There are many technological ways a teacher can incorporate Bloom's Taxonomy into their grade level. The Taxonomy prompts the students to use higher order thinking skills when they are learning new information. Teachers can use Bloom's Taxonomy to assess students on multiple learning skills. One way teachers can do this is by using interactive activities that demonstrate all levels of the Taxonomy. Teachers can introduce new knowledge to the students in a blog by using a slide show, or an informational video. These videos can be posted as a visual guide for students which can include information about a new subject. A blog can also be useful to help teachers check for understanding and comprehension. Teachers can ask students to journal about information that is presented in class. Following the journalism, students can be asked to type their journals onto their blogs. Also, teachers can submit a short multiple choice quiz, crossword puzzle, or information websites to the blog. Students can use these websites to practice reading, math facts, or information.

Research

During the internet research of our project, I showed Abby the basic principles of finding a search engine website. I demonstrated and modeled inquiry-based learning by showing Abby how to type a topic into the website and then I showed her the specific links. We used www.google.com, www.yahoo.com, www.teachertube.com to find information about the sun. The internet provided a vast amount of information on our subject and research questions. Each time we found information for Abby's blog, we copied and pasted the websites on a googledocs work cited. I worked along side Abby, allowing her to maniluplate the mouse and click on the sites. I aided her with typing out some of the longer topics into the search engine. I believe that this will aid to further inquiry-based learning by using the internet.

Service Project

The process of inquiry-based learning was very interesting. Abby, the child that I worked with, was automatically interested in learning more about our topic. We sat down to think about our topic and automatically originated our essential question and unit question. After we formed the main questions, we thought of specific questions that my student wanted to learn more about. By already having a base knowledge about the sun and the solar system, Abby was able to expand her mind to inquire about different aspects of the our chosen topic. With the base of our project laid out, we will now be able to perform further research.

Powerful Beliefs: A digital short.

By using digital storytelling, a teacher can involve children in the learning process. I believe that making videos and voice threads are interesting ways for children to comprehend what they are learning. Also, by having these videos available on a common website such as teacher tube, other children can have the opportunity to view other clips. This allows the children to practice inquiry-based learning. They are able to search for topics that interest them from a broad base of topics.

The information in our video is based off of a combination of each of our unit questions. We put our individual questions together to create one unit question.

"How are beliefs portrayed through art, literature, and music by people in power."

By combining our questions we were able to relate certain times in history to power being expelled through art, literature, and music. We focused our question on two major historically power people. The power portrayed by these two people greatly affected people of the world.

To construct this video Katie and I used a digital still photo camera. We uploaded our clips to Windows Moviemaker and pieced them together in a short video series. As an added effect to our clips, we maneuvered the camera in a panning motion to activate the shot. We used short transitions because our dialog was linked together. I believe that an audience will enjoy our video because it is informative and to the point.

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Spreadsheet sample

Spreadsheets are a great tool to use for Inquiry-Based learning. Spreadsheets allow students to aquire and imput data. A good use for spreadsheets would be with a project that allows students to find information online and imput the data to find an answer. These projects can be based off of subjects such as math, science, or history. As an introduction to spreadsheets, students can be asked to tally how many girls and boys are in the classroom. Then, the student can imput their data into a spreadsheet. They will be able to insert a formula that allows the students to find the difference in number of the two genders. This can also be used by having children gather various information from their peers such as a list of sports and everyones preference.

An in depth project that can be used to allow the children to use spreadsheets would be to introduce information about historical dates. Children can research dates of different battles and what state they occured. The students can input their information state by state and create a bar graph to show the range of data.

Questions to ask students while working on grade sheets would be:

1. How can spreadsheets be used to make out work easier?
2. What kind of information can we imput into a spreadsheet?
3. How do spreadsheets help us learn?

Response

SlideShare response.

Belief Systems

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Belief Systems

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