Battle of the Brains

This was a very entertaining documentary about intelligence. By examining intellect from seven very intellectual people who all excel in their category, we can see a broad range if intellect is overall, just in our field, or maybe in something similar to what we focus on. I was surprised by how fun the quantum physicist was. He seemed to me the whole through (and later was confirmed at the end) to excel in all the categories. He was goofy and fun and to me creative and humble.

I was kind of surprised that the dramatist came out on top in the end. Also that no one figured out the bottle riddle. Seven of the most intellectual people in the world couldn't come up with an answer to that one. I don't think I really learned much about intellect because a lot of the stuff that was discussed we had just talked about in class. Overall the conclusions I drew from the movie were that honestly I believe that people with a high intellect are overall going to do well in most categories. People with average intellect will just excel in their one category.

Overall, I think the biggest thing I got from this is people learn in different ways and excel in different ways. One of the coolest thing was that classroom that assigns what they are good at and let's them do activities that will help them learn the best. It might not be that extreme in my classroom but I need to alter different learning activities to reach all children's intellect.