The answer is yes, writing teachers should start introducing multimedia presentations. For example, in the article "Applying Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom" Fred and Meolody Lunenburg state: "Spatial intelligence refers to the ability to accurately perceive the visual-spatial world and perform transformations on one's perceptions." This is exactly what students do in their writing class today. The lesson is about acquiring information and explaining your point of view on a given topic. So why not incorporate this theory of spatial intelligence into the classroom? Incorporating more activities into a classroom setting will help bring back college students' attention and allow students to get a bigger picture of what they are reading or discussing. To do this, the article states that writing teachers could: “Use pictures as writing prompts, encourage students to include drawings and images in their writing.” (Lunenburg and Lunenburg) in a college course instead of making pictures or drawings, students could create graphs or tables, or even slides with information and pictures to help students imagine and graph what they understand and present it to the public.
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