Week 9: Final Project Report - Learning styles - technology connections

Completing my Final Project Report had been the most stressful task. I have worked on using technology to make a change in my students motivation and self-confidence in order to get them involved in my lessons, turning those ones into learner-centered ones. It has been exciting and challenging as well since I could not predict the reactions of my students. Even though, before starting the implementation some had successfully completed some technology-related tasks such as creating their e-mail @gmail.com and send me answers to some questionnaire related to their difficulties in learning English. I could not asked them more at that moment since using a computer was totally new for many of them.

I am greatly indebted to Alba Vargas, my peer, who gave me some valuable advice during the report draft review.

Due to time constraint, I implemented the project over just one week, which means three sessions of fifty-five (55) minutes each. Week # 7 of the current course overlapped with spring holiday in Cote d'Ivoire so I could not get my students for the second week of implementation.

LEARNING STYLES AND MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

                     Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences   

I have read about the nine learning styles and intelligences as described by Gardner, explained and expanded by others such as Richard M. Felder and  Barbara A. Soloman. 

I remember that learners are different in the way they learn and demonstrate or express their competences. Some are better at a field and weaker at another. Being aware of these learning styles and strategies can strongly be helpful in designing curricula and course activities. Therefore it is up to teachers to carefully and usefully select and use as varied  activities as possible in order to address learners needs appropriately. 

USING TECHNOLOGY TO ADDRESS LEARNING STYLES

 






 Many activities that we have learned through this course can serve different learning styles at best. For example using a blog (https://www.blogger.com), a Webquest (http://zunal.com/), Padlet(http://es.padlet.com/) and Nicenet (http://www.nicenet.org/) can help learners with different styles demonstrate their best competences and develop other learning strategies.