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My knowledge about Bloom's taxonomy and Marzano's research will affect my lesson planning in a big way. I can see the importance of implementing the new Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy as a way to prepare my students for the changing digital world. Although technology seems to be ingrained in our students at an increasingly younger age, classroom uses for these technologies still require teachers to prepare lessons to help students integrate technology into their learning as well. Blogs and Wikis…

If I were to suggest an addition to Bloom’s Taxonomy, I would include sharing/collaborating as a Key Term. Although several of the digital tools and uses in the digital taxonomy imply sharing, they do not explicitly say so. Sharing and collaborating with others requires some…

This week my online technology class at Regis University did a comparison between the revised Bloom's Taxonomy and the new Digital Bloom's Taxonomy. I was intrigued by the new verbs that were introduced as part of this study. It made me reflect on how I could integrate some of these exciting changes into my classroom.

Being a third-grade teacher and looking forward to the introduction of, The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), testing Colorado…

• How will your knowledge about Bloom's taxonomy and Marzano's research affect your lesson planning?

While I learned about Bloom’s taxonomy under its original state, the main idea has remained the same until the addition of new verbs to help implement instructional…

By Richard Cole

Bloom’s Taxonomy has become an important part of my planning process.  My school has a leadership team that works with an outside company to make instructional improvements.  Our current goal is to create objectives that require students to complete tasks at a higher depth of knowledge.  As a part of our training on improving depth of knowledge, we have done a lot of work with Bloom’s Taxonomy and have made it a regular part of our planning process.  Previously, I had used Bloom’s to plan,…

How Bloom & Marzano Have Impacted My Teaching

Because I received my teaching license in an unconventional way, through the Alternative Teacher Licensure Program, I did not have a strong understanding of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Marzano’s Instructional Strategies.  Even though they were mentioned during my alternative program, I did not begin to understand how important they were to the learning process until I started my masters program at Regis…

 During our Frogger Programming Unit, we use many of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy and Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.  Students are taught computational thinking patterns that hit on higher order thinking skills like applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.  For instance, the computational thinking pattern of ABSORB is used in programming when one agent absorbs another agent.  

As a class we discuss real world examples of absorbing, for instance when a car enters a tunnel or a…

By studying Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised and Digital) and Marzano’s theories on classroom instruction, I have found many ways that I can implement their theories into my current job as well as possible classroom situations. 

By reading Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy theories I realize that I need to try and get my students to higher order thinking skills to make sure they understand what is being taught and to help them develop in their learning. In my current position I am often asked to give…

Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy vs. Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

               Having had ample opportunity to explore Marzano’s Nine Instructional Strategies in my university classes, I was pleased to start my new teaching assignment this year with this tool in my toolbox. My school district has placed a fine focus on the Teaching-Learning Cycle (TLC) and even established a model specifically for schools in our district. Based heavily on Bloom’s taxonomy, the WSD3 TLC framework asks all teachers to create learning intentions to complement our…

Investigating Bloom’s Taxonomy…

The clutter and noise that technology brings to education can be a bit overwhelming for teachers. Deciding upon the best tools for your daily tasks will definitely impact the improvement of your workflow. That is why you have to know how you can benefit from the tool you are going to use. Thus, for all educators which consider using a form builder to help them streamline school related activities, here is a handful of …

Here is the link to my Wordle Word Cloud about Wikis:

www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/7434085/Wikis

Here it is attached as a PDF also:

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I love the idea of bring-your-own-device (BYOD), but it can be a nightmare! I recently taught a class entitled Cloud Computing and Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers. The class was held in a wireless conference room, but the attendees had to bring their own devices. Keep in mind that the students in the class were teachers, most of whom were using their school-issued computers. School-issued computers! School issued computers that…

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Instructional Practices in Language Learning Process

Second language instruction can be conceptualized as falling into two broad categories: meaning-focused instruction and form-focused instruction (Long,1996; Ellis, 2001). Meaning-focused instruction is characterized by communicative language teaching and involves no direct, explicit attention to language form. Form-focused instruction generally treats language as an object to be studied through discrete lessons targeting specific…

The research work with the title "Criteria for evaluating an educational blog as a scientific one" was presented by Vasilis Sotiroudas at the 7th International Conference in Open and Distance Learning in Athens.

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