How can exploration of the Internet support a variety of learning styles and multiple intelligences?
As teachers, our goal is to provide our students with varied learning experiences that will improve their current areas of strengths while challenging them to improve their abilities in weaker areas. Through a working knowledge of our students’ learning styles and “intelligences,” we are better able to tailor our lessons and activities to expand our students’ strengths. Our students have different “intelligences,” or areas of strengths, and tend to be drawn to project and subject choices that utilize areas of strength. As teachers, we must create situations where they may also develop the less preferred, usually weaker, intelligences. Fundamental to this challenge is an understanding of Gardener’s Multiple Intelligences. With a working knowledge of these intelligences, we can develop dynamic projects which give students an opportunity to explore and expand their strengths in each of these intelligences. Multiple Intelligences The lesson . . . We all have been surprised when the academi
