Tamil Nadu - Tiruchi   

Multiple intelligences simplified

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EXPLAINING: Raji Ramakrishnan, resource person, handling the Newspaper In Education (NIE) session in Tiruchi on Monday. —

TIRUCHI: Intelligence is the word students keep hearing too often. Rarely do they get an opportunity to understand the theory of multiple intelligences as proposed by [American developmental psychologist] Howard Gardner. n understanding of the theory helps in accurately defining the concept of intelligence, and determining the scientific basis of the methods of measuring intelligence. Thanks to the session of The Hindu – Newspaper in Education, standard VII students of Campion Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School got an insight into the eight types of intelligence human beings have.

At the outset, resource person Raji Ramakrishnan sensitised students to The Hindu Panorama, the different sections of the national newspaper, before taking them through the components of intelligence: linguistic, logic-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal and intrapersonal. A little explanation on the professions and vocations associated with each type of intelligence followed.

For instance, linguistic intelligence helps one to shape a career in journalism, law etc.,; logic-mathematical in accounting, computer engineering; musical intelligence in composing instrument making and so on, Ms. Raji explained.

The purpose of explaining these aspects was to make them understand the interactions between different types of intelligence in an academic activity.

The subsequent activity pertained to the module on Weather Watch.

Students were asked to come out with terms related to weather such as thunder, fog and ice.

They were then asked to go through the weather report in The Hindu and note down the varying minimum and maximum temperatures in different cities.

The students had to draw a graph with the inputs. Ms. Raji concluded by pointing out how the combination of the spatial, logical and naturalist intelligences had strengthened their brain during the course of the activity.

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