[gobolinux-users] Fwd: Multiple intelligences: Further clues to Linux uptake - 2

[Rex Teague]

----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: Multiple intelligences: Further clues to Linux uptake - 2
Date: Monday 30 October 2006 14:20
From: Rex Teague <elists234 at slingshot.co.nz>
To: linux-users at it.canterbury.ac.nz

A quote from a Mandriva Club article "To GUI or Not to GUI, That is ...
Illogical, Captain ..."

"Hardly a day seems to go by when I don't encounter some pointless
 troll ranting on about why KDE users should switch to GNOME, why all
 of the available Linux GUIs are crap for Windoze-addicted zombies who
 need to become Real Men (read: "Real Geeks") and start using the
 command line for everything they do, and so on. As it happens, this
 all coincides with my own participation in a very hard online English
 teaching (TESOL) course. Part of this involves a look at different
 aspects of the psychology of learners and one particular aspect, which
 I had encountered previously and had not until now explored in any
 depth, was the different types of learner.

"I'll explain. Some time ago, the author Howard Gardner published a
 list of learner types subsumed under his theory of "Multiple
 Intelligences", according to which people would learn best in an
 environment which was arranged to support their particular style of
 learning. Later, in Australia, Murray Loom produced a list of
 attributes which might be found in these people, and it makes
 interesting reading: ... "

Read more at:
http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/chromium/PsychologicalGUIPrefer
ences

-------------------------------------------------------