Our personal approach into multiple intelligences.

We treated last week the multiple intelligences and got introduced with new terminologies regarding this classification. There were a variety of intelligences referring to the lecture. We went into details when explaining the intelligences and their peculiarities.

In principle intelligences compressed the competence we have into different fields and also our interests regarding areas of studies that can be learned in an autodidact way or someone else can explicitly provide us throughout different means, like motivating us into these areas and facilitating the learning in such a way that can be encouraging and stimulating for the brain and easily catchy to be dealt with.

However, let me share with you my personal thought regarding intelligence as a concept.

When I think about intelligence, I do visualize ’big heads’ like those representatives of the great inventions that have reached a lot in their lives and also left a trace in history and their predecessors. However though, intelligence for me is not restricted only into them, intelligence refers to other people as well that have reached some success in their live and worked really hard to reach it. Intelligent is also a baby who does something in addition to other babies in the same age, which impresses their parents and so on. In regards with the multiple intelligences though, we were taught that it focuses the intelligence and also interests into a main focus by leaving into some ‘dark’ let’s say, some of the other fields that cause a less interest into our profession or in our area of study.

Personally, I know that my interests are focused on the below intelligences;

1.       Linguistic

2.       Mathematical/logical intelligences

3.       Musical and rhythmic

4.       Interpersonal

5.       Existential.

Thanks to Gardner we are now able to decipher among them and also to get to know them better.

Regarding logical or mathematical interests, I do believe that it is a very essential for getting to know things from other perspectives in order to allow us to be more critical while solving problems, calculating and putting logic on first hand.

Simultaneously it is combined with the existential focus since I prefer being critical and referring with scrutiny by leaving the superficial view aside.

Furthermore, I do consider myself relied on the interpersonal area with interests in other people and getting to know their world by molding a tight relationship in leadership or while getting along with others. As a counterpart I would say that my intelligence is really focused considerably into linguistic and musical since I do believe also they are related to one another and that is why we are having a strong bond and passion when concerning our area of study.

They are closely related to teaching since we cannot do or stand alone without having those skills. What teaching represents is a great deal of learning each and every day more which would strengthen our skills, concentrate them into the most preferred and appealing ones by making us talented. This is something we should enhance in our future, motivating our students, letting them know that they can succeed on what appears with more interest into their eyes and by doing such we are completing our duty, as a good teacher, motivator and supporter of successful and talented generation.

All in all I think that the real virtue is containing this hidden competence and admitting the gift we have to learn and attain more, which is something incredible. Promoting  good vibes and counting on their power, teachers and students can lead a perfect and fruitful relation on making things better by accomplishing the real mission.

The first assignment.

 

Impact of technology in education, our expectations on the course.

 

Once I heard we are going to have a course in technology, the first thing that crossed my mind left me a good taste and motivation that at least we are having something that we would all need in the future.

However, we already have some feedback and experience from our lives, in regards of technology. It could be everyday usage, it could be the work we were employed on, it could be a conference we attended, a webinar regarding this field, it could be our sibling’s experience and sharing, and so on. Technology is surrounding us each and every day in our lives as an inseparable part of it.

Look at us, how we are living right now, we do wake up and chat with our dear ones, friends, relatives and by every second that passes, we become depended on internet, waiting for our teacher to organize the meeting so we can attend the class and so on. Unfortunately, or fortunately call it as you want, we can barely leave our gadgets for a second without checking or getting updated. However though, we are aware of the fact that the more we know regarding technology, more confident we feel in this area, and this makes us eager to acquire more and more. This is what makes me feel good regarding this course, facing a new area that we have never touched during these bachelor years and approaching and integrating into new territories, which are of high interest for me. Thus, my expectations on this course are always the highest.

We have to consider the other part of the mirror though, the usage of this as a tool into education and teaching in the future. Becoming a teacher means to surpass lots of difficulties, one of the which is our approach into digitalization, and modern means of transmitting information. Additionally, we are dealing with situations where technology can be a very good or misleading tool depending on the issues we are encountering. Being realistic, indeed advantages are clear, but disadvantages still may never resemble one to the other. That is why I can still place a huge question mark into technology. We have forgot the beautiful feeling of touching or smelling the printed books, the energy we use while marking our names into the covers with the brand-new pen, the physical vibe in the class ambience, the chalk and the blackboard, even the hours in commute and breathless times attempting to catch the seminar classes, engrained in our memories. That is what reality brings, emotions experienced differently, the nice touch and peculiarity it offers instead of laziness, and effortless feelings.

To conclude with, I do believe that technology should be used because after all it does help to make things easier, but up to a certain point, without losing the touch of what reality serves us. Once we know how to properly use it, we would be able to use it when necessary by picking its golden fruits.