Edis Knoop's Blog – January 2014 Archive (4)

This week’s research focus on the subjects of Social Networking and Digital Citizenship has uncovered a few realizations regarding my use of tech tools that I need to implement immediately.

After discussing our district AUP with my assistant principal and my concerns that our students do not sign the document annually, she was able to clarify a few things for me. First, students sign the AUP as incoming freshmen or new incoming students. When the district revises the document, all…

In my discussion with my District Instructional Technology Specialist, I found that the current AUP has been in force since before 1999, but the major authors responsible for the document’s inception no longer work for the district. As such, the AUP is now revised/reviewed as a “result of new technologies (social media, mobile devices), new electronic/technology options we offer students/staff (Google Apps), and changes we make to infrastructure” (Finch, 2014). The current AUP has not been…

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…

               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…