A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF LEARNING STYLES AND MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO INCLUSIVE EDUCATION | Journal of Global Research in Education and Social Science
The learning style theory and Gardner's hypothesis of multiple intelligences will be discussed in this article. In recent years, these ideas have had a significant impact on educational practise, and they have provided educators with viable answers to difficulties such as student disengagement and educational underachievement. This study, on the other hand, contends that both learning style theory and multiple intelligences theory should be approached with caution. The report examines the benefits and drawbacks of each theory before concluding that there is insufficient evidence to justify their usage in teaching.
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Haven’t looked at my follower count lately, and i just noticed a bunch new folks in the last week or so. Welcome to this odd mix of science, art, maps, gaming, animation, fandoms and random oddness. Among the new folks are two geologists, a mathematician (all women in STEM, yay!) ... and a half dozen spam/clickbait/porn blogs.
If I haven’t mentioned it recently, my science-y blog is paleobiogeography.tumblr.com, where I at least try to stick to a single subject, the confluence of paleontology and geography.
Dolphins are the most diverse family of living marine mammals and include species such as the bottlenose dolphin and the killer whale. However, their early evolution and fossil record has been steeped in mystery due to lack of good specimens. A new paper published in latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate ...
This is the skull of the holotype of Eodelphis in lateral view. Credit: Mizuki Murakami
The idea of going back to graduate school to study the things I love came to me fully formed earlier this month, reading an article on the internet while eating my lunch at work.
1) Complete Penn State's online Master's degree in Geographic Information Systems. The government will pay for one class a semester while I'm working. Duration: 2-3 years. My geospatial skills are rusty at the moment and I need to get them back up to speed.
2) Volunteer at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, first in the Paleobiology department, and later in the cartography department. I just signed up for the Paleontology Training Program (and got my boss's permission to take Thursday afternoons off) for the class that starts in March. Volunteer hopefully one day a week, and maybe one day on the weekend. Again, work will allow me to adjust my work schedule so that I work 4 10-hour days a week, as long as I get my hours in. Try to get involved in a research program, rather than just preparing fossils or leading tour groups. (Although I really, really want to get my fossil prep skills up too!)
3) Fill in knowledge gaps on things I haven't studied in a few decades, or never studied. This will mostly be math classes at the local community college. Statistics. Linear Algebra. Calculus. Math is a perishable skill, and I haven't flexed those muscles in a while. This will be out-of-pocket, but community college is cheap. Ish.
4) Reread all my old college geology and paleontology texts. My notebooks from undergrad are gone, alas. Refresh all the passive knowledge.
5) Get my drawing skills back. I've always felt a scientist needs to be able to sketch what (s)he sees. While I'd love to do a program in scientific illustration, it's not practical at the moment.
6) Leverage the contacts made in 2) to find do a final capstone project for my Masters that involves some meaningful research. No thesis is required, but you have to do a capstone project with a public presentation at a conference. It seems most of the students do this at the ESRI Conference, but if I could do this at a scientific conference, so much the better.
6b) Also pick the brains of the researchers I work with at the Smithsonian for the best grad program to apply to.
7) Apply to graduate programs.
8) (Possible) Take early retirement to help pay for grad school expenses. I won't take an unfunded position in grad school. I can retire early from the federal now, technically, but if I do it after the age of 55 (about a year after I can possibly finish the degree), I don't pay a penalty. While the retirement will certainly be less than it would be if I work later, I'm planning on working in paleobiogeography, either teaching or doing research, until I keel over of old age. The retirement pay will be a nice supplement to any assistantship stipend while I study.
9) Get accepted to a good grad program.
10) Get my Doctorate.
11) Work in my chosen field for the rest of my life. Teach. Publish. Do research. Be a scientist.
12) Die happy.
* For the purposes of this blog, the phrase 'cunning plan' should be said in the voice of Blackadder. Or possibly Baldrick.
This blog is dedicated to the convergence of two subjects I hold dear: paleontology and geography.
While I currently work partly as a geographer and cartographer at the moment, but I am about to start heading in the direction of going back to school for a Doctorate in paleontology and evolutionary biology. I'm starting by applying for a graduate program in Geographic Information Systems and volunteering at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.
As you might guess, this is a long term plan. I'm a middle-aged man, in what most people would consider mid-career in civil service. My biggest hurdle will likely be finding a reputable graduate program willing to "waste" one of their few student positions - and funding! - on someone who will have a demonstrably shorter career than other candidates.
Challenge accepted.
From this blog you can expect links to articles, art, photos, and humor related to paleontology, geology, mineralogy, geography and geographic information systems. I also plan to chronicle my journey towards a career I've wanted since I was a kid.
The blog is bare bones for now, things will liven up as I have time to enhance it.
Global late Quaternary [132,000 to 1,000 years ago] Megafauna Extinctions linked to humans, not climate change
Christopher Sandom, Søren Faurby, Brody Sandel and Jens-Christian Svenning (Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark)
— Proceedings of the Royal Society / Biological Sciences, 22 July 2014
Abstract The late Quaternary megafauna extinction was a severe global-scale event. Two factors, climate change and modern humans, have received broad support as the primary drivers, but their absolute and relative importance remains controversial. ...
We present, to our knowledge, the first global analysis of this extinction based on comprehensive country-level data on the geographical distribution of all large mammal species (more than or equal to 10 kg) that have gone globally or continentally extinct between the beginning of the Last Interglacial at 132 000 years BP and the late Holocene 1000 years BP, testing the relative roles played by glacial–interglacial climate change and humans.
We show that the severity of extinction is strongly tied to hominin palaeobiogeography, with at most a weak, Eurasia-specific link to climate change. ...
IMAGE Global maps of late Quaternary [a, b] large mammal extinction severity, [c] hominin palaeobiogeography, [d] temperature anomaly and [e] precipitation velocity. [More detail here ...]
Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change is an open access article.
