MI Chapter 7

This chapter is about the multiples intelligences and the ecological factors in learning. What I took out of this was a guide to making sure that the classroom is a comfortable learning environment for all intelligences. The book suggests using different areas so that will help all the different types of students. The suggestion is to have four different activity centers. The permanent open-ended activity center where to specific tools for each intelligences would be kept throughout the school year. A temporary topic-specific activity center would change frequently depending on the unit of lesson. For a temporary open-ended activity center you might set up a quick activity for each intelligence in order to introduce a topic to your students. The permanent topic-specific activity center would be used for year long themes and the idea is a little difficult to grasp for me. The idea of these "activity centers" is foreign to me, right now I can't see myself using it, but as the chapter explains, there needs to be a fundamental change in how we picture classrooms.