Multiple Intelligence

Can we turn a canvas into a masterpiece painting?

Can we make chair out of a block of wood?

Can we cook well?

Can we read well?

Not everyone is the same.

Everyone is unique.

They have their own specialties, in different fields.

I find myself to be rather bad at sports, but quite good at music.

In fact, I have managed compose a song (Not trying to be cocky here.)

The point here is, I am not a superman.

I might be suck when I play tennis, but I definitely can sing well, try me.

I found a nice presentation on multiple intelligences.

Have fun!

Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences on Prezi

Fun Maths To Learn

I was always looking for something extra, something that is not on formal textbooks.
Something fun, to be precise....

I got two here, hehehe....

Show this to your students, that'll make you look smart hehe :)

Vedic Maths: Multiplying numbers by 11-19 in less than five seconds.

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Favorite Psychologist

Well, obviously, I prefer Jean Piaget.

I was educated under the spoon fed system.
And trust me, it only produces brains that are not critical and not creative, boring.

All these years, before entering UM, I read about creativity teaching in education in other developed countries.
Well, I was wondering how they do that, and why aren't they fail?
Because I heard in some case, the children are over pampered in education until they learn nothing at all.

In my first year in UM, I've taken the "Educational Psychology".
The first time I met Jean Piaget, literally, I was so amazed by his theories.
Those stages of development, it was like a proof, or should I say, a recipe, of how my life is cooked up.

I was like, "Whoa, I have know this all along when I was young. Why didn't I've ever thought of that?"
Jean Piaget is a genius, pure genius.
His theories is like the last missing jigsaw puzzle to my whole picture of free thinking learning.

I love free and liberal thinking, and I hate the monotonous education system.
That's why I am gonna make a change on it, painting it with colours.

His passion for the kids is what makes me feel touch.
No one ever treat a kid for serious, except him.
He can just sit and watch those kids' behavior.
That makes a giant step in humanity.

Because we don't just make monotonous brains, we make creative brains.

Super Prodigy (GIFTED STUDENTS)

Sorry for waiting, Allow me to show you the slides me and Naqiah done together:

Enjoy!

Why Are You So Stupid? (SLOW LEARNERS)

"Why are you so stupid? Your brother is better than you, why don't you put more effort?"

Since young, I've always heard these words booming beside my ears.

For once, I hate my brother's existence to degrade me.

I really hate comparisons, really.

That makes me hate myself, for being really stupid like they've told.

It took me solid ten years to realize: I am not stupid, I just need more time to learn the same thing.

Being slow in learning, doesn't mean you are stupid, that's for sure.

Albert Einstein first start to talk at the age 9, but can you call him stupid?

Maybe we slow learners stumble from the starting point, but that doesn't mean we will forever lag behind.

Give me time, I will stand up again, I promise you.

And I will fly farther than anyone of you, trust me.

How little sparrow understand the great ambition of the swan?

It gets a little emotional now hahahahahaha......

It just that was my life few years ago.

Being the youngest child equals to endurance to comparisons your parents frequently made.

I trust that many children had experienced this situation.

It is not a good feeling at all.

Carl Rogers

Well, I totally forgot this good fellow....... I need to do research on him now......

Carl rogers is the founder of the Humanistic Theory.

Human...... seems to me that this theory is not a cold- minded logical thinking result, but more to the result of compassionate thinking to make society a better place to live.

Rogers created what he called the self theory.

The self theory focuses on the idea that we are all inherently good people and we all want to reach our potential- he called this our actualizing tendency.

To reach this potential we need three things, genuineness, acceptance and empathy.

Genuineness is the idea that you are totally open with your own feelings.

Everyday each one of us walks around trying to live up to the image of how we want others to see us.

Instead, Rogers wants us to drop the facade and become our true selves.

Empathy is the concept that we can listen, understand and mirror what others are feeling. Being able to put yourself into someone else's shoes and grasp how they feel at that moment is a test of empathy.

Finally, Roger's believed we need acceptance to grow and reach our potential.

We believed that we should accept both ourselves and others without reservation and he called this notion unconditional positive regard.

If a parent accepts you just if you get good grades, how will that make you fell?

But if a parent accepts their child unconditionally, a child's growth will be positive.

I did do some research on the history background of this theory, then I found that the society is much to accounted for.

It was set back in late 1950s, "Make Love, Not War" era is at its peak.

Well, if love was in everything you do, I can't see no reason why it will not making you more compassionate ever?

So, my personal view, a person will stress more upon on personal attitude rather than personal work done.

Unlike robots, we human are able to have feelings.

And feelings, that makes us make many important decisions in our life.

Have you heard Skemp and Dienes before?

Well, finally my turn again to present!

I was using up quite much time to present even though I skipped quite a few slides. (Not important slides though.)

It is ok for me to present Ausubel and Bruner, but me and Latifah was having a hard time to look for the information about Skemp and Dienes. Because we never seen and heard of it before, moreover then source in the internet are not to be fully trusted, and the reference books in UM library are too ancient to contain these new ideas.

Well, personally, I think the presentation was disastrous, we are not familiar with Skemp & Dienes. I just don't fully understand at all.

Both Skemp and Dienes seem to reuse the old concept and put it into their shoes.

As Chinese says, "you have changed the bottle, but the wine within it is still the same."

So, what's the point and rational behind these two theory?

Well, you wanna know what am I thinking?

My opinion that it is very hard to present the new knowledge we never learn before to our friends. Because we never understand the concept, we will tend to define the knowledge ourselves. Whether it is good or bad no one knows, only God and the creator of the theory know best. :)

What I really mean is, it is impossible to cook a delicious meal, if you only give us order but not ingredients, isn't it so?

I was told I am going to present again in a few weeks to come, about teaching disabled and able students. Once again, I've never learned about this thing. How am I going to present when I myself never understand at all?

I am just expressing my confuse here, because this is neither discovery learning, nor it is constructivism. Everything is so hard and so confusing.

I sincerely hope that this blog will not hurt anyone's feeling, because this is what blog are for, to share ideas.

Finally, I would like to say sorry and thank you very much.

P/s: Is there any interesting ways to learn psychology rather than just show and tell?