Learning Styles

I worked out a quiz at http://www.edutopia.org/mi-quiz on "learning styles to find out mine. The following was the result.

Results

1. Linguistic - 83% Logical-Mathematical - 75% Visual-Spatial - 83% Intrapersonal - 63% Interpersonal - 88% Musical - 94% Bodily-Kinesthetic - 67% Naturalistic - 42%

This week was a wonderful one. I happened to learn more about different learning styles. Technology can address these different learning styles. Actually, I came to know about Multiple Intelligences in 2008 when I was doing M.Phil. It was an interesting topic for me then. Later when I joined as assistant professor in English in 2009, I conducted a workshop on "Multiple Resources for Multiple Intelligences" for school teachers. I demonstrated how different resources like news paper, drama, cartoon stripes, cartons, video, stories, etc can be used to scaffold different learning styles. That was really a wonderful experience.
Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence theory states that each learner has different intelligences : verbal, Logical, Musical, Visual, Kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Naturalist, and Existential. A language teacher needs to find out his/her learners' intelligences. Their learning style depends on them. So it is necessary. A teacher should try to address different intelligences by including a variety of activities in a single lesson.

I am also eager to learn more about Multiple Intelligences.

M. S. Xavier Pradheep Singh