Friday, January 29, 2010

Jan 27 - Notes

09/27/2010

Perception

·Our senses help us learn and remember our world.
·We gain experiences through using our senses.
· Our five senses
1. Touch
2. Taste
3. Smell
4. Sight
5. Hearing
· Perception is relative, not absolute.
· Learning is most concrete when we use multiple senses.
· Procedural (muscle) memory.
-Riding a bike.
-Driving a car.
-Dribbling a ball.
·Read page 26 in text.

Bloom's Taxonomy
·Has been around since 1956.
·Benjamin Bloom.

>Knowledge
>Understanding/Comprehension
>Application
>Analysis
>Synthesis
>Evaluation

·Have to know and give examples for the test.
·Used in understanding and testing.

Bloom's Triangle

Bloom"s New Taxonomy:
>Analysis
>Evaluating
>Remember
>Understanding
>Applying
>Creating

New Bloom's Taxonomy

Great Link on Bloom's

Bloom's Resources

Appropriate Software
-Meets curricular needs.
-Always choose software before hardware.
-No dill and kill
-Should be open-ended.

·Effective Software
-Appeals to many senses.
-Must be toaster technology (easy to use).
-Must be interesting.
-Based on concrete experiences.
-Appeal to multiple intelligences and the learning modalities.

·Learning modalities
1. Visual
2. Kinaesthetic
3. Auditory.

·Software should be based on what they have already learned.

Thanks to Tamara for this posting!

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