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 * Transforming Learning with Unique, Powerful Technology **

Active student engagement often results in a student-centered approach to teaching. Five unique, powerful, and transforming learning experiences are: Visual Learning, Accessing and Assessing Information, Student Engagement and Collaboration, Feedback, and Creativity. Video, multimedia presentations, software programs, Internet sites, and graphing calculators are ways to present information promote visual literacy.


 * Exploring the Ways Technology Transforms Teaching and Learning in Schools **

// In planning and instruction, there are actions or verbs that are typically associated with the domains. These verbs have been used for educational planning and instruction. //
 * Inquiry Project **
 * Describe your school challenge and/or area of focus.
 * Define the factors involved in your area of focus (e.g., the curriculum, school setting, student outcomes, instructional strategies).
 * Connect your inquiry project to one or two cognitive domains.
 * In the 1950's Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues developed three types of domains for teaching and learning activities. **
 * They include: Cognitive: (//Knowledge),// Affective: (//Attitude),// Psychomotor: (//Skills//), Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation. In the late 90's, Anderson and Sosniak, along with a group of peer psychologists proposed Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating as the new domains. **

Sample Here:

Visit: [|Kathy Shrock's "Google Tools to Support Bloom's Revised Taxomy"]

Read: Bloom's Digital Taxonomy by Andrew Churches : A helpful visual for understanding how to use technology tools within the various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

[|A Model of Learning Objectives] : Rex Heer at ISU's three dimensional representation of the 4 X 6 Taxonomy. Use your mouse to "rollover" the graphic to see examples of learning objectives. Take a look at the graphic below to see how various Web 2.0 tools for learning fall within Bloom's Taxonomy structure: []

Bloom's Taxonomy: []

Learning Telecollaboratively:@http://clifmims.wetpaint.com/page/Blooms+Revised

Funny Webquest (for the visual learner) that teaches Bloom's Taxonomy: @http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/weblessons/bloomstaxonomy/blooms01.htm

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