INTRODUCTION This is the fourth in a series of resources outlining apps, Web sites, and ideas for using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy to support teaching and learning. This resource deals with Android apps for the fourth of Bloom's levels, analyzing. The previous posts in the series were: An overview of Bloom's and apps to support the remembering level Apps to support the understanding level Apps to support... More →
Introduction Bloom's Revised Taxonomy is a pedagogical model we are all familiar with. This is the third in a series of resources outlining apps, Web sites, and ideas for using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy to support teaching and learning. This resource deals with Android apps for the third of Bloom's levels, applying. The previous posts in the series were: An overview of Bloom's and apps to support... More →
INTRODUCTION This is the fifth in a series of resources outlining apps, Web sites, and ideas for using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy to support teaching and learning. This resource deals with Android apps for the fifth of Bloom's levels, evaluating. The previous posts in the series were: An overview of Bloom's and apps to support the remembering level Apps to support the understanding level Apps to support the... More →
INTRODUCTION If you were an education major in college, you are probably very familiar with Bloom's Taxonomy. In the image below, on the left, is the original Bloom’s Taxonomy, developed in the late 1950’s by Benjamin Bloom. On the right, is the Revised Blooms Taxonomy, published in 2000 by Anderson, a student of Bloom’s, and Krathwhol. The names of the levels were turned into action... More →
INTRODUCTION This is the sixth in a series of resources outlining apps, Web sites, and ideas for using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy to support teaching and learning. This resource deals with Android apps for the highest of Bloom's levels, creating. The previous posts in the series were: An overview of Bloom's and apps to support the remembering level Apps to support the understanding level Apps to support... More →
INTRODUCTION Last month, I provided an overview of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and include a set of Android apps and Web sites that could be used to support teaching and learning at the remembering level. If you did not read that first installment, please take a moment to do so! UNDERSTANDING LEVEL The next cognitive level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy is the understanding level. The understanding level involves... More →
As any seasoned educator will tell you, formative assessments are key to steering instruction in the right direction. They provide valuable insight into what concepts need to be reviewed or even re-taught. Many believe though that using formative assessments to routinely check for understanding can take away from valuable class time. Socrative is a free and easy way to develop and administer exit tickets and quizzes to your students regardless... More →
Introduction An infographic is a visual representation of information. You find them everywhere from the front page of major newspapers, to the back pages of edtech journals. The process of creating an infographic includes multiple literacies-- there is the information literacy component of searching, collecting, and citing information to be used in the infographic, there is the media literacy component of deciding what type of infographic to create to... More →
Comics Head is a comic-based storytelling app that is available for both Android and iOS tablets. It is full featured and easy to use, and the items can be shared almost anywhere! There is both a free lite version (which has a watermark) and and a $3.99 full version available in the Google Play Store. How it works Your first pick a blank panel template or templates that are already... More →
Life just gets easier and easier the more I investigate what is available for teachers. Don’t get me wrong, life was good when all I had was my Xperia Z and the Easy Voice Recorder app. I was able to record my students while I conducted informal reading inventories and then send these files to Google Drive. Recently, I ran into a problem... More →