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Multiple intelligences and 21 Century skills

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As young teachers what l believe worries us the most is not having generally a pleasant experience when in a classroom with our students, meaning a lesson not being explained by the teacher and understood by students, class discussions not to be present and overall to have a negative environment and make students feel unsafe. Such a nightmare! In this blog l am going to talk about how to understand our students better and how all of this will help to create that safe environment we all wanted to have when in school.   The theory of multiple intelligences  Psychologist Howard Gardner proposed that people have different types of intelligence that makes them reflect and interact differently from one another with the world. For example myself, l never liked math and no matter what l did l seemed to be getting worse at it, with every try of wanting to get better but on the other hand l was very good at other subjects. Gardner's theory shows us that not only linguistic , logica...

Technology in Education

  My first blog  Impact of technology in education, our expectations on the course   Technology nowadays is a big part of our routine. We work, learn, entertain, spend free time, find information and also educate ourselves in multiple fields. The impact of technology in every aspect of life is expanding every day and it is becoming a inseparable part of our lives.  As a student l have gone through different stages when it comes to technology. At first, in my secondary school, my friends and l had never had the opportunity to work with a computer because at the time computers weren't very common and not every school had them. All of us would stare in awe when a teacher would do a PowerPoint presentation. Then, l went to high school where l found myself thrown into having to do everything with a computer, which l remember it was really hard for some of my classmates to adjust to. I on the other hand found myself amazed by the things l could do with a computer especiall...