Cortazzo+comp1+teach

I tried to teach my girlfriend Maria how to play video games, specifically the game Super Street Fighter 4. Until I told her that I wanted her to play video games for an assignment, she didn't want anything to do with it. She started off a bit slow in coordinating the controller to the figures on screen, but naturally she caught on. A large factor in her understanding of how to play was learning how to hold and use the controller properly. After learning that, the difficulty came in learning combinations in the game that make the fighters do special techniques. Given a little bit of time, Maria progressed exponentially and was able to defeat even I, a seasoned Street Fighter player. The only difficulty in teaching her was the initial interest I tried to instill in her.

--To what learning styles does the lesson you were trying to teach seem to appeal (for instance, shooting baskets might appeal most to Kinesthetic and Interpersonal intelligences)? Spatial, Bodily-Kinesthetic --In terms of multiple intelligences, what were the strengths and struggles of the person you were trying to teach? How did this help or hinder your efforts? Maria's strengths included hand-eye coordination from piano (musical) and picked up quickly on patterns (mathematical/logical). Her main struggle was being interested enough to learn. The strengths greatly helped because she was physically able to learn how to play the game and use the controller, but her struggle was a large hindrance because she basically did not want to learn in the first place. --What evidence did you have that the person had learned the lesson? In terms of multiple intelligences, what form(s) did that evidence take? The evidence i gained from teaching my girlfriend to play video games is that she consistently defeated me in Super Street Fighter 4. In terms of multiple intelligence, the evidence was logical.