What’s Your Learning Style?

Take this learning style quiz at Edutopia and answer these questions.

1. What is your learning style according to the quiz results?

2. Do you agree with the results? Why or why not?

3. What are the limitations of Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences?

4. What are the assumptions of this theory?

5. Comment on at least three of your classmates posts and be sure to include questions.

Intelligent Design: Claims and Counter-claims

Intelligent Design and Creationism seem to be in the news every few months. This is one debate worth considering given the struggle to know how humans came to be. Are we here because of a higher power or did we evolve over millions of years?

1. Read this 2005 article about the claims and rebuttals to intelligent design.  What is intelligent design? What knowledge claims are made? What rebuttal, or counter-claims are given?

2. Learn more about these two very different perspectives. Visit this intelligent design web site http://www.intelligentdesign.org/ and explain the strengths and weaknesses of their claim.

3. Visit the National Center for Science Education web site http://ncse.com/creationism and explain the strengths and weaknesses of their claim.

4. In your knowledge issue question be sure to include reference to two ways of knowing.

5. Comment on one of your classmate’s responses