From Learning Styles to Intelligence First, thanks to Annette for her critical discussion of ILPs (Individual Learning Plans); it was really interesting to hear how she evaluated them wearing each of her hats.

• Her definition from Wikipedia was from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Learning_Plan but bear in mind that it might well have changed by the time you read it!
• My take on the associated issue of learning contracts can be found at; http://www.learningandteaching.info/teaching/learning_contracts.htm which includes a reference to the Collins book.
• We then finished off the stuff on learning styles (the links were posted last week) and made a foray into the world of meta-analysis: see http://www.learningandteaching.info/teaching/what_works.htm for a slightly (!) simplistic discussion.

The "learning style" issue we did not look at—the one (of two) which did survive Coffield's scrutiny—was the "deep and surface" distinction. See http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/deepsurf.htm

After the break we moved on to;

Intelligence

• The usual set of links can be found at:
  http://www.doceo.co.uk/academic/learning_links.htm#Aptitude
• with most of what I said touched on at:
  http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/intellig.htm
• The recommended reading was GOULD S J (1984) The Mismeasure of Man Harmondsworth: Penguin (but there is a more recent edition from the same publisher)
• the "Flynn effect"; discussed at http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eintell/flynneffect.shtml
• and we touched on Gardner's theory of "multiple intelligences"; http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/multiple.htm but we shall explore that further next week.

(When Pat and John will be "stimulating".)  21:36