and kinesthetic ways. I just thought that technology may be a great contributor in order to maximize an interdisciplinary approach in teaching and learning. After learning how to use i-tunes, Audacity, and Photohop elements, I realized that I had just experienced various learning styles to understand the concepts. For example, in order to edit music that had been saved in i-tunes, I used Audacity to change pitch and tempo. In this process, not only could I listen to the music, I was also able to visualize the music. Besides, there was a mathematical aspect when I changed the tempo by numbers and of course, it was hands-on exercise (kinesthetic)! Technology resources seems to me an essential tool to support multiple intelligences.