Australia e-Series Community Connect Presentation 13th June 2013

1. Community
Connect
13th June 2013
Mobile Devices & Higher Order Thinking Skills
Penny Bentley
@penpln

2. Blooms Taxonomy
Blooms Digital Taxonomy
Action Verbs
Learning Objectives
Activities
Apps
App Evaluation
Tonight’s Webinar

3. Discussion
• Who is using mobile devices with their students?
• Tell us about your experiences (supported, adequate PD, etc.)
• Give an example of how you’ve used a mobile device in class.
• How do your students respond?
• What model do you use to plan learning objectives?

4. Who was Benjamin Bloom?
Benjamin Bloom
American Educational Psychologist
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
1956
3 Domains of Learning
Cognitive
Affective
Psychomotor
Image: Benjamin Bloom, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License
Blooms Taxonomy
moves the learner from
LOTS
to
HOTS

5. Bloom’s Taxonomy
Verbs
Image: Andrew Churches, Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 License
Blooms Taxonomy 1956 Revised Blooms Taxonomy 2001
Lorin Anderson
Nouns

6. Why Use Bloom’s Taxonomy?
• a framework to guide students from lower to higher order thinking
• use levels and verbs to write learning objectives (what to learn and why)
• plan activities
• select appropriate technology/apps to enhance student learning experience
• correlate assessment to cognitive levels

7. Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
Blending Bloom’s cognitive levels with 21st century digital skills.
Andrew Churches
2007
It’s not about the tools, it’s using the tools to facilitate learning.
What are the contemporary skills we need our students to develop?

8. Remembering
recalling information
Finding/S
earching
Describing/Journaling/Listing
Filing/Retrieving
Bookmarking
Learning Objective: The student is able
to list…
Example Activity: List the 5 food groups
and name 3 foods for each group.

9. Understanding
explaining ideas or concepts
Mind Mapping
Blogging
Podcasting/Explaining
Learning Objective: The student is able
to explain…
Example Activity: Write a simple daily
menu for child, using a range of food
from the 5 groups, explaining why you
chose those foods.

10. Applying
using information in another familiar situation
Running Loading Playing Operating Hacking Uploading Sharing Editing
Games
Uploading &
Exhibiting Photos
Drawing/Showing
Learning Objective: The student is able
to use…
Example Activity: Show students in
your class how you would make a
healthy meal.

11. Analyzing
breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships
Mashing Linking Validating Reverse engineering Cracking
Survey
Graph/Compare
Screencast/Peer
to Peer Learning
Learning Objective: The student is able to
compare…
Example Activity: Survey and compare the
opinions of your class mates about healthy food
they would like stocked in the tuck-shop.

12. Evaluating
justifying a decision or course of action
Networking/Posting/Collaborating
Conferencing
Critiquing the News
Commenting Reviewing Posting Collaborating Networking Testing Debating
Learning Objective: The student is able to
justify his/her opinions…
Example Activity: Organize a debate
about how to overcome global food
shortages.

13. Creating
generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things, problem ,
complex application
Animate
Program/CodeTinker/Invent
Tell Stories
Programming Filming Animating Blogging Mixing Re-mixing Publishing Directing
Broadcasting
Learning Objective: The student is
able to design…
Example Activity: Design an
advertising campaign to sell fruit to
teenagers.

15. Design an Activity
topic
cognitive category
learning objective
activity
app
share

16. The Pedagogy Wheel by Allan
Carrington is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution
3.0 Unported License.

17. App Checklist
What’s important?
bling value
customization
engagement
usability
sharing
reporting/feedback
relevance to learning outcome
thinking skills (Blooms)
unique/different function (SMAR model)
Your Favorite Apps?

18. EVALUATING APPS FOR EDUCATIONAL USE
RUBRIC

19. Thank You for Participating