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"Bloom's Taxonomy and a Praying Mantis" -- a reflection on the original taxonomy through the lens of a third grade class.

"Questioning enables teachers to check learners' understanding.... These questions are often arranged according to their level of complexity; this is called taxonomy. Bloom's Taxonomy is one approach that can be used to help plan and formulate higher order questions."

Good thoughts on setting goals for technology use in a school, rather than allowing the technology to define the school's goals. "In the end, our advice is: be sure your school defines clear goals for what it seeks to achieve by having computing devices in the hands of its students."

6 models of blended learning, from Michael Horn: "Face-to-Face driver, Rotation, Flex, Online lab, Self-blend, Online driver."

"Resources and Annotations from UW-Stout's E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program. Contributors are mainly from the E-Learning for Educators Course & the E-Learning Practicum Course."

UConn professor demonstrates the difference between presentations with text and multimedia. A nice example of why multimedia is a better tool and creates less cognitive distraction when learning from a slideshow.

A passionate and eloquent plea from a university lecturer, attesting to the continued relevance of the lecture as a learning tool. I value her point that a lecture promotes active listening, but I disagree with the notion that a technology that has worked for thousands of years should see continued use simply because it has worked in the past.[1] Given the multitudes of other means of delivery of information today (remember, the lecture was developed when the only other means to spread information was handwriting), the lecture as transmission of information is a tool, not THE tool. She also equates books to lectures, and says that if we abandon one we move toward abandoning the other. A bit of tenuous logic, if you ask me. Still, perhaps worth a read.  [1] See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptorium#Trithemius.27_Praise_of_Scribes

"Students and Professors Sound Off on the State of the College Lecture" Lots of personal examples, not a lot of theory. But useful to hear both sides of the experience.

May be useful for math classes...

Visual Education

Should we flip Bloom's on its head?  (I'm not sure, I've yet to read it!)

Bloom's Taxonomy and Visual Literacy

from their promo materials "If you are interested in flipping, or are a veteran flipper, The Flipped Learning Network [http://flippedlearning.org] wants to invite everyone to Flip One Lesson on our second annual Flipped Day on October 1, 2014."

iPad in Education -Evaluating Apps for the Classroom

iPad in Education - Exploring Educational Content for iPad