Digital Technology and Higher Order Skills

Using Technology to Support Higher Order Skills
Ollie Bray
National Adviser
Emerging Technologies in Learning
Education Scotland
www.educationscotland.gov.uk

Warm up…

“If I eat crunchy nut corn flakes but they are no longer crunchy, are they still crunchy nut corn flakes?”

“Is a Pineapple an Apple?”

“Is a broken down
car parked?”
Ian Gilbert

www.thunks.co.uk
(Questions to make your brain go ouch!)

“Google can teach you history BUT it can’t teach you to love history”
Sir John Jones
(SLF 2011)

What to think rather than how to think
Culture change…

Bloom’staxonomy
Higher Order Thinking Skills
Lower Order Thinking Skills
Benjamin Bloom (1956)

Bloom’s (revised) taxonomy
Anderson & Krathwoh (2000)

verbs
nouns

Bloom's as a learning process
1) Before we can understand a concept we have to remember it
2) Before we can apply the concept we must understand it
3) Before we analyse it we must be able to apply it
4) Before we can evaluate its impact we must have analysed it
5) Before we can create we must have remembered, understood, applied, analysed, and evaluated it

Designing, Constructing, Planning, Producing, Inventing, Making & Building
Creating
Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, Experimenting, judging, testing, Detecting, Monitoring
Evaluation
Analysing
Comparing, organising, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, structuring, integrating
Applying
Understanding
Implementing, carrying out, using & executing
Remembering
Interpreting, Exemplifying, Summarising, Inferring, Paraphrasing, Classifying, Comparing, & Explaining
Recognising, Listing, Describing, Identifying, Retrieving, Naming, Recitation & Locating/Finding

How technology has changed things…
Shop
Socialize
Finance
Play

Designing, Constructing, Planning, Producing, Inventing, Making, Building, Programming, Filming, Animating, Blogging, Video Blogging, Mixing, Remixing, Wiki-ing, Publishing, Videocasting, Podcasting, Directing/producing
Creating
Checking, Hypothesising, Critiquing, Experimenting, Judging, Testing, Detecting, Monitoring (Blog/vlog), commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating, networking, reflecting, (Alpha & beta) testing
Evaluation
Analysing
Comparing, organising, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, structuring, integrating, mashing, linking, reverseengineering, cracking, mind-mapping
Applying
Understanding
Implementing, carrying out, using, executing, doing, running, loading, playing, operating, hacking, uploading, sharing, editing.
Remembering
Interpreting, Exemplifying, Summarising, Inferring, Paraphrasing, Classifying, Comparing, Explaining, Advanced searches, Boolean searches, Blog journalling, Twittering, Categorising and tagging, Commenting, Annotating, Subscribing.
Recognising, Listing, Describing, Identifying, Retrieving, Naming, Recitation, Locating/Finding, Bullet pointing, Highlighting, Bookmarking, Social networking, Social bookmarking, Favouriting/local bookmarking, Searching, Googling

Digital
Taxonomy
V1.0

Digital
Taxonomy
V2.0

Understanding

'This article needs additional citation for verification'
'This article reads like an advertisement’
'This article contradicts itself’
'This article contradicts another article’
‘The factual accuracy is disputed’

Evaluating

Creating

Educators need to understand what digital tools can do…
This is not the same as how to use every digital tool

twitter.com/ukwarcabinet

Tools to achieve, recall, understanding, application, analysis, evaluation and creativity

“Collaboration is not a 21st Century Skill, it is a 21stCentury Essential”
Collaboration

Key traits or abilities in 21st Century Employees (according to Google)
“Marshalling and understanding the available evidence isn’t useful unless you can effectively communicate your conclusions.”
Communication
Skills
“Virtually every project at Google is run by a small team. People need to work well together and perform up to the team's expectations.”
Team
Players

Knowledge is important

So are teachers!

Scaffolding

Remembering
Recalling specific information (Recall or recognition of specific information).
Recognising, Listing, Describing, Identifying, Retrieving, Naming, Recitation, Locating/Finding, Bullet pointing, Highlighting, Bookmarking, Social networking, Social bookmarking, Favouriting/local bookmarking, Searching & Googling

Understanding

Understanding
Explaining/defining ideas or concepts (Understanding of given information).
Interpreting, Exemplifying, Summarising, Inferring, Paraphrasing, Classifying, Comparing, Explaining, Advanced searches, Boolean searches, Blog journalling, Twittering, Categorisingand tagging, Commenting, Annotating & Subscribing.

Applying
Using information, concepts and ideas in another familiar situation (Using strategies, concepts, principles and theories in new situations).
Implementing, carrying out, using, executing, doing, running, loading, playing, operating, hacking, uploading, sharing & editing.

Dr Marcus de Sautoy

http://primarygamesarena.com/

Sim City

Analysing
Breaking information into parts/components to explore/develop/construct understandings and relationships (Breaking information down into its component elements).
Comparing, organising, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, structuring, integrating, mashing, linking, reverseengineering, cracking & mind-mapping.

Copyright

Evaluating
Justifying a decision, solution, answer or course of action (Judge/evaluate/analysethe value of ideas, concepts, materials and methods by developing/constructing and applying standards and criteria).
Checking, Hypothesising, Critiquing, Experimenting, Judging, Testing, Detecting, Monitoring (Blog/vlog), commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating, networking, reflecting & (Alpha & beta) testing.

Creating
Generating/creating new ideas,products, or ways of viewing things (Putting together/combining ideas, concepts or elements to develop/construct/build an original idea or engage/stimulate in creative thinking).
Designing, Constructing, Planning, Producing, Inventing, Devising, Making, Building, Programming, Filming, Animating, Blogging, Video Blogging, Mixing, Remixing, Wiki-ing, Publishing, Videocasting, Podcasting & Directing/producing.

Games design

There is an
App for that…

What impact does technology have on the skills agenda?

Does technology make highly skilled jobs less skilled?

"...technology is not going to make teaching easier, it's going to make it different."
Chris Kennedy
Superintendent of Schools
West Vancouver School District

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Ollie Bray
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www.educationscotland.gov.uk

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