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The purpose of learning modalities is to create an inclusive and conducive learning environment which motivates learners. Students have different kinds of intellectual strengths which are very important in how they acquire things.
The challenge is that many students are not motivated to learn. Motivating learners is one of the most important tasks of the teacher. Students who are not motivated will not learn effectively. They won’t retain information, they won’t participate and some of them may even become disruptive. Some teachers claim that motivating students is not their job and they think that a teacher’s job is to know the content and to deliver it, and the student must take responsibility for his or her learning and find his or her own motivation.
A great teacher recognizes that learner's motivation is necessary for success in learning. These teachers should use different strategies to motivate learners to learn thus improving their motivation.
Through this unit, you will acquire how you can apply the complex theory of multiple intelligences to motivate learners (Gardner’s complex theory of multiple intelligences).
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The unit encompasses the following topics:
- Introduction to learning modalities
- Role of Gardner’s Theory of multiple intelligences to motivate learners
- Strategies to motivate learners to learn
Before starting this unit, make sure you have completed the Pre-test. Click on the tool below to access it
Introduction to learning modalities (60 minutes)
What teaching methods and activities suit different learning style?
Activity Instructions
Teachers should believe that every student can learn. They use methods of differentiation, adapting what they teach, how they teach it, and how they assess. When they create a variety of lessons, they reach a wide range of students who learn differently. But how do they make sure all their students learn? One of the things to consider when differentiating is learning modalities.
We focus on four main learning modalities according to Fleming (1995). These learning modalities are the following:
- Visual
- Auditory
- Kinesthetic
- Tactile
Students see and hear information, move about their learning environment and interact with learning materials
Click each of the following links and learn more about learning modalities
Learning
Styles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embided=n0&v=qvxZj6VCdUA: Learning
Styles & Multiple Intelligences: Theory Integration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embided=no&v=FVg9n0l0Gf0 RTL
Learning Modalities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embided=no&v=L__Buv1ZHI4
SIM School Simulation. http://rwanda.simschool.org/Assignment
Use the Sim Rwanda simulation on SimSchool and interact with students to practice, identifying which students perform best under which conditions.
Share your experience with colleagues in a discussion forum
Instructions:
Write a short report and answer to the following questions. Click on topic summary below to access questions
Share your report with colleagues in the Forum
Role of Gardner’s Theory of multiple intelligences to motivate learners (60 minutes)
How can Gardner’s Theory of multiple intelligences be used to motivate learners in your respective subjects supported by ICT?
Activity instructions
The theory of multiple intelligences was developed in 1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University. Dr. Gardner proposed different intelligences to account for a broader range of human potential in children and adults. He explained that people have different kinds of intellectual strengths and these strengths are important in how people learn things. One way to motivate learners to learn is to incorporate multiple intelligences into the classroom environment.
Click on the links below for more about Gardner's complex theory of multiple intelligences
Differentiated
Instruction Strategies: Multiple Intelligences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embided=no&v=yJ328s7LUrI Howard Gardner’s
Theory of Multiple Intelligences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embided=no&v=8eWdOrG3ut4 Multiple
Intelligences - Examples and Applications: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embided=no&v=IYh8yoQJJSk 8 Intelligences -
Theory of Multiple Intelligences Explained - Dr. Howard Gardner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embided=no&v=s2EdujrM0vA 9 TYPES OF
INTELLIGENCE. WHICH IS YOURS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?embided=no&v=QmIxAvKi1Eg
Tobyonline.http://skills4trainers.blogspot.com/2014/02/theory-of-multiple-intelligences.html Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligences. https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/multi-intelligences/Assignment
Step 1
Observe a real class and identify learning modalities among students.
Step 2
Write a report on the experience and what the implications are for future teaching and learning
Step 3
Share experience with course peers using the forum.
Instructions
Answer the following questions. Click on the following tool to access the questions
Strategies to motivate learners to learn (60 minutes)
Activity instructions
Different strategies to motivate students have to increase students desire to participate the learning process, thus improving their performance. Students may be motivated equally but the source of their motivation may differ and this is why teachers should use different strategies to motivate their students.
Click on the following links to learn more about different strategies to motivate learners
TEDxNorrkoping - Peter Gärdenfors - How to Motivate
Students?https://www.youtube.com/watch?embided=no&v=blWcbY5qA58 Student Engagement & Motivation Strategies &
Tips.wmv https://www.youtube.com/watch?embided=no&v=s9yOOwGYYfU
Motivating students. https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/motivating-students/ Strategies for Increasing Student Motivation. https://ctl.byu.edu/tip/strategies-increasing-student-motivation Student Motivation. http://stemteachingcourse.org/course-content/other-content/student-motivation/Assignment
Discuss different strategies that teacher can use to motivate their students.
Use the forum to share with peers
Write a short report summarizing the strategies you use to motivate your students?
Share your work with peers in the Forum
Assessment
Step 1
After completing a teaching simulation (SIMSchool) that demonstrates how student learning preferences manifest themselves teachers need to observe their own learners and firstly identify their preferences and then adjust their teaching to respond to these student signals. On completion of the school exercise teachers need to report on their experiences and submit to a forum of peers for sharing and discussion.
Step 2
Use the forum discussion below for sharing and discussion.
Complete the following activity.Click on unit summary to access the activity
Attribution:
OER used or adapted:
SIM School Simulation - http://rwanda.simschool.org/ including documentation - “Learning styles: The four modalities” [username: demo1@rwanda.simschool.org , password: demo]
YouTube: https://youtu.be/IgJW4r4eJJI
YouTube: https://youtu.be/2EmNMqli_O0
Learning Style inventory - http://problemsolvingsurvey2014.weebly.com/the-assessment.html
CCTI: 5 Innovative Approaches to Learning with Technology - http://cctionline.org/courses/innovative-approaches-to-learning-with-technology/
Teflpedia - http://teflpedia.com/Multiple_Intelligences
Phyllis Nissila - https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/collegereading/chapter/lesson-1-6-on-howard-gardners-multiple-intelligences-theory/ and
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/collegereading/chapter/lesson-1-visual-auditory-or-kinesthetic/
Lovless, B: https://www.educationcorner.com/motivating-your-child-to-learn.html
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