CommunityConnect

13th June 2013

Mobile Devices & Higher Order Thinking Skills

Penny Bentley@penpln

Blooms Taxonomy

Blooms Digital Taxonomy

Action Verbs

Learning Objectives

Activities

Apps

App Evaluation

Tonight’s Webinar

Discussion

• Who is using mobile devices with their students?

• Tell us about your experiences (supported, adequate PD, etc.)

• Give an example of how you’ve used a mobile device in class.

• How do your students respond?

• What model do you use to plan learning objectives?

Who was Benjamin Bloom?

Benjamin Bloom American Educational PsychologistTaxonomy of Educational Objectives

1956

3 Domains of Learning

Cognitive

Affective

Psychomotor

Image: Benjamin Bloom, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License

Blooms Taxonomy moves the learner from

LOTSto

HOTS

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Verbs

Image: Andrew Churches, Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 License

Blooms Taxonomy 1956 Revised Blooms Taxonomy 2001Lorin Anderson

Nouns

Why Use Bloom’s Taxonomy?• a framework to guide students from lower to higher order thinking

• use levels and verbs to write learning objectives (what to learn and why)

• plan activities

• select appropriate technology/apps to enhance student learning experience

• correlate assessment to cognitive levels

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

Blending Bloom’s cognitive levels with 21st century digital skills.

Andrew Churches

2007

It’s not about the tools, it’s using the tools to facilitate learning.

What are the contemporary skills we need our students to develop?

Rememberingrecalling information

Finding/Searching Describing/Journaling/Listing

Filing/Retrieving

Bookmarking

Learning Objective: The student is able to list…Example Activity: List the 5 food groups and name 3 foods for each group.

Understandingexplaining ideas or concepts

Mind Mapping

Blogging

Podcasting/Explaining

Learning Objective: The student is able to explain…Example Activity: Write a simple daily menu for child, using a range of food from the 5 groups, explaining why you chose those foods.

Applyingusing information in another familiar situation

Running Loading Playing Operating Hacking Uploading Sharing Editing

Games

Uploading & Exhibiting Photos

Drawing/Showing

Learning Objective: The student is able to use…Example Activity: Show students in your class how you would make a healthy meal.

Analyzingbreaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships

Mashing Linking Validating Reverse engineering Cracking

Survey

Graph/Compare

Screencast/Peer to Peer Learning

Learning Objective: The student is able to compare…Example Activity: Survey and compare the opinions of your class mates about healthy food they would like stocked in the tuck-shop.

Evaluatingjustifying a decision or course of action

Networking/Posting/Collaborating

Conferencing

Critiquing the News

Commenting Reviewing Posting Collaborating Networking Testing Debating

Learning Objective: The student is able to justify his/her opinions…Example Activity: Organize a debate about how to overcome global food shortages.

Creatinggenerating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things, problem ,

complex application

Animate

Program/CodeTinker/Invent

Tell Stories

Programming Filming Animating Blogging Mixing Re-mixing Publishing Directing Broadcasting

Learning Objective: The student is able to design…Example Activity: Design an advertising campaign to sell fruit to teenagers.

Design an Activitytopic

cognitive category

learning objective

activity

app

share

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App Checklist

What’s important?

bling valuecustomizationengagement

usabilitysharing

reporting/feedbackrelevance to learning outcome

thinking skills (Blooms)unique/different function (SMAR model)

Your Favorite Apps?

EVALUATING APPS FOR EDUCATIONAL USE

RUBRIC

Thank You for Participating