1. "Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid." 
-Albert Einstein

2. Self-Concept:
A collection of beliefs about one's own nature, unique qualities, and typical behavior.
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3. “It’s not IF you're smart, it's HOW you're smart."
Meet Howard Gardner
“It’s not IF you're smart, it's HOW you're smart."

4. A psychologist and professor of neuroscience from Harvard University
Dr. Howard Gardner
A psychologist and professor of neuroscience from Harvard University
Developed the theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) in 1983.

5. Intelligence Quotient Multiple Intelligence
Human beings are born with a set cognitive ability or intelligence.
This intelligence can be measured by a set of questions.
Intelligence is fixed. A person can only be a smart as his or her genetic predisposition determines.
Intelligence Quotient
A new way to think about intelligence.
All human beings have nine different kinds of intelligence that reflect different ways of interacting with the world.
Intelligence is not fixed! Everyone can build and develop intelligence.
Multiple Intelligence

6. Logical/ Mathematical
9 Intelligences
Linguistic
Logical/ Mathematical
Musical/ Rhythmic
Bodily/ Kinesthetic
Spatial
Naturalist
Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Existential

7. The capacity to use language to
9 Intelligences
Linguistic
The capacity to use language to
express what's on your mind and to understand other people.

8. The capacity to understand the
9 Intelligences
Logical/ Mathematical
The capacity to understand the
underlying principles of some kind of causal system, the way a
scientist or a logician does.
To manipulate numbers,
quantities, and operations the way a mathematician does.

9. them, and perhaps manipulate
9 Intelligences
Musical/ Rhythmic
The capacity to think in music-- to be able to hear patterns, recognize
them, and perhaps manipulate
them.

10. The capacity to use your whole body or parts of your body (your
9 Intelligences
Bodily/ Kinesthetic
The capacity to use your whole
body or parts of your body (your
hands, your fingers, your arms) to
solve a problem, make something, or put on some kind of production.

11. The ability to represent the spatial world internally in your mind:
9 Intelligences
Spatial
The ability to represent the spatial
world internally in your mind:
the way a sailor or airplane pilot
navigates the large spatial world,
or the way a chess player or sculptor represents a more circumscribed spatial world.

12. The ability to discriminate among
9 Intelligences
Naturalist
The ability to discriminate among
living things and sensitivity to other features of the natural world.

13. Having an understanding of yourself; knowing who you are,
9 Intelligences
Intrapersonal
Having an understanding of
yourself; knowing who you are,
what you can do, what you want to do, how you react to things, which
things to avoid, and which things to gravitate toward.

14. The ability to understand other
9 Intelligences
Interpersonal
The ability to understand other
people. The ability to understand other people, interact with other people, interpret social cues, and be socially skilled.

15. The ability and proclivity to pose (and ponder) questions about life,
9 Intelligences
Existential
The ability and proclivity to pose
(and ponder) questions about life,
death, and ultimate realities.

17. Bar Graph
Pie Graph

18. Bar Graph Contains 2 axes: X and Y Communicates numerical data.
Displays data for comparison.
What information is being communicated along the X axis?
What information is being communicated along the Y axis?
What does this bar graph compare?

19. Pie Graph Communicates relationships.
Comparisons between part and whole.
Which relationships are shown in this pie graph?

21. Un libro
by Adelaide Love
Un libro, credo, è molto simile Una piccola porta d'oro Che mi porta in luoghi Dove non sono mai stato prima. Mi conduce in paese delle fate Oppure paesi strano e lontano E, meglio di tutti, la porta d'oro Si trova sempre socchiusa.

22. A Book
by Adelaide Love
A book, I think, is very like A little golden door That takes me into places Where I've never been before. It leads me into fairyland Or countries strange and far And, best of all, the golden door Always stands ajar.

23. 8 3 2
Total Score: 13/16 points

24. 4x3
=12
2x2 =4
3x2 =6
4x1 =4
12+4=16 6 4
Total Score: 26/32 points

27. Journal Prompt:
A self-concept is a collection of beliefs about one's own nature, unique qualities, and typical behavior. Based on your experiences in this lesson with Multiple Intelligence, formulate (DOK 4) your self-concept as an intelligent college student.