Students use their spatial, kinesthetic, intrapersonal or contextual intelligence to comprehend the concepts we are covering in class. For example they might diagram a concept before writing about it or offer examples of from their own circle of friends to represent different aspects of intelligence. As I share in my students' different ways of understanding it helps me to understand the same concepts in new ways. I also use that experience in later semesters to teach the students who follow them. Another strength I see in many of my students is one that allows them to see what is meaningful as they review information.
Naturalist intelligence describes the ability to see patterns in nature.
He suggests that in earlier times the ability to see these patterns helped us to hunt, gather and grow food. An intelligence or ability of this sort is again rapidly becoming more important in our society. Because we can now access information in such large amounts, we have to move through it very quickly and sift out the needed elements. Information on the internet now includes much more than the written word. Images, static and moving, and sound are becoming more and more common on the net.