ETL501 Module 1.1 Bloom’s Tools

Module 1.1 invites thought about how the use of Blooms Taxonomy can encourage students to think and learn more deeply about curricular topics. Using a variety of web apps and resources to help students structure and create products of learning can help them to explore issues and topics more deeply and also assist students to learn transferable thinking and technology skills. Using these resources in a team teaching environment, or linking to them in a resource for staff can assist the teacher librarian to act as an instructional leader in technology for staff who may find this area difficult or intimidating. I found it useful to think about the scaffold I would use to assist students to achieve the type of thinking required for each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy, and then search for a web app that could do this digitally, rather than the common approach of having a recommendation for a particular app and trying to fit it into my teaching program. I suspect that one of the considerations I will learn about in this subject is the structuring of pathfinders and such resources in such a way as to include not only resources for locating information, but also for processing and presenting their thinking about that information.

Objective Question  Product of Learning
Resources/Web 2.0 tool
Knowledge What is an ecosystem? Definition Dictionary – print or online or basic textbook, eg. Wordnik, Visuword, …
Comprehension List the different parts of the ecosystem and explain what they do. Simple One way table Microsoft Word, Google Docs
Application Using a diagram, show how the water cycle operates in an ecosystem. Flowchart Diagrams.net
Analysis Contrast the natural water cycle with that used by our community. Venn Diagram https://gitmind.com/
Synthesis Identify an unspoilt ecosystem and design a way of preserving it. Hotspot Image Inabrains.com
Evaluation Is it reasonable that people pollute our waterways? Defend your answer. Podcast/video

Persuasive presentation

Audacity, GarageBand

Filmora

Explain Everything Digital Whiteboard