Showing posts with label learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learning. Show all posts

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Smartness

How you are wired and how you are taught make a huge difference on whether you learn something easily or not.  This I already knew.

I did not know that there were so many categories of intelligence. 

Today I learned that there are eight kinds of smartnesses:

Kinaesthetic – Body Smart
Linguistic – Word Smart
Logical – Number Smart
Interpersonal – People Smart
Intrapersonal – Myself Smart
Musical – Music Smart
Visual/Spatial – Picture Smart
Naturalistic – Nature Smart

If you go to the Birmingham Grid for Learning, you can learn more about the different kinds of intelligence and take a test to see where your strengths in learning are.

I guess I’m only four kinds of smart (and obviously not musically inclined at all, even though I played the clarinet for eight years in school  rolleyes ).  I thought I would have been stronger in the Visual category, but the rest doesn’t surprise me at all…

Smartness Chart