"a good teacher uses different instructional approaches and considers the audience, the topic, and the environment before deciding what activities are best for a learning scenario."
Learning and processing styles differ for just about everyone. Well, there is no estimation: everybody absorbs knowledge in different ways. Period. As a teacher, realizing this fact is incredibly important, along with knowing how to reach each and every student in the classroom in an effective manner. This week's topic deals with using different social tools, folksonomies, and concept maps for critical thinking in students and lay persons.
There are so many different ways to approach education and teaching students of any age. Everyone learns visually, audibly, and kinesthetically; the extent to how much learning takes place in each of these areas depends on multiple intelligences:
- Interpersonal intelligence: understanding basic social skills and how to interact with others.
- Verbal-linguistic intelligences: possessing a great ability to understand languages, to comprehend readings, and to write.
- Logical-mathematical intelligences: thinking rationally and systematically; using routine and processes to assess problems in order to find solutions.
- Intrapersonal intelligence: understanding oneself, emotions, and feelings and being able to project that understanding into the real world.
- Musical intelligence: exceptional skill with rhythm, beat, pitch, tone, notes, etc...
Of course, reaching each of these intelligences for retention of information is tricky. Though teachers for thousands of years have been surviving without today's technology, current teachers are blessed enough to have access to high-tech resources and to supplement learning and teaching with these resources. Below is a concept map that organizes five different social tools into educational tools: YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, Delicious, and Wikis.
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