Flipping Blooms Taxonomy. Teacher Shelley Wright is on leave from her classroom, working with teachers in a half-dozen high schools to promote inquiry and connected learning. I think the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is wrong. Hear me out. I know this statement sounds heretical in the realms of education, but I think this is something we should rethink, especially since it is so widely taught to pre-service teachers.
I agree that the taxonomy accurately classifies various types of cognitive thinking skills. It certainly identifies the different levels of complexity. But its organizing framework is dead wrong. Here’s why. Old-school Blooms: Arduous climb for learners Conceived in 1956 by a group of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom, the taxonomy classifies skills from least to most complex. Many teachers in many classrooms spend the majority of their time in the basement of the taxonomy, never really addressing or developing the higher order thinking skills that kids need to develop.
Here’s what I propose. I Don't Like This. I have finally gotten over my writer's block and decided to post something. The winter we had in Kansas was very mild and the spring we are having reminds one of June weather instead of March and April. This changing of the season is always brought on with great anticipation, you can go outside wearing shorts and tee shirts. Kids are supposed to be excited for this as well as adults.
We are now entering another season at school, the testing season. Our faculty has been involved in test prep and you can certainly tell it. I suppose I understand our staff's feelings, since the government and the media has put such high standard on the test results, but there has to be a better way. This is just plain nuts in my opinion. When I do PD at schools one thing I'm asked is how will this or that technology improve test scores? 6 Creative Education Blogs You Can Learn From. With over a hundred million active blogs out there and thousands more being created everyday, it is hard to know where to turn for the best information. The enormous number of blogs available is fantastic for those with obscure passions (say… Hungover Owls or Godzilla Haiku), but for those of us with broader interests, there is SO much choice.
As many of you already know, a great place to start your search for high quality, education blog content is the Edublog Awards. Listing the 2011 winners as well as all nominees, there is enough great content here to keep you going for a very long time. In addition to that exhaustive list we have put together six of our favorite education blogs (some Edublog nominees and some not yet recognized) that hopefully you and your school can learn from.
Heyjude Heyjude is the personal blog of Australian technology and library guru Judy O’Connel. Edudemic The Nerdy Teacher. 9 Great Articles about The 21st Century Education. My Library. The-First-Generation-Zs-to-Graduate-High-School-in-2012_McCrindle-Research_250112. The New Science Classroom Battleground: Climate Change | Wired Science. FrontPage. Can Technology Transform Education Before It’s Too Late? Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Prerna Gupta, who is CEO of Khush (now part of Smule), whose music apps, like Songify and LaDiDa, have been used to create over 125 million songs worldwide. You can follow her @prernagupta. As technology continues its march toward the Singularity, transforming the way we work, socialize and play at an increasing rate, there is one very important aspect of American society that lags behind: education.
Many in Silicon Valley have strong opinions on how education should be improved, perhaps most notably Peter Thiel, who believes we are in a higher education bubble and should be encouraging kids to skip college and pursue entrepreneurship instead. I agree that Americans are placing too much emphasis on higher education, but I think the debate over Thiel’s statements misses a much deeper point. Why is higher education overvalued? Dave McClure’s fund, 500 Startups, plans to invest in 10-20 education startups this year. The Year in Education: Seven Innovations Changing the Way the World Learns - Education. Top Ten Twitter Hashtags for Educators.
2011 Lesson #5 Make teamwork, collaboration and relationship building a habit. The separated classroom with separate teacher model taken to the extreme - it has to change. We are no longer educating children to work in production lines - and in the developing world, this model would be a major factor in the 80-90% post school unemployment rate in many countries, simply because students have not been taught job creation skills.
Earlier this year I looked at defining the ‘old paradigm’ classroom as compared with a new ‘learning community’ model. What was immediately apparent was the emphasis that is given to ‘separation’ in the one teacher, one classroom model. Separate and separated teachers work in separate classrooms, at separate desks, with separated class groups on separate programs with separate preparation – with students sitting in many instances in separate seats in separate rows. Get the picture? No wonder conflict so easily arises in a ‘separate’ model – tension rapidly escalating in confined spaces that can rapidly become a pressure cooker of emotions.
40 Incredible Blogs That Are Changing Education. Does A College Degree Actually Help In A Recession? 3.09K Views 0 Likes Your parents always encouraged you to do well in school, so that you could go to a good college. Once there, they would encourage you to study hard so that you could get a good job. Or at least that was what was supposed to happen. But in the midst of a recession that's been going on for awhile, most news that we see says that jobs are being lost, not gained. 10 Degrees for the New Economy 4.30K Views 0 Likes The economy is tumultuous, and as people graduate from high school and seek a career path, there is concern about what career to pursue. Imagine Learning. As educators and leaders, we need to re-think every aspect of our professional practice to consider ‘could we be doing this better?’ Here is a brain-dump of the 6 most powerful strategies that I have used or in which have participated. 1. Use a ‘hands-on’ approach that teaches team work I want the teachers for whom I am accountable to comprehensively embrace student centred, inquiry based learning.
If as a school leader I expect staff to sit in a room listening to me talk for longer than 5 minutes (or saying anything at all), then I am assuming that the collective cost of the time of the number of attendees is best spent that way. Instead, use the mode of PD as a means to shift staff practice by getting everyone to experience the methodology you are advocating.
The emphasis on this style of PD is that you get teachers to do exactly what you would want them to do with students. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. IPAD TRIAL. Earth User Guide for the iPad - Google Earth Help. This user guide describes Google Earth for the iPad. Welcome to Google Earth, on the go! With this application, your iPad becomes a window to anywhere, allowing you to view the entire planet in detail. You can also display additional content. In this document, the term "mobile device" refers to the iPad. System Requirements To use Google Earth, you must have: At least 211 MB of free space A WiFi connection if you are using an iPad (Wifi only version). Note - If you are using an iPad (3G version), Google Earth works best with a WiFi connection, as opposed to a 3G or standard data connection. Navigating You can navigate through this 3D view of the globe in several ways: Note that the accuracy of the location shown depends the following: Your specific device - Any iPad may be able to determine your location from your Internet connection.
Display your coordinates and altitude You can personalize how your latitude and longitude coordinates are displayed by choosing Position from the Options menu. Betterizer.