MI Chapter 12

Name: Tyler Duran, Sam Brisette, Rebecca McIntire, Ryan Michaud
Date: 10/29/2007
Book Title: Multiple Intelligences
Chapter: Twelve

Write a brief abstract about the chapter.
Chapter twelve focused on multiple intelligences and cognitive skills. It offered tips and tricks to enhance students in areas of weak intelligence by developing their strengths, such as using binary code to remember how to spell. It also continued the discussion of Bloom's taxonomy as it relates to MI theory.

How did you connect to the reading and briefly reflect on your thoughts.
While chapter twelve was fairly informative it often times felt that it lacked substance and felt a little weak in terms of their suggestions for cognitive tips and tricks. The binary example is perfect in these terms because it seems highly unlikely that a student would benefit from such an activity. I would tend to think that further memorization would confuse a student who is struggling to remember how to spell specific words. It also provided a great example of how sometimes teachers do not elicit learning from their students: over 70% of college students that had taken a high school physics course thought that there were two forces in motion whena ball was thrown into the air. This was an excellent point, however the advice from the text did not provide a real adequate solution to this problem.