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[aboxofchocolates]

[Konglishman]

[D.D.]

What areas of a persons brain they use most has a huge effect on their life. As a chiropractor I study the effects of trauma on the nervous system and how to help people in recovering from ill effects. This put me on a path where I got into how the mind works. I like the model of right brain vs left brain to simplify a very complicated concept.

Even when I try to explain it broken down into left vs right people look at me like some alien talking. It is quite a simple idea that brain function effects people's lives. Studying this lead me into Esl in China and Korea as I wanted to experiment with teaching techniques and how they worked on different brain parts. I now hope to go teach in a chiropractic school and apply the things Ilearned to patient education.

I have noticed that in education and society that the right brain is treated with little respect. The left brain traits are given the respect that theright brain deserves.


They divided up my 1st grade students into 7 levels and the realy left brained students got put in the top class and the righties in the bottom class. No matter how much I tried to say that the righties got burned nobody wanted to listen.

My sister was branded as stupid at a young age as she was very right brained and she just finished her CGA this year after years of shaking off the feeling of being stupid.

People who can use many parts of the brain are more advanced than people who use mostly one side. Education in Korea is about making left brained people. That is why they are not very creative.

Again it is an easy way to explain a very complicated process, but education should be looking at it.

[hockeyguy109]

[Lunar Groove Gardener]

The theory of multiple intelligences was developed in 1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University. It suggests that the traditional notion of intelligence, based on I.Q. testing, is far too limited. Instead, Dr. Gardner proposes eight different intelligences to account for a broader range of human potential in children and adults. These intelligences are:

Linguistic intelligence ("word smart"):

Logical-mathematical intelligence ("number/reasoning smart")

Spatial intelligence ("picture smart")

Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence ("body smart")

Musical intelligence ("music smart")

Interpersonal intelligence ("people smart")

Intrapersonal intelligence ("self smart")

Naturalist intelligence ("nature smart")

[JMO]

[Rusty Shackleford]

This is cool, too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ysbZ_j2xi0

A whole lecture series in elementary physics.

[Underwaterbob]

[aboxofchocolates]

[aboxofchocolates]

[andrewchon]

Is the teacher's name 'Isabelle'?

[aboxofchocolates]

[Lunar Groove Gardener]

Right on.
I like the idea of applying Multiple Intelligence Theories to presenting the same material in numerous ways, with a conscious eye towards which type of learner one form of presentation or another may inspire and connect with.

Eventually such an approach may create an overlap whereby students are exposed to so many methods of taking in and grasping information that they develop other aspects of their own "intelligence", improving their confidence and ability to learn a broader range of things through any number of methods.
Not everyone can do everything at the same level, but we can all benefit from learning in ways which stimulate all of the varied categories of human endeavor.
I've met quite a few very accomplished musicians that seemed to be much more mathematical than artistic...that has always been an interesting overlap to me, because other musicians are purely intuitive and approach mastery of their art from an entirely different perspective, and perhaps create music of a wholly different nature than their more mathematical peers.