Self Smart

What is self smart?

This intelligence focuses on the individual and their ability to be self-reflective.

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What are some personality qualities of self smart people?

Intrapersonal people are usually independent, deep thinkers and are skillful at being able to detect ones own feelings and predict reactions to those.

What are some activities and technologies that would help self smart people in a learning environment?

Web Resources - Providing web resources gives people with this intelligence the opportunity to discover and learn on their own. You might provide these resources by providing links using a social bookmarking site like Diigo or by building a website using Google Sites or another website builder. To get them started, you may want to give them skills in Information Literacy and how to find resources effectively. You may also use tools such as Google Custom Search Engine to refine their results to websites you know are valuable to the instruction.

Databases – Databases such as Nettreker can provide self smart individuals a great tool to research and find information on their own. There are also free directories that are similar but don’t necessarily have the education component. You might look at Google Directory, Thinkfinity, Yahoo Directory or even Wikipedia.

Blogging/Podcasting – Giving students the tools to think about topics and express themselves in this manner provides them a way to communicate with the instructor and others in the learning environment. Tools such as Blogger or Edublogs are a good way to get started with blogging. You may also use Garageband or Audacity to get started in podcasting.

It is sometimes difficult to know where a self smart person is at in instruction. They are sometimes quite and introverted. What do you do to assess whether or not a self smart individual is “getting it” or not? Share your ideas…