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diane darrow

bloom's taxonomy of learning domains - bloom's learning model, for teaching, lesson pla... - 3 views

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    Bloom's Taxonomy provides an excellent structure for planning, designing, assessing and evaluating training and learning effectiveness.
Janet Cerni

Education Week: Educators Evaluate Learning Benefits of iPad - 1 views

  • centerpiece of a social studies curriculum that blends online and face-to-face learning.
  • supplement
  • But such rapid adoption of a device with such a short history means that figuring out the best educational use can involve a lot of trial and erro
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  • “Is this the best use of our funds, or is it simply a tool to engage and motivate our students?”
  • “Of course, technology has that capability, but is that always the best angle?”
  • In September, Virginia announced the purchase of 350 iPads for 4th, 7th, and 9th graders in four counties to test the use of the device as a 1-to-1 computing tool in social studies classrooms.
  • th and 9th grade classes used gaming and assessment applications
  • Pearson
  • personalize reading assignments based on proficiency,
  • e-text feature
  • most teachers and students supported continuing the pilo
  • Pearson officials say their material would be more refined a second time around after learning their own lessons about designing content.
  • that can lead you to want to overload the presentation.”
  • Teachers in the pilot also reported having to learn on the fly.
  • For this to work, really, next year, you need to have a team—one or two or three teachers—who will just sit down and go through this and put stuff on there that’s going to matter,” he says. “Trying to do it during the school year is just crazy.”
  • Excluding the fad factor, experts say there are legitimate reasons for educational interest.
  • iPad to help highlight key vocabulary words
  • some apps to help students understand fractions and decimals
  • definitely a work in progress
  • The question may be whether the iPad is best suited as a 1-to-1 device or to be shared as part of a stable of digital classroom tools.
  • students can choose which device to use for an ongoing book-publishing project
  • students rotate between workstations
  • 34,000-student Irving Independent School District, where all high schools follow a 1-to-1 computing model, about 10 students and 20 administrators are testing an assortment of tablet-computing devices to see how they would meet their daily needs
  • administrators
  • tablets to access their calendars and email while on the run through campus, as well as how to use their touch-screen capabilities to check off rubrics for teacher evaluations like they would with an evaluation form.
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diane darrow

Education Week's Digital Directions: Educators Evaluate Learning Benefits of iPad - 2 views

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    In September, Virginia announced the purchase of 350 iPads for 4th, 7th, and 9th graders in four counties to test the use of the device as a 1-to-1 computing tool in social studies classrooms.
diane darrow

HOTS: Higher-Order Thinking Skills - 0 views

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    Higher-order thinking essentially means thinking that takes place in the higher-levels of the hierarchy of cognitive processing. Bloom's Taxonomy is the most widely accepted hierarchical arrangement of this sort in education and it can be viewed as a continuum of thinking skills starting with knowledge-level thinking and moving eventually to evaluation-level of thinking.
diane darrow

K-5 iPad Apps for Remembering: Part One of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy | Edutopia - 0 views

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    It is Benjamin Bloom's belief that the entry point to learning is the acquisition of knowledge. He postulates that a solid foundation of terms, facts, theories, and skills is the educational base that will allow the mind to evaluate information effectively and inspire innovation.
diane darrow

The Must-Have App Review Rubric | Edudemic - 2 views

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    edudemic app rubric. download free rucbric. great model
andy russell

Dan Callahan's iPad Trial - 2 views

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    Great Trial on iPads in the Classroom
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    Great link in this article to managing iPads so teachers can have their own itunes account PLUS a school account. Issue we are dealing with. What about an iPad app with an interactive evaluation rubric for apps designed for educators?? Or a website with a app rubric calculator?
diane darrow

Education Week's Digital Directions: Educators Evaluate Learning Benefits of iPad - 0 views

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    "The Virginia Department of Education is phasing in the second wave of a pilot program that uses Apple's iPad tablet computers as the centerpiece of a social studies curriculum that blends online and face-to-face learning."
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