Multiple Intelligences Test

Howard Gardner created the multiple intelligences test in 1975 based on the multiple intelligences that he categorised into eight different intelligences which learners abilities were shown. The test shows a learners best learning style. The multiple test theory has a website online where you can take the test The following is my results of the test, and you can see at the top the website to go to if you wish to take the test yourself:

This test says that I am mainly a musical learner (musical smart) and I am also a kinesthetic learner (body smart). I think that these results are very very accurate to my particular learning style. I am quite musical; I play three different instruments and keeping up with new and popular music is of quite high priority in my life. I love sports! I think that if it were possible to learn everything through active activities and sports I would be the new Einstein =)

The multiple intelligences test as an E-tool in an educational environment does present many benefits and could possible assist both learners and teachers towards success. It is an online tool and therefore the students will firstly being learning skills in navigating the Internet and experimenting with tools. The test is chiefly beneficial for students because it highlights their strengths and weaknesses and even acts as a set of information for them to be able to describe themselves as a learner; this test is something useful that they could 'carry' with them as learners and share with new teachers.

The test is very useful for teachers to have for all of their students as it does tell them exactly how each student best learns and also how they most likely will not learn at all. The multiple intellegince test results is something that a teacher could add to each students profile (which every teacher should have for each student).

I know that when I am a teacher I will try to get each student to complete the test so that I can look into each students profile and ensure that I am catering to all of their needs!

Week Two: E-leearning design principles: Mobile Phone Wiki

Reflecting: This weeks task was to add to the mobile phones wiki which is related to de Bono's six thinking hats. The six thinking hats is something that I was vaguely familiar with beforehand but this task still seemed daunting to me. How am I supposed to relate de Bono's genius to what I think about mobile phones in education?

I attempted to begin the task multiple times, however I was still struggling with finalising my ideas and opinions. After attending class on Thursday everything became more clear and I grasped a better understanding of what was expected in the task. In class, we had discussions on mobile phones in education with the use of de Bono's six thinking hats; everyone voiced their ideas and opinions helping me so much. I was able to complete the wiki task. I now agree with the edited work of Ewing, Lowrie and Higgs (2010, p. 13) when they say that 'communication is a dynamic process that individuals use to exchange ideas, relate experience, make sense of situations or convey meaning...' In this particular situation, I do not believe that I would have adequately completed the task without communicating with other learning managers and networking ideas. The wiki that we have all been contributing to is a great example of our networking and sharing of ideas in this course.

So far in this course I have achieved so much, I have learnt the importance of keeping up with technology and ICT's, especially as a LM who will be teaching learners of the 21st century. I have gained understandings of E tools and how they are related to education. As I am going through my journey I can relate ideas, theories and the use of ICT's to how they will be useful and beneficial in my classroom.

Using mobile phones, for example, we came up with multiple advantages and disadvantages to using mobile phones in education. If mobile phones were to be included into classrooms it would transform learning, and they could, in some ways, support and facilitate learning, especially in certain activities and curriculum tasks. I believe that if mobile phones were to be used in education there would act as ways to enhance learners learning! 

References 

Ewing, R, Lowrie, T & Higgs, J (eds.) 2010, Teaching and communicating: rethinking professional

experiences, Oxford University Press, Australia.

Week 1: Learning theory and e-learning

This week I looked at the learning theory of behaviourism. I believe that the beginning minutes of the above YouTube clip provides an in depth definition and reasoning into the topic of behaviourism and certain behaviourist approaches.

In this week I was firstly directed to the site http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/behaviour.htm , which gives a general overview of what behaviourism is and the different ways that it is studied and experimented; the website also gives an explicit idea of what behaviourism is in education or in a classroom. The site mainly gives the impression that behaviourism in education is 'the dominance of the teacher and the modification of behaviour'.

Jessica Collins and I wrote into the wiki page http://fahe11001gladstone.wikispaces.com/Behaviourism, on the topic of behaviourism and we expressed our ideas. It was my first time to use or create a wiki and at first I found the experience very daunting. There was so much that I was unsure of...Do I need to log in? Do I just press edit or do I create a new entry??? Adding to a wiki on a topic seemed as though it was an experience aimed at exploration; working in pairs gave the opportunity for argument and the exchange of ideas (collaboration).   

We used the positives, minus, and interests (PMI) method to jot down some key points of behaviourism.   
   
We found that some positives include that it teaches the students positive efficacy, it allows the learners to modify their behaviour in accordance to consequences that the teacher enforces, and that if positive behaviour is recognised other students will react and copy.
Some minus things of behaviourism is that if the teacher is not consistent (dominant) the students will not feel the need to be consistent in their behaviours, if a teacher is only concerned with bad behaviour then the amount of good behaviour demonstrated will decrease, and if a teacher does not follow through on rewards then the students will lose trust.

Interesting things about the learning theory of behaviourism is that rewards motivate students, difficult students can transform into exemplary students, and that actions and consequences can create classroom expectations. 
From all of these points you can see that behaviourist strategies are very much reliant on the teacher.


Using the PMI scaffolding method to deconstruct information and classify it was nice and easy for me, it allowed me to put my thoughts (collaborated with Jess) into an easy to understand format. Reflecting now, I think that i will make use of the PMI scaffolding method in my classroom on prac days=)


A wiki entry is new to me and after using it for the first time, I believe that it could be a very useful tool in education and in my classroom. It is a new and different networking system! 


Lastly, I would like to recommend that you watch the YouTube clip 'The Big Bang Theory - Sheldon Trains Penny' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_mIEnnlF4), which is very good, and comical example of a simple behaviourist approach. 

Hey: About Me

Hey, My name is Bianca Jane Turner, I am studying the Bachelor of Learning Management (BLM, secondary) at Central Queensland University (CQU). I am majoring in Health and Phjysical Education and my minor is English.

In this course, FAHE11001: Managing E-learning, I am beginning with very little knowledge of all of the different technologies and communication networks that have developed and unfortunately these technologies have now exceeded my 'capabiltites'; I do not have a great deal of basic computer / technical skills. 

I am one of very few people that I know of who do not have a facebook, myspace, or twitter profile, and I am challenging myself to develop my knowledge of the different technologies available in this century. Hopefully by the end of my journey I will be 'up-to-date' with the different information and communications technology.