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| Same Students, New Words |
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| Future Teachers of America |
 New Version | In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. During the 1990's a new group of cognitive psychologists, lead by Lorin Anderson (a former student of Bloom), updated the taxonomy to reflect relevance to 21st century work. The two graphics show the revised and original Taxonomy. Note the change from nouns to verbs associated with each level. Note that the top two levels are essentially exchanged from the traditional to the new version. | 
Old Version
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| Remembering: can the student recall or remember the information? | define, duplicate, list, memorize, recall, repeat, reproduce state | |
| Understanding: can the student explain ideas or concepts? | classify, describe, discuss, explain, identify, locate, recognize, report, select, translate, paraphrase | |
| Applying: can the student use the information in a new way? | choose, demonstrate, dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret, operate, schedule, sketch, solve, use, write. | |
| Analyzing: can the student distinguish between the different parts? | appraise, compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, examine, experiment, question, test. | |
| Evaluating: can the student justify a stand or decision? | appraise, argue, defend, judge, select, support, value, evaluate | |
| Creating: can the student create new product or point of view? | assemble, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, write. | |
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Taxonomy Level
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Activity/Strategy
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Technology Tool
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Rationale
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Remembering
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Recall, list, and define
terms
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PaperView Lite
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This app is a similar to
a document camera and white board used on an iPad. This is a great way for
students to quiz each other on their spelling words; going back and forth
while the other spells it with the “marker” from the program.
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Remembering
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Recall, repeat,
reproduce, memorize
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Look & Learn:
Animals
Vol. 1
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This program costs
money, however it combines science and literacy. This application is
wonderful for preschoolers and kindergartners to memorize different animals
and duplicate the spelling. This app is a useful technology skill for kids
because it connects pictures to sounds and spellings of real-life animals.
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Understanding
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Identify, locate,
classify; labeling of vocabulary terms
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PaperView Lite
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It can also be used for
students to follow along during whole group or small group lessons. Students
can draw/write specific and teacher-directed items. For example, this would
be useful in a science lesson on the human body or plants where students
could diagram bones or the stem of a plant. Allowing students to draw while
listening helps connect information together and creates better
comprehension.
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Understanding
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Classify, select, recognize,
identify
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Motion Math app
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This app costs a $1.99,
but would be great for math centers or a workshop. After learning fractions
and estimation, etc., students need practice with these skills. This app has
simple but interesting pictures that do not overly distract students from the
math problem. The iPad must be moved side-to-side for the fraction number
line to reach the correct answer mark. This makes the app very appealing and
engaging to students. One of the best features in this app is the ability to
see the whole number line on a problem before the student guesses. This is a
great visual for students to understand number line problems and fractions
more easily.
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Applying
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Interpret, sketch,
choose, write
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Popplet
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This is a concept-making
app. It can easily be used in whole group, small group, and individual
activities. This application gets students to type (good skill to practice),
create concept bubbles as needed, and link them together. This is excellent
to teach concept maps, use as a whole class first to learn the program and
have them save/print/email their concept maps as a daily grade in any
subject.
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Applying
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Illustrate, interpret,
operate, sketch, demonstrate
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Slice It!
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Slice It introduces
students to geometry, fractions, and percentages without much instruction.
This directly correlates to the exploration phase of the 5E learning cycle.
Here, students are developing the foundational knowledge for skills they have
not been explicitly taught. Now, students will be given the chance to develop
understanding for the topic before deeply discussing them. This is another
individual activity for students and shares an affinity with equal shapes and
portioning. Using this app is a great way to scaffold student learning.
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Analyzing
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Choose, interpret, demonstrate,
compare, contrast
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Comparative Adjectives
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This app has a library
of vocabulary words where the student/child chooses which picture corresponds
to that adjective. As an excellent Daily 5 center and practice at home, this
is another app using parental interaction. It involves listening to reading
as the question is posed to compare and contrast pictures of things.
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Analyzing
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Appraise, compare,
contrast, distinguish, examine
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Running Record
Calculator
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Although this app costs
money, it would be great for a reading center. After testing it a few times
and making sure it came up with the same running record data as the teacher,
it would be safe for the students to use it individually. The app emails
and/or saves the running record data. Emails could be sent to the teacher and
parent as another form of communication. It provides percentages, word count,
words per minute, and time. This will easily show student progress over time
with the electronic running records.
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Evaluating
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Assessment, Self Check,
Exit Slips
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Socrative: Teacher and
Student App
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This program allows the
teacher to give quizzes electronically and receive results via email.
Students can also know whether they got the question right or wrong as they
are answering questions. This program gives automatic grades and marks
problems correct or incorrect in a spreadsheet format. There are previously
made quizzes to use or teachers can create their own with the correct choices
marked. It is beneficial for teachers and students.
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Evaluating
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Argue, defend, judge,
evaluate, support
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TallyPad
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This app is less that a
dollar and can be used throughout class time. It creates data polls and
allows students to ask their own questions. This could be part of a daily job
for a student to poll the class on what toy they want, their lunch choice, if
they are left or right handed. Instead of Daily Data, this can be used for
students to illustrate data from a self-constructed question and take two
minutes of math to present it. Student will share their data and explain, or
interpret, its results with support.
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Creating
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Constructing a
personalized presentation of a skill to prove comprehension and application
on a topic; develop
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Prezi/Prezi Viewer app
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Prezi is a great way for
students to develop their own presentation in a fun way. It is allows
students the chance to be creative while compiling what they learned on a
certain topic into a fun presentation. The ability to share information is an
important life skills students can learn early using this program.
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Creating
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Design, write, assemble
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Photo Card App
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This app uses early
education skills such as addressing a letter or postcard, composing a
message, and using stamps. This would be a great assessment piece after
students create a post card. They can be used at the holidays to share trips,
after a social studies lesson (travel or back in time messages), and for
general composition practice. This would work well as a Daily 5 center for
Work on Writing.
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