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Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom's Taxonomy was first utilized back in 1956 and more recently updated in 2000. We have been using it every day this past week (and next) as my peers and I develop assessment questions for my county. But when you develop your lesson plans, you might want to use this digital wheel which allows you to click on the different parts to give you suggestions and visuals to consider when getting ready for your students.
If you want a poster of the wheel, here are several alternatives.
If you want to see how to integrate technology, then here is a great set of technology wheels.
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My Newspaper Editorial
I have been seeing a lot of negative editorials recently on technology use in the classroom and, not being a shy person, I wrote one and with the help of the Smarter Schools Project it was published today in the Richmond Times Dispatch. As...
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Pedagogy Wheel For Technology
I found this great Bloom's while from a Google+ post from Edudemic. If you click here, you can see a much bigger post. You could almost spend an entire year using the technology above. ...
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Bloom's Taxonomy
Above is an eleven minute video that uses The Andy Griffith Show to explain each of the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. I found it at EducatorsTechnology through a feed I get on my Netvibes account. An amazing explanation of how to use Bloom's...
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Google Glasses
If there is one main idea I want to get across in this blog it is that teachers should be changing all the time (and I assume in coming to this site you probably are). While Google's glasses are still a ways away (as are the contact lenses...
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Do You Want To Take My Technology Integration Course?
If you work in Fairfax County, VA, you can take my course this fall called "Enhancing the Use of Technology in the High School Social Studies Classroom." You can sign up for it in MyPLT. Simply type in "social studies" into the search...
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