Blog #2

Hi all,
Here is my Blog #2 on Gardner, Bloom, and Dale:

After researching all three I found that each had a little bit of something in common with the other one. Starting with Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory, or the only "learning-developmental theory that attempts to define the role of intelligence in learning". It talks basically about eight different learning styles that Gardner believed people learn by. Second there was "blooms Taxonomy" which basically states that there are three different ways that people learn and divided it into three categories:Cognitive: mental skills (Knowledge),Affective: growth in feelings or emotional areas (Attitude), and Psychomotor: manual or physical skills (Skills). Each being a different learning style that individuals use, whether they use one or all three. The third theory is that of "Dales cone of experience", which also basically states that individuals learn from their "most concrete experiences to their most abstract experiences". Basically there are also three ways that people learn, similar to that of Blooms way of measuring learning styles and multiple intelligence.
For Gardner's theory I believe that it can support technology integration by the fact that technology allows you to learn in multiple ways just as Gardner states individuals need or already do. However, I think it hinders technology in the classroom, because mainly it may not work for all students, you may run into some problems because students obviously are not all the same. As for Bloom's Taxonomy theory I think that it could support technology integration in an early elementary classroom maybe a little better than that of Gardner's mainly because it is simplified and broken down to three categories of : Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor. Because it is broken in to three categories instead of eight you are able to break down the different learning styles much easier between them allowing you to adjust technology used in the classroom in to broader categories.However, you might run into a few snags if you cannot place all the children in just those three categories or you have students wh ofit two or more. This would just make it difficult to adjust the technology for those particular students. Finally for that of "Dale's cone of experience" I think that this one best supports technology integration becasue it allows the children to base there knowledge and learning styles off what they already know. The only negative I think you could have from it would be obviously not all children will have had the same experiences leaving it difficult to adjust the technology used.
As for the three different types of technology uses I feel that for all of them they use Type I technology use, because each theory talks about different learning styles and teachers who understand that and who use different learning techniques will be able to adapt to the childrens different learning styles making it more of an extension of what the teacher knows rather than taking control from the teacher or integrating a new system. As for Type II I feel that out of the three only Dale's Cone is the only one that relates to Type II and that is because that theory is based off of the children's experiences, and the teacher does not really have any interaction with the child outside of class giving them limited control on what the child does experience outside of their classroom. As for the other two theories, I don't think they really relate to that of Type II, or at least not in the sense that Dale's Cone theory does. For the final Type III of technology I feel that all three theories relate to it becasue all three can be adapted to the classroom to be used as a tool for the students by letting them learn and understand their learning styles so that the teacher will have more success with her students. All I think can be related to a classroom in some way and used with technology to become a great learning tool and assest to the class.
In the end I think that all three theories are alike and different in thier own ways but all interrelate to each other making any of them great to utilize in an early elementary classroom!