Multiple Intelligence Chapter 12

      The most important and significant thing that I got out of this chapter was the discussion about how we evaluate "how students think almost as much as what they think about." (161). This was an important point because in today's society we do try and figure out how students think and why versus what their actually thinking about. It seems to be that teachers are questioning why students don't remember things that they have taught them but I think what the real issue is that the students never really learned it in the first place. Students may have memorized it or retained it long enough but clearly that isn't even accurate because by the next day the students can't engage themselves in what they discussed the day before. This really has to be part of the system that needs to get worked out. Teachers need to find a way to engage their students in the curriculum and students need to start understanding the importance of their education. They discuss students "poor memories" (162) and the reason for that probably is because in the society we live in today we don't have to ask students to remember things because they have all the technology at the tip of their fingertips to access it freeing up space to remember information and that needs to be something that we change.