- What types of skills and thought processes are considered higher-order?
This last week in class we began to discuss what type of higher-order thinking skills happen when dealing with technology.
We discussed many types of thoughts on this. One of my favorites was Blooms Taxonomy. Blooms taxonomy deals with steps. There are six steps, they are:
- Remembering
- Understanding
- Applying
- Analyzing
- Evaluating
- Creating
In each of these categories we begin to find ways in which technology plays a role within each verb. If we look at remembering we can use several means to help kids remember facts. For example, in creating, we may ask them to create a video or PowerPoint about their favorite book. We may have them type up a compare and contrast or even create one on Google docs for all to share. Each stage helps us to step up the challenges we give to students.
What I really like about it was that it reminded me of the activities we learned in my ESL endorsement courses this previous year. Each stage of Blooms Taxonomy matched a stage for teaching a lesson to ESL students. I thought it would be great to look at those old lessons and now introduce technology into them.
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