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The "synthesising mind" is the ability to absorb, sift, select, and make sense of the vast and
indigestible amounts of data that surround us in the internet age. This could be the most important
of the five minds for survival in everyday and working life as we flounder in ever-higher tides of
data.
The "creating mind" is Gardner's third category. This is the mind that "forges new ground"
and discovers new ways of doing things.
The fourth category is the "respectful mind". This is about recognising the "otherness" of
people different from ourselves and respecting the differences of, for example, traditions,
religion, and ethnicity.
Gardner's final category is the "ethical mind". This goes beyond simply respecting others
towards actively striving to do good, trying to make the world a better place.
How do they stack up?
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Synthesising Using Symbols & Texts
Creative Thinking
• Even long before the theory emerged and was named in 1983 by
Howard Gardner, numerous teachers fostered the intelligences of
their students.
Think of it this way:
J.K. Rowling, Richard Feynmann, Savage, Colin
McCahon, Daniel Carter, Helen Clark, Deepak
Chopra, Jane Goodall, and Gary Larson are students
in your class.
• J.K. is writing the next Harry Potter adventure on scraps of paper.
• Savage softly hums the tunes for the sequel to "They don’t know."
Verbal-Linguistic Books, stories, poetry, speeches, author visits Writing stories, scripts, poems, storytelling
Posters, art work, slides, charts, graphs, video Drawing, painting, illustrating, graphic
Visual-Spatial tapes, laser disks, CD-ROMs and DVDs, design, collage making, poster making,
museum visits photography
• Bring an outside expert into the class to enhance lessons. For example,
when teaching about geometry, invite the builder who is building a
house down the street to discuss how he uses geometry in construction.
• However, when students are doing activities that they enjoy, they
become entranced, in what psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
calls a state of "flow." When the students are absorbed in their work,
you may feel frustrated with the amount of time the schedule allows.