WOW! Week 9 has almost ended... but even though we are almost finished with the course, we are still learning a lot. I enjoyed the process of thinking about ideas and ways to use technology in order to address a variety of learning styles. I decided to think of one idea for each one. This is what came up with:
Verbal-Linguistic/Active learners: Choral reading: Teacher will provide the students with a poem or a tongue twister,. The group will have to read the poem/ tongue twister, memorize it and finally record it using their cellphones, iPods, iPhones or Ipads. Once the group has recorded it, they will have to upload it to their personal blog, YouTube, Facebook, for the rest of their classmates to see and hear it.
Optional poem: Drive the nail aright boys, hit it on the head; strike with all your might boys while the iron's red. When you've work to do boys, do it with a will; they who reach the top boys, first must climb the hill. Standing at the foot boys, gazing at the sky, how can you get up boys, if you never try? Though you stumble off boys, never be down cast; try and try again boys, you'll succeed at last. A Conch folksong.
Optional tongue twister: Betty Botter had some butter, "But," she said, "this butter's bitter. If I bake this bitter butter, It would make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter, That would make my batter better." So she bought a bit of butter – Better than her bitter butter – And she baked it in her batter; And the batter was not bitter. So 'twas better Betty Botter Bought a bit of better butter.
Logical/Mathematical/Sequential learners: Teacher will provide the students with a website that contains lots of food recipes http://allrecipes.com/video/1028/aunt-teens-creamy-chocolate-fudge/detail.aspx?prop24=VH_FeaturedVideo.
Students will have to choose one recipe, read and elaborate a flow chart that explains the sequence of the recipe. Students can use PowerPoint, Prezi, Cmap Tools... Once the group has created the flow chart, they can present it to the class or upload it to their personal blog, Facebook, class wiki... for the rest of their classmates to see it.
Visual/Spacial/Visual learners: Students will have to create their own comic strip by using the following website: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/. Once the group has created the comic, they will have to send it to everybody by email, or print it to show on the following class.
Bodily/Kinesthetic/Active learners: Students in groups will have to see and listen to one of the following songs in YouTube:
a) Where Is The Love? by The Black Eyed Peas, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpYeekQkAdc.
b) I can by Nas, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUqLGRMrFAg
After they choose the song, they will have to create a choreography to record and post it online or present on the following class.
Musical/Rhythmic/ Active learners: Students will have to sing the following karaoke song in YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md7yizjJYnQ
Intrapersonal/Reflective, sensing and verbal learners: Students will have to write a personal reflection on their personal blogs about the following news: Fast & Furious actor Paul Walker mourned, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25178851
Interpersonal/Reflective, sensing and verbal learners: Students will have to share their personal perspective on a discussion thread in Moodle about Paul Walker's death. Possible questions: How does it make you feel?, Why? What effect or impact did his life have on his fans? Do you agree with car racing? Explain your answer. What do you think about the perspectives that your classmates are sharing? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25178851
Naturalistic/Sensing learners: Students will have to visit a pet shelter in their communities, ask questions about their favorite animal, take a picture of it and write a physical description of it. They can present it on the following class or upload it to their personal blog, Facebook, class wiki... for the rest of their classmates to see it.
Existentialist/Reflective learners: Students will have to sign to an online community that promotes a safe, healthy interaction and reflection among its members. Student then can present the community and the interaction that they have had with it, during a class presentation.