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I would like to solicit some advice regarding two related but
distinct issues. It seems to me that the advances made in education over
the past twenty years should help to inform our teaching of limudei kodesh
as well as our general education. Two of the most widely discussed areas
of concern are the use of technology in the classroom and the teaching to
multiple intelligences or in different modalities. By their nature and by
tradition, limudei kodesh are highly textual in focus and concentration
and are thus not as easily adapted to these new trends in education.
Nonetheless, the truths of multiple intelligences and the advancements in
technology do not stop at the border of general studies. So, my two
questions are:=20
1) Has anyone used technology effectively in their teaching of limudei
kodesh or in their classrooms, particularly in secondary school (beyond
the use of textual aids, such as the Bar-Ilan project or dictionaries on
CD)?
2) Has anyone made an effort to apply the lessons of Gardner's multiple
intelligences and can this be accomplished without sacrificing the
essential textuality of the tradition of Jewish learning?
Joshua Levisohn
Akiba Hebrew Academy</HTML>
