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Description: Students will navigate on the internet to discover a variety of different types of learning. Their search experiences should include videos, online articles, newsletter template searches, and blogs. Teacher guidance and students researching should ultimately lead to Howard Gardner’s “Theory of Multiple Intelligences” and how an understanding of learning styles and modalities can be intertwined into a new style of teaching and learning. After learning about the myriad learning styles, students will express ideas that they have with other students (in a blog), respond to other students’ ideas, and ultimately create their own learning styles lesson for their teachers. These student-created lessons will encompass multiple modalities, while helping diversified groups of learners. Maybe the best part of the unit is that it empowers students to take control of their own learning; furthermore, when students understand how to create a well-written lesson plan that can justify “fun” learning, it becomes a benefit to the teacher and the students throughout the year because of the variety of lessons that will be brought to the forefront for the teacher to choose from when teaching the rest of the year with that class. Long term, it will really make teachers better because they will really understand the diversity of their students and the true differences in learning styles.
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