Tonight I was playing around with GoAnimate and created this short clip. This is a great website, it could be used for a range of student activities including, short stories, recounts and to create social stories for students with ASD.
GoAnimate.com: My blog by SarahMay2
Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!
Monday, November 29, 2010
Digital Video
The following video is a short presentation I helped my daughter create to show one of the benefits of having a uniform policy at school. This video was made using iMovie.
During the year, I supported a student, with a disability, in Yr 11 English to create different presentations using iMovie. One presentation, "This is me, and my community", showcased the student's link to various places in and around the community. The benefits of recording included, time to rehearse and view the video, trimming sequences to eliminate pauses between speech and the use of overlays, images and music. The final presentation was fantastic and the student proudly presented the video to the class. We also included a bloopers section of out-takes.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom’s taxonomy is a framework which involves lower order and higher order thinking skills. Lower order thinking skills include, remembering, understanding and applying while higher order thinking skills include analysing, evaluating and creating.
Within Education Queensland there is a focus on schools including higher order thinking in their curriculum. In reference to Queensland teachers aligning with the National Curriculum, Queensland Studies Authority (2010) states, the Learning P-12 approach includes “content and achievement standards and assessment that focus on depth of learning and higher order thinking based upon high expectations and standards for all students.”
The following information is from Think, Organise, Write, a book from Quill and Townsend, who describe the different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy and the skills involved. They also suggest a range of graphic organisers for students to use to plan and write at each level of thinking.
Remembering
Remembering - This is the easiest thinking level where you need to show you have remembered or learned information. Skills at this level involve describing, identifying, listing, retrieving, examining, matching, retelling and naming. Use the following graphic organisers to plan and write at this level of thinking:
- Note-taking table
- Story Map
- Time-line
Understanding
This type of thinking activity shows that you understand what you have learned. Skills at this level involve summarising, classifying or comparing. Graphic Organisers:
- Concept Map - Spider Map
- Concept Map - Hierarchical Map
- Table
Applying
Applying means to transfer something learned to a new situation i.e. to make use of information in some way. skills at this level involve implementing, constructing, examining, classifying, illustrating, solving or completing. Graphic Organisers:
- Flow Chart
- Persuasion Map
- Storyboard
- Y - chart
Analysing
Analysing is to examine something in detail in order to discover its meaning or essential featured, to break something down into its components. Skills at this level involve comparing, contrasting, inquiring, surveying, grouping, arranging, interpreting, investigating or finding. Graphic Organisers:
- Venn diagram
- Ranking ladder
- Sociogram
- For and Against
- SWOT analysis
- Cause and effect organiser (Fishbone Map)
Evaluating
Evaluating/judging is justifying a decision or new course of action; making judgements and thinking hard to support your opinions. Skills at this level involve interpreting, critiquing , judging, hypothesising, monitoring, measuring, appraising, rating, scoring, assessing or testing. Graphic Organisers:
- PMI chart
- Balance Bar/ Scale of Bias
- Effects Wheel
- Reflective Questioning
- Socratic Questioning
Creating
Creating/producing generates new ideas, ways to design products or new ways to do things. Skills at this level involve composing, integrating, proposing, arranging, planning, designing, assembling, constructing, inventing, substituting and speculating. Graphic Organisers:
- Reframing Matrix
- SCAMPER Chart
- Lotus Diagram
References
QSA. 2010. Transition to the Australian curriculum: Frequently asked questions. Retrieved Nov 28 from http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/12474.html
Quill, A & Townsend, A. 2009 Think, Organise, Write. Farr Books. Wilston, Queensland.
April James, posted some interesting information about Bloom's Digital Taxonomy, created by Andrew Churches. Follow the link to find out more:
Engage Me!
I came across this clip on youtube which basically sums up the reasons for studying E-learning, to engage students and create positive learning experiences using tools they are familiar with.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Powerpoint
Powerpoint is commonly used by students in the classroom for presenting their work. Their presentations can be saved as a movie WMV file and uploaded to their blog. This is a quick example of what can be achieved.
Wikis in the classroom
Wikis are websites that allow accepted users to add, edit and update information. The teacher can control the wiki regarding the input and access, they also have the ability to track who is contributing to the wiki. There are many uses for wikis in the classroom most of which incorporate collabarative learning.
One interesting point I have seen from the use of wikis is the need to use organising frameworks so learners have an opportunity for inquiry and higher order thinking. For example, the Expert Jigsaw where students focus on a segment of material or part of a topic, or using the thinkers keys to engage students in a range of creative thinking tasks encourage higher order thinking. (Kruse, 2009)
References
Kruse, D. 2009. Thinking Strategies for the Inquiry classroom. Curriculum Corporation. Carlton South, Victoria.
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