Monday, December 28, 2009

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy

I feel like I am constantly trying to push my students to use higher levels of thinking in my classroom. It is easy to incorporate this into lab activities because I ask them "what they think will happen if...". With labs, I am always asking them to apply knowledge, add on to knowledge, and evaluate what happened in the lab. I do have trouble finding other ways to incorporate some of the higher levels into my day to day teaching. I really liked the reading "Bloom's Digital Taxonomy" because it gave me ideas to use higher level thinking in technology projects. It's sometimes difficult to grade students on technology assignments, but this reading gave many rubrics to use. I see now that it's not just important for the students to know how to use the technologies, but also to use analyze, synthesize, and evaulate their work when doing this. I don't really agree with being able to start students at any level - I feel like they need to start at the bottom and understand the concepts before they can move up the pyramid.

I really feel that my photoperiod project already uses higher level thinking skills, but I would like to use those skills for the technology part. The students will be using search engines, google docs, and will have to evaluate information that they find. Some of these rubrics will be helpful for the students to see what they should really be doing when researching, and maybe they won't just use the first piece of information that they find.

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