Chapter 2- Think Differently- Thoughts?? by https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf Please feel free you share... Thank you for your honest opinions. en-us 2016-11-06 22:09:29 UTC 2025-11-11 05:37:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Manbag.png It is interesting how history has played a vital role in how people still feel today in regard to education and how to improve it. This chapter challenges us to think differently about how intelligent we are and how we can encourage others to see their gifts rather than their shortcomings.... jventura2 https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/135804451 2016-11-07 15:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/135804451 I feel as though this chapter makes you question the type of intelligence you have. You're told your whole life that you aren't a good test taker, but in reality the tests are not testing your particular intelligence. We need to use our abilities and disabilities to our advantage. https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/135805581 2016-11-07 15:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/135805581 Intelligence is really up for interpretation. Intelligence is something that is inside all of us. We all were created differently on purpose. It was to add more spice to life. I believe that SAT scores are Bull----. IT does not define you, and at times it seems that it is designed to define you. We are all great and intelligent at different things and hopefully through life we are able to find out what it is and share that with others. https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/135805825 2016-11-07 15:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/135805825 Intelligence has many levels or sections. As we discover more about the brain and how it reacts to different stimuli I am sure we will discover many more parts to our intelligence. And definition of what intelligence we are measuring will develop as well. A test is just a test it does not have much to do with the intelligence of an average human being. It has much more to do with our experiences, perseverance (girt), and ability to compensate for our short comings. https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/135975496 2016-11-08 01:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/135975496 This chapter made me think of part of the film "As American as Public School," available through WPU's Video on Demand resource.  Intelligence and SAT testing influenced the thinking of many teachers in the last century, and these tests continue to have an influence in the lives of today's students.  Carol Dweck's work on mindset stemmed from her memories of being seated in order of IQ in a sixth grade classroom.  She had the first seat.  To read more about her experience and the research that eventually grew from it, see https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=32124. https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/136096709 2016-11-08 14:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/136096709 This chapter made me really think of how intelligence can be interpreted differently.  The  way one interprets it may be different then the way someone else may interpret it.  It is our job as educators to try to expose the different types of intelligences to our students. https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/136521580 2016-11-09 18:41:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/136521580 https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/136522031 Before watching this video and reading this chapter summary, I never really thought about the fact that there are different types of intelligence. I only defined it as, either you were intelligent or you were not. However, as stated in the chapter, there are many different kinds of intelligence. It is important that as educators we expose our students to all different types of trades, skills, experiences, etc. so that they can find what their true intelligence is.


]]> 2016-11-09 18:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/136522031 This chapter gives us the opportunity to look into our current education system and realize how we as educators are moving further away from allowing our students to find their "element", particularly in urban areas. I believe we are all born with innate aptitudes, and intelligence weather you are born in an urban, suburbia area or a lost village in the middle of the Sahara desert. What is intriguing is that our education system seems to pay no mind to such a powerful component of ones educational growth. If those that are making decisions on how our students should learn thought differently, our students undoubtedly will have more opportunities to grow and find their true path. https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137190661 2016-11-13 14:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137190661 Intelligence is known as a set of abilities, talents or mental skills that all individuals possess to a greater or lesser extent. As a former student and now an educator I find that K-12 students are limited to their greater mental skills and talents by https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137235353 2016-11-13 22:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137235353 Intelligence is known as a set of abilities, talents or mental skills that all individuals possess to a greater or lesser extent. As a former student and now an educator I find that K-12 students are limited to their greater mental skills and talents by limited curriculums and standardized tests. It's not until students attend their next level in education (college) that they are critiqued and instructed on their own personal mental skills, talents and abilities. https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137236708 2016-11-13 23:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137236708 The chapter mentioned state testing, and how it only measures one form of intelligence: academic intelligence. Intelligence is not measured fairly, or at least I do not think so, in regards to what the actual test is providing. Not every one learns the same; we have auditory, kinesthetic, and visual learners. Most, if not all, standardized testing is black and white, pen and paper, and/or computer-based. Intelligence should be measured through reasonable means; intelligence goes beyond the classroom. https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137397442 2016-11-14 15:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137397442 We are shortchanging our students and measuring their ability by test scores which is supposed to their intelligence. The teachers have scripted guidelines they must follow. What about those "teachable moments" where so many important things can be taught, discussed and learned? If the IQ test was designed to identify students with academic needs, why are we using it to rate intelligence for the other direction? We need to expose all of our students to the arts and https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137464355 music. So much can be gained by this exposure and to reinforce classroom theories. Education in this district is not equal for all. When some schools have access to the fine arts, music, libraries etc. and others not...how can you fairly assess our students. Those without lack the ability to find their passion whether it is following and academic or vocational route.  

]]> 2016-11-14 17:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137464355 naolsen https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137489598 Chapter two discussed many different components of intelligence. One area that was rather interesting to me was when the author spoke of standardized testing. The most famous one being the SAT. Students are prepped from an early age to do well on the SAT, in order to get into a "good" college. As an educator, I feel that we are not educating our students correctly. We are teaching to the "test" and not the child! 

]]> 2016-11-14 18:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137489598 When we hear the word intelligence we automatically think of IQ levels, assessment scores, or any other components that deal with ones individual knowledge. As mentioned in the chapter, intelligence should be based upon many elements, not ones academic abilities. We must begin to think outside the box when we classify ones individual intelligence. https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137489678 2016-11-14 18:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137489678 smentowski_10258 https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137491422 2016-11-14 18:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137491422 https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137605308 2016-11-15 03:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137605308 https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137716979 After reading Chapter 2 relating to intelligence, I remember Gardner talking about the 7 different types of intelligence. He said we are all born with a little of all 7. As we grow and throughout our education, we develop and become stronger in the type of intelligence that interests us. I feel that we do not expose our students to enough of all the different types of intelligence. We do not offer enough for our students in schools to grow. We need more of the arts, like music. Children should be offered an instrument to learn This is so important, this develops their brain. We are so fixed on the standardized tests. Our students are missing out. ]]> 2016-11-15 14:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137716979 https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137750369 After reading Chapter 2 relating to intelligence, I remember Gardner talking about the 7 different types of intelligence. He said we are all born with a little of all 7. As we grow and throughout our education, we develop and become stronger in the type of intelligence that interests us. I feel that we do not expose our students to enough of all the different types of intelligence. We do not offer enough for our students in schools to grow. We need more of the arts, like music. Children should be offered an instrument to learn This is so important, this develops their brain. We are so fixed on the standardized tests. Our students are missing out. ]]> 2016-11-15 15:07:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137750369 https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137751458 After reading Chapter 2  relating to intelligence, I remember Gardner talking about the 7 different types of intelligence.  He said we are all born with a little of all 7.  As we grow and throughout our education, we develop and become stronger in the type of intelligence that interests us.  I feel that we do not expose our students to enough of all the different types of intelligence.  We do not offer enough for our students in schools to grow.  We need more of the arts, like music.  Children should be offered an instrument to learn  This is so important, this  develops their brain.  We are so fixed on the standardized tests.  Our students are missing out.    ]]> 2016-11-15 15:09:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137751458 I believe that intelligence can not and should not be measured one way. People provide their own intelligence depending on what they are good are or know about most. I feel that there should be multiple measures of testing when it comes to being able to truly find out what a persons capability is. Some people are better at hand written assessments to where another would be better on a computer. Being in classrooms where we are expected to have an individual plan for each student then then there should be assessments that are created specific to the best way that student is capable of doing. https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137758568 2016-11-15 15:21:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137758568 https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137762190 Gardner's Multiple Intelligences is what popped out of chapter 2 and stuck out in my mind. We often think that being intelligent is about our scores on a test or our IQ, but there are so many other types of intelligence is. The trend in education right now does not follow Gardner's belief system. Our students are being taught to the assessments. Music, library, art, sports are being taken out of the curriculums and it is at the expense of our students. If we want our students to find what they are good at, we need to  ]]> 2016-11-15 15:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137762190 I agree that a children's intelligence should be measured in multiple ways to allow a child to really express themselves. I feel like many of the tests children take are structured in a very intimidating way and that children need to be children, as young adults should be able to apply themselves with thinking of the young adult mind. I remember elementary school as being more geared toward social skills and allowing one to find themselves in more interactive oriented tasks in a less stress related setting. Children should not be labeled . Once a child is labeled in school, very young , it is hard to change their attitude toward school and how they perceive different subject areas. https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137762836 2016-11-15 15:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/137762836 I feel that we should give our students more ways in which to explore their own different types of intelligence. They should not be measured by standardized tests alone. They should be offered more opportunities to explore themselves and to tap into the different intelligences that they have. We should provide them with more opportunities for them to tell us the things they really enjoy or love and the things they struggle with. We should listen to them and then help to guide them. https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/138983896 2016-11-21 01:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/138983896 joegarcia https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/139121457 I also believe that intelligence should not be measured one way,especially not children. All we do is prepare students for tests,not the real world.]]> 2016-11-21 15:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/139121457 https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/139493886 2016-11-23 00:51:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/139493886 This chapter makes you question what type of intelligence you have https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/141408417 2016-12-02 15:26:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/141408417 This chapter reinforced my belief that intelligence test were engineered to create a caste system or continue to reinforce the social classes we have in America. Unfortunately, children from poorer socio-economic back grounds don't excel when taking these test due to lack of exposure to vocabulary, language barriers, environmental setting, and culturally biased questions that are far removed from their world view. Standardized test like the SAT/MCAT/GRE/LSAT/AP Exam/ ACT provide justification for why a new approach to assessing student abilities is needed. My takeaway is finding opportunities to utilize and develop my students other intelligences (ie: vestibular senses, kinesthetic senses, intuition, sense of temperature, creative intelligence, practical intelligence) as well as analytical intelligence. The challenge is helping the" Powers that be/ decision makers" find value in this redistribution of efforts. "Discovering the element is all about allowing yourself access to all the ways in which you experience the world, and discovering where your own true strengths lie." https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/144530963 2016-12-20 20:51:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/144530963 Chapter 2 discusses the different types of intelligence. I think the different types of intelligence can be noticed throughout everyday life. I think it is important to balance these types of intelligence. What schools are focusing in on is only one type of intelligence and students should be exposed to all different types of challenges and problems within their school career to prepare them for what the world will be facing them with https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/150530063 2017-01-31 14:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jventura2/6rk3li8wdkkf/wish/150530063