Reading Reflection #2

This chapter by Ngeow: Classroom Practice: Enhancing and Extending Learning Styles Through Computers seemed to be based on these three main principles:

"1. Learners who are more conscious of their learning styles make better use of learning opportunities.
2. Learners learn better when they are provided with learning opportunities that enhance and extend their learning preferences
3. Learners work better with new learning styles when they are given guided opportunities to practice them. "

This article discusses the multiple intelligence approach to learning and how to adapt it to CALL.
It states that "if learners are to enhance their mindfulness, it is useful for them to realize for themselves, as well as to share with their peers and others, the different ways in which they learn language and to understand and practice new ways of learning."

The multiple intelligence theory provides the opportunity for students to discover how they "learn best and see that each student possesses a different set of learning preferences and abilities."
The chart on page 308 provides some great ideas and suggestions for each of the multiple intelligences and how to use it with the computer along with what computer programs might go with each intelligence. "Diversity in learning needs and preferences calls for flexibility in teaching and learning approaches in the CALL classroom."

This reading seemed to me to be a little scattered. It seems like they took the idea of multiple intelligences and tried to tweak it to fit the computer classroom and it didn't seem to quite fit.
Also, how you apply this concept in the regular or CALL classroom depends on the age of the child. I think any kids much younger then grade 5 or even at grade 5 might not understand the idea of multiple intelligences and all of this information might just confuse them. I think the ideas in the article might best be applied to upper middle school and higher, and then a CALL multiple intelligence lesson might work.
-Holly