Multiple Intelligences Newsletter, Vol 35, No 1
August 13, 2025
Greetings Friends,
How’s it going? Are you getting ready for the start of a new school year? If so, what are you going to do differently? I’d be delighted to hear from you!
I still subscribe to three daily newspapers, but I find that more and more of my information comes from the Internet. One has to be discerning – Who knew that everything on the Internet is not true?!? – but a wealth of information and opinions is available. This issue features several links that I think you’ll enjoy.
First, here’s a conversation with Howard Gardner, PZ Page Turners: A Book Talk with Howard Gardner. I’ve known and worked with Howard for years and I still found this very interesting.
Second, it’s hard to figure how AI is going to change our lives. All we know for sure is that things are going to be quite different. Make that quite, quite different. To that end, here’s a very disquieting article from the Chronicle of Higher Education: Opinion | Are You Ready for the AI University? Of course, this has many implications for K-12 education.
Previously, I shared an article by Howard, Shinri Furuzawa, and Annie Stachura, “Who Owns Intelligence? Reflections After A Quarter Century”. Well, this article, “Chimpanzees Have a Remarkable Spatial Memory and Sense of Direction,” illustrates their point quite well: Chimpanzees rely on spatial memory to find hidden food sources – Earth.com.
Looking for an interesting book? I just finished reading Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was Facebook’s Director of Global Public Policy. Whether or not you’re a regular FB user, the story is a good and sometimes frightening read. It is filled with implications about technology and leadership (and lack of leadership). It is not a pretty story but it’s relevant to all of us.
If you’re an educator planning for the upcoming school year, perhaps this article can be helpful in thinking about working your students’ parents: “Connecting With Students’ Parents”.
With apologies, here’s a correction from the last issue of Intelligence Connections. One of the co-authors of “Multiple Intelligences in Medical School: Alternative Assessment,” Yasmin Ghaseminejad, attends a Turkish medical school (not an Iranian one as I erroneously stated). Their article gives some insights into how MI is used in a medical school and creates the term “joyful testing. If you’d like more information, you can contact Yasmin (the future physician) at yasminghaseminejad@gmail.com and/or her father and co-author, Bahram Ghasemindjad, who is the of Head of an MI school in Iran, Kourosh Elementary in Karaj, at bghaseminejad@yahoo.com.
From Dr. Clara Cheng:
Students, would you like to join the MI STUDENT RESEARCH TEAM?
We invite you to join our MI Student Research Team and gain valuable experience in:
- Interviewing scholars (post-interview editing, transcription, reflection writing).
- Supporting school forums & overseas promotion.
- Writing & editing for the journal Research MI.
This is a great opportunity to develop research, internationality, communication and teamwork skills. No prior experience is required—just enthusiasm! If interested, please contact Dr. Clara Cheng at cheng.clara18@gmail.com.
We look forward to your participation!
Clara Cheng (Dr), Department Head, Research & Training, Supervisor, MI Student Research Team, G.T. College, Hong Kong
Finally, if you want to hear some biased thoughts on MI (that means they’re mine), you can check out my visit to Jackson Crapuchettes’ podcast, The Frogcast:
The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences | Dr. Thomas Hoerr | Episode 78
Thanks for your enthusiasm! Zap me an email with any questions or comments.
TOM
Thomas R. Hoerr
trhoerr@aol.com