In a recent Carnegie Mellon University article students described the skills they’d learned while working at summer internships. Emma Reed worked for Smart Futures, a software development nonprofit in Pittsburg that provides career planning and eMentoring for schools. One of Reed’s tasks was to create a video on the theory of multiple intelligences which will be used by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of its Academic Standards for Career Education and Work.
Reed said that her favorite video was on multiple intelligences, which is a way of looking at intelligence through different lenses. Some kids may have musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence or a myriad of other intelligences, and the video explains what each of these intelligences mean. Reed hopes that her work will help children figure out their own interests and what they might want to do as adults.
"I was always really excited about planning for the future," said Reed. "So, I'm trying to sort of pass that onto other kids for their futures."
It’s great to know that this college intern learned about MI theory and was able to pass her knowledge on to school students through the video she created. Hopefully, students who watch the video will be inspired to understand their intelligences and use them to do good work in the future.
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