Multiple Intelligences - Howard Gardner

After I have read the Chat with Howard Gardner I would like to post something about that. Using MI theory allows students to build their own knowledge, also is useful to encourage students to develop metacognition and to make them conscious of their own thinking and learning processes. Also I would like to highlight the enormous value of the arts and the development of creativity in early Childhood Education.

Nowadays we live in a technological society that is changing every second with a large number of transformations. In this framework human development and creativity are inseparable. The progress of humanity is related to the creativity and the capacity of innovate and have new ideas. That is why the society, through education, has to empower and enable people to be innovative, critical, creative and thoughtful.

Experts recognize that the arts in early Childhood Education play an important role in the development of the creative capacity.

I attached a video of the British Ken Robinson, expert on developing creativity.

http://www.prisma.cat/doc/mediateca/intel/video_robinson.htm


I hope you enjoy it as much as I do

Hi there!! My name is Anna, and first of all I would like to mention that  when I studied at the primary school I didn’t like English class at all, but I don’t know how, I have changed my mind and now I enjoy learning English.  I have been living for 10 months in Abingdon, a little town near Oxford, and then 8 months more in Perth, Australia. Even I had spent lot of time in an English speaking countries, my English is not as fluent as I expected to be.  I think is because I’m quite shy.

I'm studying this language because one of my goals in life is to be a teacher in another country, so I think English can bring me this opportunity. For this reason I’m trying to read in English as much as I can because I think reading in English can help me to not forget the vocabulary that I already know and also I watch TV, serials, among others. The big problem is that not always I’ve got time to do it.

I’m really motivated to learn this language and In my opinion if I’m constant in my process of learning I will improve day by day and I will feel more comfortable than now.