Gardner's eight frames of mind

In this blog I wanted to talk about Gardner's eight frames of mind. The eight different frames are: verbal, mathmatical, Spatial, Bodily-kinesthetic, musical, intrapersonal and naturalist. This is a very good example of the different types of skills different people have. All of these different types of mind frames are very important to everyday life. We need people of each different mind frame to make our world make. We need people with good verbal skills to help communicate with each other, we need people with good naturalist skills so we know how to take of the environament, and grow our food.
Each one of these is very important to our world. It is important that we have this diversity in our world, but it is also one thing that makes teaching a very tough job. Because every one is different we cannot teach everyone the same. So as teachers we will have to learn to teach to these different mind frames in order to be successful. This makes things challenging for teachers, but I also think that this is one thing that makes teaching fun because you get to interact with all different types of kids and that keeps things interesting when teaching.

Blog #1

My first blog is about the film paper clips. In the movie the kids of small town Tennessee have the idea to collect paper clips for each Jew who was killed in the Holocaust. Soon word spreads about what they are doing and they end up with 24 million paper clips. So they collected well over the amount of Jews and all other persecuted people killed in the Holocaust. They make a monument with an old railroad car and the paper clips.
This was a very unique idea that this school came up with. It was really a great way for the kids to get some hands on learning experience while learning some valuable information at the same time. This was a great way for the kids to see what six million looks like and how big of a number that really is. Once the kids built the monument and were the people giving the tours of the place, I feel that really showed what they had learned in this long process of collecting paper clips. They didn't just collect paper clips they learned in a very powerful way what happened in the Holocaust and what a horrible thing it was.