Blog 8
This chapter focused on adaptive learning technologies, these are technologies that are allow teachers to teach students who may have special needs and in order to learn the technology helps adapt the lesson to their specific needs or learning style. This helps the teacher customize their lesson and objectives and can adapt better as the student progresses though the course. There are many technologies out there whether your student is a visual, kinesthetic, auditory type of learner, or any other type of learner. These technologies include Diigo, alternative keyboards, scan/read systems, and concept-mapping software, just to name a few. The problem I see with using adaptive learning technologies is now that students are being catered in the way they teach, they may not be on the same pace now and that could raise some difficulties for teachers. Another thing would be keeping students from getting too distracted from these technologies.
For each level of Bloom's taxonomy I'd use powerpoint in the following ways. For Knowledge, simply having information on a slide that reinforces something that students learned beforehand demonstrates this. For comprehension I could show a slide that contains a concept map that ties in the current lesson with other previous ones and compares them and relates them so that students can comprehend the big picture. For application, I could use Powerpoint in a quiz-like format combining slides that poses a question and slides that have the correct answer, of course I wouldn't reveal the answer until students can give me the correct one first. I could also have them create their own presentation. For analysis, I could have my students be assigned a particular subject area, let's say famous texts from the 19th century, and have them create a presentation that analyzes that text. For synthesis, students creating a presentation have taken information from other sources and composed it in a new format of their own in the form of a powerpoint. For evaluation, students who compose they're own presentations now must critique their peers' powerpoints and evaluate their information and research and the validity of it.
https://tech.ed.gov/stories/
The Department of Education's education technology website allows teachers to read specific stories about technology being used in classrooms across the country. It includes a blog and tech resources so teachers can stay up to date on education technology.
For each level of Bloom's taxonomy I'd use powerpoint in the following ways. For Knowledge, simply having information on a slide that reinforces something that students learned beforehand demonstrates this. For comprehension I could show a slide that contains a concept map that ties in the current lesson with other previous ones and compares them and relates them so that students can comprehend the big picture. For application, I could use Powerpoint in a quiz-like format combining slides that poses a question and slides that have the correct answer, of course I wouldn't reveal the answer until students can give me the correct one first. I could also have them create their own presentation. For analysis, I could have my students be assigned a particular subject area, let's say famous texts from the 19th century, and have them create a presentation that analyzes that text. For synthesis, students creating a presentation have taken information from other sources and composed it in a new format of their own in the form of a powerpoint. For evaluation, students who compose they're own presentations now must critique their peers' powerpoints and evaluate their information and research and the validity of it.
https://tech.ed.gov/stories/
The Department of Education's education technology website allows teachers to read specific stories about technology being used in classrooms across the country. It includes a blog and tech resources so teachers can stay up to date on education technology.
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