Reboot UP Education! – Start With Machine-Assisted Learning Intelligences (MALIs) – The Right Approach

I wish there was the Internet when I became a student of UP Los Baños, 1959 – and each student, such as in the top image, provided with a laptop. I wish the personal computer (PC) was already invented when I taught college at the Xavier University College of Agriculture (XUCA) 1969 – XUCA is most memorable as it was where I first taught organic farming and one of my students, Nicanor “Nicky” Perlas took it to heart; later, Nicky’s organic practice won him The Right Livelihood Award 2003 for “his work as an environmental activist” (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org). (Aside: Yes, publicly he acknowledges me as his teacher-inspirer.)

Yes, reboot UP System Education! UP instructors should be knowledgeable with MS Office; teach them Machine-Assisted Learning Intelligences (MALIs)! MALIs should be easy – in each class, group the students into 5, say, each with a PC – just make sure at least 1 student knows well how to use the laptop.
(“Group” from t3.com)

From “Academics (UP Los Baños, uplb.edu.ph):

The university provides leadership [in] higher education institutions in its traditional strongholds of agriculture and forestry, as well as in the areas of biotechnology, natural resource management, engineering, food science, computer science and information technology, environmental science, and nanotechnology.

Wow! That is all news to me today, Friday, 07 April 2023, some 58 years after my graduation in 1965 with my BSA major in Ag Edu.

I studied to be a teacher: BSA major in Ag Edu. Graduating in 1965, many years afterwards, I had to teach myself my digital abilities today: writing, editing, formatting, desktop publishing – the works! I taught high school in my hometown Asingan, Pangasinan; I taught college at the Xavier University College of Agriculture (XUCA) – I wish the information superhighway was already invented in those days.

I already was very good at typing manually; I started teaching myself digital skills on Innocents Day 1985, starting with WordStar Version 1. Today, at 82+, suddenly I have come to realize that the Internet-Intervening Years have been there to help teach any subject under the sun!

How? Start with thinking intelligently in any subject! Make it exciting!

Here is Steph Arnaldo of Rappler pushing for teaching a child to become optimistic, as according to psychologist and relationship counselor Lissy Ann Puno (07 Oct 2021, “Glass [Half-Full]: How To Raise An Optimistic Child, According To A Psychologist,” Rappler, rappler.com, source of lower image). “An optimist is “a person one who can see the good in any situation and stay hopeful amidst challenges.”

Thanks, Ms Lissy! “Optimism” (in another term) happens to belong to one of the 9 Multiple Intelligences (MI) taught by Harvard professor Howard Gardner that we should be using to teach young and old to become intelligent in their own rights – see #4 below:

1. Bodily-Kinesthetic – “Body-Movement Smart”
2. Existential – “Life Smart”
3. Interpersonal – “People Smart”
4. Intrapersonal – “Self Smart”
5. Linguistic-Verbal – “Word Smart”
6. Logical-Mathematical – “Number/Reasoning Smart”
7. Musical – “Sound Smart”
8. Naturalistic – “Nature Smart”
9. Spatial – “Picture Smart”.

With MI, do you see that MALIs is right?!@517