Gardner

The Five Minds For The Future chapter three was an interesting read. It was more complex than the Daniel Pink book. I found myself getting lost in all those intellectuals he used for his research. Basically he wanted to let persons like myself know how the mind works and the various ways we research and develop our profession. After reading the chapter I have a little more insight on how to research my project. In the chapter Gardner gave eight types of synthesis and four components. I hope to use what his ideas to develope my project and come up with some use ideas in my conclusion.

My research will be on intonation. I read Mrs. Butts blog and I see that she has chose that as her project. Mine project dealt with my elementary students. My approach was to use the listening to notes on the piano, vocal, memory, and rules to get them to understand the relationship between the piano, and the violin. I plan to use the four components help with my evaluation.

I had talked with one of my collegues yesterday who is in the class. We had come to the conclusion that although we are pressed for time in the class that on the whole it has been a very interesting class and that an extension to the class for another semester would give us a chance to develope more and better research and that we could very well come up with a lot more usefull ideas that would help us develope our students more.